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Yep. Fortunately I don't live in the same state as my baseball team anymore. So I watch just about all their games through MLB.tv. Would be so frustrating if I

Yep. Fortunately I don't live in the same state as my baseball team anymore. So I watch just about all their games through MLB.tv. Would be so frustrating if I lived near my team though.

mhinton 4y ago
I live a good 3 hour drive from my team and I am blacked out all the time. It's infuriating.
- jayknight 4y ago
  The teams I want to watch are 6 and 4 hours (3 and 2 states) away. Edit: Here is a blackout map to see what teams are blacked out where: https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-embed-031020_nbquebelwu3l1fqbkl0nklu8p.png https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-em...
interestica 4y ago
For the Blue Jays, the blackout applies to the entire country. And there are certain geographic badluck regions in the US where one can get blacked out from several teams despite not being close to them. Especially when it's a national broadcast [1] Also, the marketing at MLB used to be really bad a few years ago -- it seemed to be deliberately targeting home team fans and leaving out the fact that they would not be able to watch their home team. [1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/08/12/mlb-tv-blackouts-commissioner-rob-manfred-field-of-dreams-game-top-priority-major-league-baseball/8111648002/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/2021... "Currently, six MLB teams are blacked out all across Iowa: the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers. Those teams are not available to watch with an MLB.tv subscription or when they are often aired on national broadcasts. Some of those clubs are not available on Iowa’s main cable packages either." "Additionally, some parts of Iowa are more than 500 miles from several of those blacked-out MLB teams."
dvtrn 4y ago
Things get pretty hilarious when you live in a city with two sports teams and they happen to be playing each other. Every year, Cubs/Sox Crosstown Classic for example.

Yep. Fortunately I don't live in the same state as my baseball team anymore. So I watch just about all their games through MLB.tv. Would be so frustrating if I lived near my team though.

mhinton 4y ago

I live a good 3 hour drive from my team and I am blacked out all the time. It's infuriating.

jayknight 4y ago
The teams I want to watch are 6 and 4 hours (3 and 2 states) away. Edit: Here is a blackout map to see what teams are blacked out where: https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-embed-031020_nbquebelwu3l1fqbkl0nklu8p.png https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-em...

interestica 4y ago

For the Blue Jays, the blackout applies to the entire country. And there are certain geographic badluck regions in the US where one can get blacked out from several teams despite not being close to them. Especially when it's a national broadcast [1] Also, the marketing at MLB used to be really bad a few years ago -- it seemed to be deliberately targeting home team fans and leaving out the fact that they would not be able to watch their home team. [1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/08/12/mlb-tv-blackouts-commissioner-rob-manfred-field-of-dreams-game-top-priority-major-league-baseball/8111648002/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/2021... "Currently, six MLB teams are blacked out all across Iowa: the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers. Those teams are not available to watch with an MLB.tv subscription or when they are often aired on national broadcasts. Some of those clubs are not available on Iowa’s main cable packages either." "Additionally, some parts of Iowa are more than 500 miles from several of those blacked-out MLB teams."

dvtrn 4y ago

Things get pretty hilarious when you live in a city with two sports teams and they happen to be playing each other. Every year, Cubs/Sox Crosstown Classic for example.