By Joe Capozzi, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Friday, April 16, 2004

 

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- While Marlins starters swept the Expos without allowing a run, Fox Sports Net tossed a shutout to fans in South Florida hoping to watch the historic games.

 

As part of a decision made before the season, Fox Sports Net decided to include the three-game series in San Juan among the 12 Marlins games that will not be televised this year.

 

In September, FSN televised all three Marlins games in San Juan because of the historical value of the games being played outside the United States.

 

"Last year, we used local crews and facilities and the production facilities were inferior, they were substandard. We got by," General Manager Jeff Gempfner said.

 

To televise this year's San Juan games, he said "we'd have had to ship our own trucks crews and technical equipment. It would have been very, very expensive."

 

Of the Marlins' 162 games this season, 150 will be televised -- 95 via FSN and 55 on PAX.

 

"People can second-guess which games we didn't do but we'll do 150 out of 162 games. That's pretty above average compared to other teams around the league," Gempfner said.

I am very annoyed with them. 80% of the time they show Devil Rays games anyway. Lets see... show the defending World Series Champs, or a team who finished with the 2nd worst record in baseball last year.

170 games on FSN.

95 Marlins games.

75 Rays games.

58.6% of all 162 Marlins games.

46.3% of all 162 Rays games.

55.9% of games on FSN are Marlins games.

44.1% of games on FSN are Rays games.

Well, it sure feels like 80%

Well, it sure feels like 80%

Marlins will be on FSN all 3 games in Philly. Rays have 2 games on PAX and 1 no TV game during that time. It evens out.

Today's and Next 5 games on FSN

 

April 17 Marlins @ Braves 6:30pm

April 18 Rays vs. White Sox 1:00pm

April 20 Marlins @ Phillies 7:00pm

April 21 Marlins @ Phillies 7:00pm

April 22 Marlins @ Phillies 1:00pm

April 22 Rays @ Orioles 7:00pm

well when the marlins were playing in PR.....

 

 

it allowed rays games to be shown.

 

 

 

fickle. fickle.

 

 

even though the rays suck.

I am very annoyed with them. 80% of the time they show Devil Rays games anyway. Lets see... show the defending World Series Champs, or a team who finished with the 2nd worst record in baseball last year.

Does it matter?

 

As long as the game is on FSN or PAX, I don't care.

 

 

150 games on TV is a lot, and we already got 4 of the 12 games that are not going to be shown on TV out of the way.

 

My hat goes off to both FSN & PAX for excellent coverage set up for this season.

 

I don't remember a season where there were there was this many games televised, or may I being a homer?

You are correct. FSN has 95, PAX has 55, FOX has at least 2, ESPN has at least 2 (1 overlaps with FSN)

 

That is a total of 153 telecasts and more could come if ESPN picks up some games.

They should've just not shown the ATL games on FSN so the 150 could be elsewhere, because we can always watch TBS . . .

I am very annoyed with them. 80% of the time they show Devil Rays games anyway. Lets see... show the defending World Series Champs, or a team who finished with the 2nd worst record in baseball last year.

Does it matter?

 

As long as the game is on FSN or PAX, I don't care.

 

 

150 games on TV is a lot, and we already got 4 of the 12 games that are not going to be shown on TV out of the way.

 

My hat goes off to both FSN & PAX for excellent coverage set up for this season.

 

I don't remember a season where there were there was this many games televised, or may I being a homer? Wow, even better.

 

If my calculations are correct, 146 of the remaining 151 games will be shown on TV. That's great.

I don't know if anyone gets this channel, but Wednesdays Marlins/Phillies game will be shown on ESPN Deportes. The next day the Marlins will be on ESPN at 1 PM, and then on Sunday night on ESPN.