Another point of Cluelessness MLB, bouncing off the closing remark from this blog:

The Trademark Blog: “Finally, as a practice pointer for folk with clients in the sports and entertainment field, you have to be really careful how you deal with fans, because you never want to see your demand letters posted on a website. It would seem that getting the fan sites into a web ring would circumvent a lot of this agita.“

That would seem quite logical to people who know something about the Web audience.  MLB has been at it for at least a year now,  which for me began with their taking away the rights of radio stations to do Internet broadcasts of their teams games.  I am a huge Reds fan,  who moved out of town 5 years ago.  In 1999,  when the Reds were last in the race,  I was able to tune into broadcasts with my net connection.  Suddenly,  there was this page coming up saying I had to subscroibe to Real Networks or MLB plus (or some such program) for 19.95.  NO way!  With all the bad PR going on,  some of this shit needs rolling back and restored,  to make some small gesture of goodwill toward the fans (which will be moot anyway).

Negotiate THIS Don Fehr!