Netflix Is Loading Up The Clown Car For Opening Night

It's opening day, sort of. The Yankees and Giants will start the season in San Francisco, today's only game. It's a Netflix exclusive, which is an annoying development if you, like me, want to watch this game but don't have Netflix and will not buy Netflix. But Netflix made MLB an offer it couldn't refuse. It's a reported $50 million over three years, for what feels like a fairly skimpy slate of programming: three opening-day exclusives, Home Run Derbies, and occasional special events, like the Field of Dreams game and WBC games in Japan. That is what happens when a company with too much money decides it wants to get into live sports. Another thing that happens is that the desire to make the game feel like An Event results in an overstuffed broadcast, where not a single second is allowed to pass without some recognizable face on screen. Here is the broadcast team: