"But last week, when Comcast blacked out YES, leaving its more than
900,000 subscribers in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania in the
dark, the initial propaganda blast wasn’t just directed at Fox-owned
YES, but also its programming jewel — the Yankees. Comcast said that,
over the course of the 2015 season, most of its subscribers were tuning
out the Bombers.
...
This amounts to not very well-disguised double talk. What Comcast is
saying is that, for whatever reason, whether it be a lack of marquee
stars or a boring style of play, the product the Yankees put on the
field is not compelling.
Worse still, Comcast is saying the Yankees, the most storied franchise
in all of sports, have become irrelevant to its subscribers."
It's a contract negotiation tactic, not an assessment of the team.
Nobody tuned out the regular season Yankee games because nobody was tuning in to the regular season Yankee games to begin with.
No wonder when I go to work and talk about the games, nobody knows what I'm talking about.
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