Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) , who has long pushed for carriage deals to restore Dodgers baseball, weighed in Wednesday on the news that the Justice Department is suing AT&T and DirecTV for alleged collusion that blocked carriage of Time Warner Cable's Dodgers Channel (AT&T says it will fight those allegations in court).

“The allegations made by the Department of Justice against AT&T and DirecTV are troubling. For three years, Dodgers games have been blacked out for everyone in Los Angeles except Charter/Time Warner Cable subscribers. Dodgers fans, and I include myself in that group, deserve to see their home team play. For the good of our Los Angeles baseball tradition, we must find a way to make sure these games are available for the fans who want to watch them at home.” The Dodgers Channel is still not carrier by Cox, AT&T or DirecTV.

In 2014, Cárdenas and some of his L.A. delegation colleagues wrote Wheeler asking him to mediate the stalemate between TWC and other operators, including Cox and Charter, who were cited for sharing information with DirecTV but not named as defendants in the suit.

Wheeler wrote Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus to register his concern. Marcus advised the FCC to widen its net to look at DirecTV and other distributors for why a deal had not been done. Clearly DOJ did just that.

The DOJ suit was announced by Jonathan Sallet, currently with Justice's antitrust division but until recently FCC general counsel.

Time Warner Cable launched SportsNet LA in February, but a number of distributors complained about the price — some reports put is as high as $4 per sub per month — especially when combined with three other RSNs in the market (Prime Ticket, Fox Sports LA and Time Warner Cable SportsNet) and aren't taking the network.

Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) was beside himself at the news that Charter and Tribune had come to an agreement that puts the Dodgers back on KTLA TV Los Angeles.

Following the news, the congressman even penned a song in honor of the occasion.

"PLAY BALL! Charter Communications takes a swing at Congressman Tony Cárdenas’ (CA-29) pitch to end Dodgers TV blackout," Cárdenas’ office crowed in a statement pitched to journalists Friday (Sept. 2).

In 2014, Cárdenas and some of his L.A. delegation colleagues wrote Wheeler asking him to mediate the stalemate between TWC and other operators.

Pointing out that the first game back on air will be a Vin Scully Appreciation Day, Cárdenas quipped. “Game on! Man have I missed Vin Scully. “He’s the reason I signed up for the Congressional baseball team again this year and why I will be watching the games that will air on KTLA 5. As a legislator, I do not always get to take a swing at fun topics, but if there is anything I am proud of it is my efforts to end the Dodgers blackout in L.A. This may not be the home run my colleagues and I had been writing to FCC Chairman [Tom] Wheeler about, but it certainly gets us on base."

Then he broke into song, at least remotely, adding that for the next month he would be singing his own rendition of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game':

Take me out to the ball game,

The Dodgers are finally on.

Buy me a TV that airs the games.

After Vin leaves it will not be the same.

Let’s root, root, root for broadcast negotiations;

If they don’t agree it’s a shame.

For it’s 1! 2! 3!... 4,5,6 games

And we’re back on in L.A!”