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Originally Posted by Dr.K
Glad to know I'm not the only one,
I play historic so This Week in Baseball with Mel Allen is normally on in the background or I have a documentary. There is one about the Brooklyn Dodgers which is one of my favourites! I think it's Ghosts of Flatbush.
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GREAT documentary. I learned so much about the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers watching that.
As for TWIB, one of the greatest mysteries to me is why in the world MLB Network has not aired classic episodes of that show during the offseason. There's plenty of down time and instead of showing crappy baseball movies ("Summer Catch", "Major League II", "Bad News Bears In Breaking Training", "Benchwarmers", etc.) why not show classic episodes of TWIB? I'm guessing that they don't feel that young people would be interested in watching so they are aiming for that demographic because they feel TWIB skewers towards an older audience. Perhaps. But what would be so wrong with having the new AND the old? What would be so wrong with having new programs on MLB Network AND classic episodes of TWIB or "Home Run Derby"?
It's history and it's a part of Major League Baseball history. And if they can show Ken Burns's "Baseball" every winter, why can't they show TWIB or "Home Run Derby" or even "The Baseball Bunch"? I'm still surprised that somebody hasn't put those episodes out on DVD especially since MLB Network obviously has no interest in airing them. "Home Run Derby" is on DVD and the first season of "This Week In Baseball" was released on DVD but that was it.
I know that there's an audience for TWIB and if they put out a boxed set of all seasons, regardless of the price, many fans including myself would buy it.