The very public negotiations ongoing in the Time Warner/SportNet LA talks with other carriers is rather strange.
Last week we got word that Time Warner was back at the negotiation table. They had lowered their asking price for the Dodgers SportsNet LA channel to a more reasonable level - at roughly $3.50 per month per subscriber.
Then, a stream of public releases from the LA Mayor, the Dodgers President Stan Kasten and MLB Commissioner Manfred came to the forefront. Following that was an outpouring of disdain from the chattering classes at the unseemliness of evoking Vin Scully's name in this process.