Bent Corner

What do the TV ratings for the Washington Nationals have in common with steroids? Both are being investigated by Major League Baseball.

Speaking to members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Commissioner Bud Selig said that MLB will be checking into the accuracy of published Nielsen ratings. The SportsBusiness Journal reported last week that the Nationals were pulling in an average of only 9,000 households in the Washington area.

That’s pretty bad.

It’s not as bad as the TV ratings the team was pulling when it was still in Montreal. They weren’t even televised the last few years was the Expos.

One of the side-effects of purchasing tickets online to see the Washington Nationals is that they find out what your email address is.  They then use it to send you a seemingly never ending flood of special offers.  This morning I received an email from them telling me about a special Hispanic Heritage night at the ballpark.  The email states that the promotion will take place on July 1.  That’s almost a week ago.

How am I supposed to attend a promotion if they don’t tell me about it until almost a week after it happened?  I am all for honoring Hispanic heritage, especially if it means I get to eat chile rellenos.

I love chile rellenos.