Maybe not so much kill it as make money off of it. The supreme court turned down a case involving Major League Baseball and a Missouri company which will uphold the lower court’s ruling. The lower court said that sports companies do not need MLB’s approval to use player names and statistics.
But lower courts said the websites had a First Amendment right to publish information about the players’ performances on the field, just as the media do.
Fantasy baseball is huge. I’m really surprised that I hadn’t heard something about this case before. Had the MLB won fantasy leagues would have gone the way of sports video games. Only the biggest companies like ESPN and maybe Yahoo! would be able to pay the MLB whatever exorbitant fee they decided was necessary to use players’ names.
Who the fuck wants to play in a fantasy league that has to use fake names for the players like Harry Honds?
Original Story: Washington Post
NOTE: The dick grab picture is totally unrelated but hilarious. Thank you Google image search.
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but what was your search query??
@J Diggles
fantasy baseball
It’s the 4th picture returned.