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Game Date	July 2, 2012
Game Time	3 hours 14 minutes
Weather	770 Wind: 5mph from West
Umpires	John Ensign Arnold Schwarzenegger Anthony Weiner
Official Scorer	Charles O. Bennett
Game MCP	Alisyn Camerota

MSNBC articulates a liberal, progressive political ideology. The Fox News Channel articulates a more conservative, libertarian ideology. Neither cable news organization provides fair and/or balanced news. Since the meaning of the slogan "Lean Forward" is not entirely obvious, we cannot determine if these two cable news channels lean forward, or not. (Does "lean forward" mean vanguard or move in front of something else?)

This cosmic baseball game sought to find out if there is any social purpose to the subjective brand of journalism MSNBC and the Fox News Channel manufacture. Fox News won this game and that is consistent with television ratings numbers which put Fox News ahead of its competition. FACT: More people watch the Fox News Channel each day than watch MSNBC programming. Given the nature of our economy that means that the Fox News Channel makes more money.

American journalism has been regularly criticized for failing to be "objective." Whether it was Democrats in 1952 complaining of a one-party press biased against Adlai Stevenson or the Nixon-Agnew administration attacking newspapers and television networks for being too liberal...Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. (Michael Schudson, DISCOVERING THE NEWS. 1978)

    Inn. 1: MSNBC
[Starter] BaierB
SchultzE          7          . . .
MitchellA         6-3        . . .
MatthewsC         1-3        . . .
     Inn. 1: FOX
[Starter] MaddowR
DoocyS            2B/E-7     X . .
CarlsonG          6-3        . . . 1
MorrisC           6-3        . . .
CamerotaA         5          . . .
     Inn. 2: MSNBC
HayesC            4-3        . . .
ScarboroughJ      6-3        . . .
GeistW            7          . . .
     Inn. 2: FOX
JarrettG          K          . . .
SmithS            4-3        . . .
HannityS          E-6        . . X
GutfeldG          8          . . X
     Inn. 3: MSNBC
WagnerA           1B         . . X
JansingC          3 (Foul)   . . X
MaddowR           3-1 SAC    . X .
SchultzE          1B         . X . 1
MitchellA         6          . X .
     Inn. 3: FOX
BaierB            K          . . .
DoocyS            5-3        . . .
CarlsonG          5-3        . . .
     Inn. 4: MSNBC
MatthewsC         5-3        . . .
HayesC            5-3        . . .
ScarboroughJ      4-3        . . .
     Inn. 4: FOX
MorrisC           BB         . . X
CamerotaA         2B         . X . 1
JarrettG          5-3        . X .
SmithS            4-3        X . .
HannityS          8          X . .
     Inn. 5: MSNBC
GeistW            5          . . .
WagnerA           8          . . .
JansingC          8          . . .
     Inn. 5: FOX
GutfeldG          E-8        . X .
BaierB            1B         . . X
X@4:GutfeldG      7-2        . . X
DoocyS            1B         X . X
X@2:DoocyS        CS 2-4     X . .
CarlsonG          2B         . X . 1
MorrisC           7          . X .
     Inn. 6: MSNBC
MaddowR           8          . . .
SchultzE          2B         . X .
MitchellA         6-3        . X .
MatthewsC         BB         . X X
HayesC            8          . X X
     Inn. 6: FOX
CamerotaA         8          . . .
JarrettG          7          . . .
SmithS            8          . . .
     Inn. 7: MSNBC
ScarboroughJ      6-3        . . .
GeistW            2B         . X .
WagnerA           9          . X .
JansingC          1B         . . X 1
MaddowR           K          . . X
     Inn. 7: FOX
HannityS          3B         X . .
GutfeldG          4-3        X . .
BaierB            3-4 SQZ    . . . 1
DoocyS            4-3        . . .
     Inn. 8: MSNBC
SchultzE          6-3        . . .
MitchellA         5-3        . . .
MatthewsC         3B         X . .
HayesC            4-3        X . .
     Inn. 8: FOX
CarlsonG          5-3        . . .
MorrisC           5-3        . . .
CamerotaA         1B         . . X
*SB:CamerotaA     SB         . X .
                  WP         X . .
JarrettG          5-3        X . .
     Inn. 9: MSNBC
ScarboroughJ      6-3        . . .
GeistW            5-3        . . .
WagnerA           K          . . .

Fox News Wins, 4-2