Phillies Baseball Network?

Every spring I look forward to the start of baseball season only to be disappointed by Comcast electing to cover Flyers, Sixers games on their flagship sports station CSN Philly instead of Phillies games. The Phils get the boot down or up the channel line up to TCN (The Comcast Network). This would not be a big deal if not for the fact that many television providers don't have this TCN channel.
From a tweet this week, I found those on Verizon Fios and Blue Ridge Cable, plus my RCN do not carry TCN. I am not sure which part makes me more nuts, the fact that after 3 years complaining RCN has done nothing to fix, or that Comcast thinks people want to watch Sixers or Flyers over Phillies games. I imagine it is much more complicated as ownership groups and Flyers/Sixers play in the same building as the Network, so I have shifted my displeasure to the Phillies. It is time for the Phillies Network to be launched. I know I can buy a digital package from MLB.TV and that may be the best option. I have a couple of Internet TV's that I assume will work with PC/Tablet to show game on TV, not sure though. Just seems like we are making this more difficult than necessary. I hate having to cheer for the Sixers and Flyers to lose and miss the playoffs, but unfortunately those at the mercy of Comcast have no other choice.

A subsciber's advice to the Morning Call newspaper

I have been a subscriber/reader of the Morning Call since taking my first job in the Lehigh Valley in 1989 at the old George Washington Lodge on McArthur Rd. The paper does a better job than anyone turning over leads for sales professionals in the tourism business. They get all the news and PR releases before anyone else and their stories in the morning paper are a great source. Often the fact that I have read the paper by 7AM allows my first sales call at 8:30AM to be the one early bird that catches the worm.. With that said, one of my recent pet peeves with the paper is their decision not to send a reporter on the road with the Phillies Major League Baseball team. As much as I am sure there are fiscal concerns, I also understand that every decision has a financial impact and one is chosen over another for many reasons. I must say, reading an AP report on the Phillies is painful. Odds are if someone is reading the paper in this day and age, they are looking for insight and content not how the runs were scored. Mandy Housenick has done an exceptional job in her short couple of years covering the team and making the hard task of getting something out of the players and coaches that we didn't learn on tv or on the internet. Having Mandy at only the home games, probably makes the Morning Call a second class citizen when it comes to getting the behind the scenes news. I hope you will give some thought to this idea of sending Mandy on the road. Also, I have a few thoughts on the real estate section, but will leave that for another day....