Rays may nail World Series, but will they sink TV ratings?

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Can our American League championship-winning Tampa Bay Rays get any respect from the national media? First, some commentators keep saying the Rays are from Tampa, instead of St. Petersburg. Then TBS screws up and drops the first 20 minutes of...

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[bozey45]

there was a router failure in Atlanta that caused the first 20 minutes to not be aired. Nothing could be aired from the Trop because of the router failure at headquarters. Get your facts straight before some wild accusation.

[Bschneider]

His facts are straight; TBS did screw up.. the router failure was TBS's fault in Atlanta. There is no denying that. Who do you think screwed up?

[bozey45]

then wording it to say "they dropped the first 20 minutes" makes it sound as if they did it on purpose. They didn't drop the first 20 minutes. Technical failures can happen with any equipment anytime, regardless of whether it's a playoff series or regular game. When it happens not anything you can do; there is not a perfect system yet and probably never will be. these tech failures have happened to probably all networks at one time or another. People just need to get over it, most don't know what's involved in telecasting a game thse days anyway. so when somehting happens turn on the radio, maybe its there somewhere.