Pop on light rail from Sea-Tac airport
Editor, The Times:
Who says that Seattle is not a baseball town? [“Sea-Tac Airport offers Mariners’ deal,” seattletimes.com, April 7.]
Some years back, we financed construction of Safeco Field. Now we are throwing in even more public support. The Port of Seattle is offering cut-rate parking for baseball fans at the Sea-Tac airport parking garage.
Who can argue with the idea of supporting the Mariners by encouraging the use of publicly funded airport parking and at the same time increasing revenues for publicly funded Link light rail to get to the game?
— Ed Wittmann, Seattle
No M’s for basic cable subscribers?
As media companies consolidate, the consumers get increasingly worse deals.
Take Comcast, for instance. I can only afford the bottom rung of cable TV service, but cannot even watch my hometown Seattle Mariners team playing. To “upgrade” will cost me about $50 more each month. Right now this is not in the budget.
Who is to blame? Fox Sports NW? The Mariners? Comcast? I suspect the latter.
My elderly mother is also a huge Mariners fan, but likewise, cannot afford the upgrade on her limited Social Security income.
I would gladly trade in all my home-shopping and fundamentalist-religion channels just to watch my team play. Apparently that is not in the cards, since cable providers claim they cannot afford to offer a la carte programming. I feel it is time they be forced to do so. That must be done or the M’s (or Fox Sports NW) need to force the issue with Comcast to include this local program on their lowest tier. It could easily afford to do that.
— Michael FitzPatrick, Vashon