You certainly don’t have to look very long or very hard to find bad news these days. In fact, with the entire planet entrenched in the worst health crisis in decades (or centuries), it is quite the opposite – you have to look extremely hard to find any good news.

Believe it or not, early Wednesday afternoon there was actually some good news; great news, in fact. The Dodgers released a statement reporting that El Segundo, CA-based Spectrum SportsNet LA (i.e., Charter Cable) had finally ended their six-year feud with Dallas, TX-based AT&T Entertainment – purveyors of DirecTV, U-verse TV and AT&T TV NOW, with the latter to immediately begin carrying the Dodgers exclusive and proprietary television channel.

But as is usually the case whenever there is good news (or in this case great news), there are those who simply cannot – or will not – see the glass as being half-full but instead choose to see it as half-empty.

Enter award-winning LA Times sports journalist Bill Plaschke.

Within minutes of Wednesday’s exciting announcement, the veteran writer posted this on Twitter:

With as quickly as Plaschke posted this on Twitter following Wednesday’s announcement, there is zero doubt that the skilled journalist had a heads-up that this announcement was coming. That being said and as far as ‘blackouts’ go, the LA Times has still refused to lift their paywall during the current horrific coronavirus pandemic which, of course, means you need a subscription to even read Plaschke’s piece online. And to be brutally honest, there is an exceptionally good chance that there are as many Angelenos who refuse to be forced into subscribing to the LA Times as there were AT&T customers who were unwilling (or geographically unable to) subscribe to SportsNet LA prior to Wednesday’s announced merger.

No one, absolutely no one, can or will dispute that the six-year AT&T DirecTV blackout caused more than half of Los Angeles-based Dodger fans to be deprived of enjoying Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully’s final seasons as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), or that it prevented viewers from seeing six of the Dodgers seven consecutive National League Championship seasons, but come on, Bill, this is extremely welcomed and good news at a time when there is very little welcomed and good news to be found. Celebrate it, don’t chastise it.

There is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to recover those six lost years … nothing, that ship has already sailed (or that half-empty glass of milk has already spilled). Instead, how about we all look forward to a bright new horizon and embrace this very-much-needed wonderful news.

But alas, as my ever-optimistic father also often reminded me: “There are some people who would bitch if they were hanged with a new rope.”

Enjoy that half-full glass of milk, Bill.

Play Ball!

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