POSTED 2-26-07

There are rotisserie heroes and fantasy goats. But some performances are so ugly, egregious or plain perplexing that it begs the refrain: What the F--k! Here is Update's seriously twisted moment this week.

For any out of market baseball fan, "MLB Extra Innings" was a must-have TV package. Not only could you root for your team of choice, but with several games a day, you could find any number of excuses to channel surf. Fantasy owners know what I mean. While it hasn't formally been announced, consider it a done deal that "Extra Innings" is moving this season exclusively to satellite and DirecTV. The sides have reportedly signed a seven-year $700 million deal, shutting out cable and other satellite carriers — and most of baseball's most hard-core fans. Is all that money worth risking the loyalty of Joe Fan? Apparently so. UPDATE! gives MLB a big WTF! Sure, there's MLB.TV. And maybe that's the future of broadcast anyway. But who wants to watch the game on a computer monitor after plunking down good money for a flat-screen HDTV? Word is the FCC is going to investigate. Thank you Sen. John Kerry for taking up the cause. Here's a guy who didn't win the last presidential election because he was considered too out of touch with the average voter. Yet he sees the evil in this deal. That must make the decision-makers at MLB truly clueless.