Dodgers on the Tube — in Bakersfield
Time Warner's Billion-Dollar Deal Leaves Cox in the Dust
HOT STOVE LEAGUE PREDICTS: Okay, so I made a big, big mistake by moving to Santa Barbara instead of Bakersfield. I know, I know, I’ve poked fun at B-Town, “the Paris of the San Joaquin Valley,” its high crime rate, its killer air quality. But if I lived there, I could look forward to doing something Santa Barbarans aren’t likely to be doing this year: watching the Dodgers on TV.
I pay a huge tariff to Cox every month for the opportunity to tune in on hundreds of unwatchable junk programs, unless you consider Swamp People quality fare. But does Cox put the Boys in Blue on the tube? No.
Why? Money. Billions of it. All regular, normal people in Southern California want to do is sit back after a day of earning enough to pay the IRS and relax watching the Dodgers — except for the unfortunates who cater to the Angels and Frisco (there, I said it, and I’m not sorry) Gintz.
