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They also played the King of the Hill remix during the game too

little more from mlbtraderumors.com

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The Astros are getting increased calls about their pitchers after yesterday’s comments from Luhnow, reports MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart (on Twitter). The goal remains the same, says McTaggart: MLB-ready offense.

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#InLunhowWeTrust

DP

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blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2014/07/comcast-rockets-and-astros-file-dueling-secret-motions/

Interesting tidbit from the ongoing legal battle between the Astros/Rockets and Comcast:

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Monday’s paper trail is the latest in the continuing dispute over what apparently is the Astros’ and Rockets’ efforts to reorganize CSN Houston with a new investor that is not Comcast – and that, in fact, is very likely a Comcast competitor such as DirecTV, AT&T or both.

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There has long been a rumor that AT&T/DirecTV wants to create a sports media network. Would this 1.) Help get the teams' games distributed; and 2.) Would this still help the Astros (and Rockets) in their long term financial success?

So based on my interpretation of that above summary this is essentially on Comcast now?

I'd hate to sign up with Comcast and that happen. At least I'm not getting a contract

Give it to me in layman's terms, because I have no idea how a lot of this stuff works:

If I have Comcast right now and this deal goes through, am I ****ed?

It's still a huge cluster****. The buyer wants the four person board to approve the offer by Thursday, but Comcast (who has 2 of the 4 board members) wants to know who the buyer is before they approve the offer. The court ordered the buyer must reveal it's identity to comcast by Thursday, so that's obviously why they want an agreement before they have to reveal to comcast which competitor is buying their network at a discount. Comcast wants a delay until next week after they're notified who the buyer is. That will lead to more delays and protesting. The Rockets/Astros are trying to pull a fast one here. Hopefully it works.

Comcast admitted they don't care about the network as much as they care about their company. They don't want a competitor like Directv or AT&T scooping up one of their assets for pennies on the dollar.

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Give it to me in layman's terms, because I have no idea how a lot of this stuff works:

If I have Comcast right now and this deal goes through, am I ****ed?

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I think so

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They don't want a competitor like Directv or AT&T scooping up one of their assets for pennies on the dollar

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Then they shouldn't have shat the bed on this whole thing!!!!

Let's not forget. The vast majority of this blame goes to the 46% owner of the network....... Jim Crane

Dammit!

Crane paid $326 million for this ****show from Drayton McClane who set the whole thing up and managed to sell it off before anybody knew anything about it.

Crane also is NOW the majority owner of the network. So he can fix it if he wants to bad enough

46% is not a majority. Crane does not have a controlling stake.

You don't think Les wants this done? Reports have stated in the past that crane is the one holding this up because he wants a lucrative amount per subscriber. My contacts still at the Rockets have told me that les isn't happy with crane at all. His fault for giving astros 46% to his 20 something I guess

My guess is that Crane doesn't want to be involved at all with a network that doesn't pay him. The entire reason that CSN is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is that the Astros were going to flush the bad money down the drain and re-sell their rights, and Comcast filed bankruptcy to keep the Astros locked into the network.

I also suppose that buying his portion out is probably a sticky wicket, seeing as that would ruin the amount of content available, the Astros being the lion's share of that (which is why the Astros own 47%), plus the fact that I doubt they're going to want to pay him the $326 million for his share that it was supposedly worth when he bought the team, and there may be legal issues on what these parties knew about the value of the network when Crane bought his share.

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So if the network is sold, will the production and staff change? Because distribution aside, the production quality is excellent. Much better than fsn.

Looking good this inning

Keeke

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So if the network is sold, will the production and staff change? Because distribution aside, the production quality is excellent. Much better than fsn.

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I would say it's a definite possibility that the new owner wants their own people involved. I doubt the channel just changes in name alone.

Kiké.

I really hat how it's censored if you use a regular e

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Kiké is the man

I like that kid

57 k's in the last 39 innings for Fields (13.2 k/9)

How you do that different e?

This bullpen never ceases to make it interesting

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Dammit qualls

Aaaaaaaaaand now it's tied.

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How you do that different e?

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On iPhone, hold down the e

Qualls is a piece of chit.

Bullpen