Please sign this petition for more Baseball in the UK

[dagenhamjim]

Hey Brothers please can you help us here in the Uk sign a petition to have more Baseball games shown in the Uk. Let me explain our tv is mostly free (not including the TV licence) and one of these channels is 'five' which as the petition explains has been showing Baseball games for some time.
However there is another way to watch Tv, its called Sky and its beamed down from above, owned by Rupert Murdoch and its got a lot of cash as it charges supscription and its a one hell of a lot of cash per month.
To cut a long story short every time something gets popular on free T.V, Sky TV flexes its muscles and starts waving money about and next thing you know, you can only watch your fav show if you subsribe to Sky ( about $66.00 per month to get basic channels with the sports channels and you cant subscribe to sports only, you have to have the basic package as well. )
Its done this with our national game Soccer, with Cricket and even with the brill show 'Lost' now its gonna do the same with Baseball.
Please Brothers will you follow the link below and sign the petition, thank you in advance!

Jim 

Here is the Link:   http://www.petitiononline.com/bbon5/petition.html

[Tyler]

Jim, I'll sign the petition for you since I LOVE baseball, but I don't think they will switch it since it really is about money.

Here's a link you should check out to watch Baseball talk shows for free http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/radio/index.jsp

Here's a link to check out MLB.TV.  For $90 US you can watch EVERY game this season from your computer.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/mlbtv.jsp

[dagenhamjim]

Thanks Tyler I realy appreciate that, but from the bottom of my heart i know your right. i bet the deal has already been signed, sealed and delivered. What makes me so mad is Sky TV is 100% monopoly. My Brother used to live in Evansville and was always changing cable companies for the best deal. Here in the Uk you cant as you either have Sky or you dont, there are no alterntives!

[Tyler]

Thanks Tyler I realy appreciate that, but from the bottom of my heart i know your right. i bet the deal has already been signed, sealed and delivered. What makes me so mad is Sky TV is 100% monopoly. My Brother used to live in Evansville and was always changing cable companies for the best deal. Here in the Uk you cant as you either have Sky or you dont, there are no alterntives!

I hear ya.  I work in the cable industry for my "day job."  I think you'll be very happy with how technology will progress over the next couple of years in the areas of watching TV over the internet.

[dagenhamjim]

Cant see it happening hear Tyler, we are years behind our European brothers in Broadband speed. Thanks to lack of investment by BT (British Telecom) another 100% monopoly that runs our telephone cables and exchanges we are still relying on '1950's' copper cables for our connection.
I have a deal with my broadband company that I can have a broadband speed of up to 8 mbps lol I am lucky if i get 1.8 mbps!