C. PETEGOMERY ANGELOS

I'm sitting here on a Friday evening, watching the Washington Nationals try to stage a comeback in Houston. But just a few minutes ago, the audio went haywire — I could sort of hear the announcers beneath the din, but the racket is damned annoying. The picture was fine; the sound just went to "snow." Then it went dark. The other cable channels? Loud and clear. Now the Nats game is coming through fine again, but for how long?

If I was the conspiratorial type, I'd create a single-post blog to host my manifesto — more like a communique, actually &mdashl; positing that Orioles owner/cartoonish supervillain/current regional TV rights miser Peter Angelos is not content just to put more Baltimore games on the air in the District than Nationals games. One can watch more games if you subscribe to Angelos' MASN sports network, but it's only available on the RCN cable provider (a good second to Comcast in this market). I'd marshal whatever circumstantial evidence and spiteful insinuation I could muster to persuade readers that Angelos has his minions spread out around the country, sabotaging the broadcast facilities at games featuring the Washington Nationals.

It starts to make sense, if you want it to be true. If you believe Karl Rove was behind the unknown figures who gave that Bill Burkett guy those fake Texas Air National Guard documents, then you really have no grounds to argue with this.

Hat tip to BallWonk for the ehehehexcellent analogy.

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posted by WWB at 9:50 PM |