Cubbies Baseball, a website that describes itself as, "YOUR online portal for the Cubs," has had its MySpace page deleted without warning after Major League Baseball apparently requested that Myspace shut down all MLB MySpace pages. The owner left this message on his personal MySpace blog: Are you wondering what happened to the Cubbies Baseball MySpace page? I was too..You can still find the cached page here. I thought it was because it just seems to be a store, but the owner of the site says that they're an affiliate of Major League Baseball and all the same stuff seems to be available on the website, which hasn't been taken down. All we can do is assume that Major League Baseball hates its fans and is dead set against appealing to anyone under the age of 50. But we knew that already.
Without notification from MySpace, the Cubbies Baseball MySpace page was shut down last Thursday and over 3,000 of our friends were left in the dark.
Since then I have learned that Major League Baseball had asked that MySpace close down any Major League Baseball MySpace pages. We still aren't sure the reason, nor has MySpace replied to my numerous emails.
Its unfortunate that MLB won't let fans appreciate their product and it is also unfotunate that MySpace can pull the plug on hard work without blinking.
Via BBTF.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-22-2007 @ 9:17PM
Brock said...
oy, hard work? their site was a store with bootleg crap on it. only cub fans would buy dumbass merch that looks like jam band rejects. keep dementing yourself with curse talk and maybe someday you'll see some sustained success.
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8-23-2007 @ 12:06PM
Kirstin said...
Did they or didn't they shut down the myspace? Or did myspace bring back all baseball fansites? Because I have a friend who does soxspace and he had been working on it since he was 16 and has over 88 thousand friends. His myspace got shutdown but people kept messaging tom and so tom messaged jared and brought it back. Thats pretty crappy if only soxspace was brought back of all the sites that were shut down.
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