Crosscut: Comcast’s high-definition baseball asterisk

Great Truby’s Ghost! Are these Hi-D moments happening elsewhere?

Those Comcast high-def customers who flipped to Mojo (Channel 664) Monday night, May 12, after Kenji Johjima smacked a game-tying, three-run homer in the ninth instead saw George C. Scott starring in The Exorcist III.

While it could be true that only an exorcism will save the M’s season, it was frustrating to discover that Mojo had shut down its super-clear broadcast of last night’s slugfest against the Rangers. The extra-frame affair was still available on normal cable, but only via FSN Channel 30, a big letdown for high-deinition baseball addicts. [....]

An amiable rep explained the facts of life: Comcast leases a four-hour window from Mojo to air each M’s game. Usually that’s sufficient. But last night, for the second time this season, it wasn’t.