FOUND: Comcast Executives’ Email List; To Help Lift Giants Blackout in Hawaii, Write these People

The Giants are playing for the National League West pennant today, and unless something happens in the next eight hours, Giants fans and all baseball fans in Hawaii won’t see the game. The Giants have been blacked out here for two seasons for reasons described in previous posts, below.

Here’s the URL for a list of Comcast executives you can write if you’re tired of this ill treatment because the suits can’t come to an agreement in the best interests of baseball and its fans:

http://bit.ly/csEK8q

The only interests that count so far are their own! Tell these people – be civil while you’re at it – that Comcast’s image will be immeasurably improved if they do the right thing. We recommend you concentrate on Mr. John Litner: jlitner@comcastsportsnet.com

Here’s the email we sent Mr. Litner 15 minutes ago:

Mr. Litner, I've pasted below an email sent this morning to Mr. Larry Baer of the San Francisco Giants. It is self-explanatory, I hope, and is an appeal to those involved in the Giants’ broadcasts -- including Comcast — to help lift the unsustainable blackout of Giants games in Hawaii. Today would be an excellent day to take note of the PR disaster this blackout is for everyone concerned — the Giants, MLB, Oceanic/Time-Warner and Comcast.

Please cut a deal this winter to allow the Giants games to be televised in Hawaii, but today — please let us watch the Giants win the pennant!

Thank you.

Doug Carlson
Honolulu, HI
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Comma`aina News — http://commaaina.blogspot.com — a website with posts on the infamous Hawaii Blackout

Email to Larry Baer, San Francisco Giants:

Mr. Baer, we haven't corresponded since 2009, the first year the infamous "Giants Blackout of Hawaii" was initiated. Now as then, we Giants fans in the Aloha State can't watch your team on MLB.com or on television unless we pick up and go to a bar, where some coverage can be found now and then. That means the only people who are watching the Giants in Hawaii are those who leave the babies behind and head to a tavern to sock down some beers.

We're trying to be light about this, Mr. Baer, but lightness is hard to come by when our favorite team's televised pursuit of a pennant is denied us due to the rights owners' and Oahu's Time-Warner/Oceanic cable's inability to sign a deal. Giants management can't possibly believe this is a good situation.

Our request: Issue a papal bull or something that will allow this weekend's series with the Padres to be shown in Hawaii . Surely the Giants have influence with Comcast. Please do this, and then encourage the parties to come to an agreement over the winter. For the good of the fans, the Giants and MLB, something must be done in the best interests of the game.