MLB to Small Town America: Drop Dead

They would always promote the grudge matches, which you could only see live. They were never televised. I'm sure it was to goose the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium.

 

Geez, I remember when the announcer, Dick Lane, said that Danny O'Reilly, captain of the Detroit Devils, owned a pet shop in Reseda. I thought about the expense of him going to home games.

 

See also: Good girl Joanie Weston vs. bad girl Ann Cavello.

 

You missed the halcyon days of televised bowling. Billy Welu, who proceeded Burton, was one of the best color announcers I have ever heard. Burton was hired after Welu died at 41.

The PBA was highly rated. That is why ABC had Schenkel, who was their number one announcer, working it. If memory serves only football got higher ratings. The reason that bowling was dropped from television was not the ratings but the demographics. A lower income group followed the sport.

 

Same reason professional billiards has been relegated to online streaming. The PBA has at least rekindled some fire by signing a tv deal with Fox in the last year.

 

Y'all missed out last year. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rollergames, FS1 was showing old episodes on Saturday nights.

 

I got the references, but I couldn't come up with anything semi-witty to respond with.

 

As a sidenote to the roller derby threadjack, I don't know if this photo is posed or was live action but just imagining the skaters being thrown into that brick wall is both fascinating and horrifying.

 

Someone got a little too deep into the kayfabe for this Wikipedia entry.

Georgia Hase - Wikipedia

 

I do wonder if the lack of names for the new leagues is because MLB doesn't own those names and would have to pay to use them. Can't believe the lawyers didn't work that into the new agreement.

 

I'd guess that's probably most of it, plus the old leagues may have debts MLB wants to keep their fingers out of.