MLB proposes lifting TV blackout

By Ron Kantowski

Friday, Aug. 8, 2008 | 2:44 p.m.

NOW:

Let the games begin -- on TV.

As in baseball games. All baseball games. Or nearly all of them, at least in Las Vegas, beginning with the 2009 season.

Major League Baseball president Bob DuPuy will propose lifting the crazy territorial blackout rule that prevents about a third of the games available through MLB's subscription TV packages from being seen in Las Vegas. And other places, like Iowa.

You can read about it here.

If the executive council agrees to lift the blackout at next week's owner meetings (opposition is said to be minimal), it'll mean, among other things, that all 162 Oakland A's games will soon be available.

Of course, that doesn't mean you have to watch all of them. Even if you live in Iowa.

THEN:

When you are driving all night, and starting to feel a little lonely after putting Tulsa in your rear-view mirror, there is something comforting about listening to a baseball game on the radio.

Then almost before you know it, it'll be the seventh inning. And you'll be able to see the lights of Oklahoma City.