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by user TxMike2007
This is my first experience with ArmChair GM and so I'll introduce myself briefly and share one of my more recent thoughts about the sport of Major League Baseball that I love so much. My name is Michael Law and I'm 32 years old. I live in Central Texas and am an avid follower of Major League baseball and am a long time fan of the New York Yankees baseball club. I also follow the Texas Rangers in the AL and the Dodgers and the Braves in the AL. I also follow the other Texas and New York Sports teams and follow NBA Basketball as my second favorite professional team sport. Anyhow, this is my thought for the day:
I didn't get to see the Yankees/Giants game this past weekend for two reasons. The main reason for this was that I went to go check out the Rangers/Astros game in Arlington as a part of the Lone Star series and wasn't at home to enjoy the game on television. The other reason that I couldn't watch the game this past Saturday is that it was on a Saturday.
For some reason Major League Baseball has decided that out of market Yankees fans will be screwed out of watching ANY Yankees games that take place on a Saturday that do not have a start time after 6:30 PM local time or do not air on ESPN. It used to be that if a Yankees game aired on FOX Saturday baseball it wasn't available to out of market fans because of the exclusive arrangement that Major League Baseball has with FOX.
I didn't understand this when I was younger because I thought if a game was on a national television station like FOX --- it was available to everyone in every location. Sort of like if an NBA game is available on ABC, CBS, or NBC --- I thought everybody got the same game.But, as we all came to find out if a game is a Saturday day game on FOX --- You'll get one of 3 to 6 possible games depending on your area.
In my area I generally get a game that involves either the Rangers, the Astros, or the Cardinals. Not only are you not able to get the game on FOX, But since FOX has an exclusive agreement for those games you can't watch them on MLB.TV (Which I have) or MLB Extra Innings (Which I have). I hate this, but I understand it. But now --- even if a game is not on FOX --- You still aren't able to watch it on MLB.TV or MLB Extra Innings if it's a day game that starts between 11 AM and 4:30 PM. And I just don't understand why. The Saturday June the 9th game against the Pirates was on YES instead of MY9 or FOX and yet it was unavailable on MLB.TV or MLB Extra Innings.
I have the YES Network in my DirecTv package and that game was blacked out on my version of YES and it just said it wasn't available in my area. Then the Mets game this past Saturday the 16th was also on YES instead of MY9 or FOX and yet it was unavailable on MLB.TV or MLB Extra Innings. I have the YES Network in my DirecTv package and that game was blacked out on my version of YES and it just said it wasn't available in my area.
I don't understand why this is. On MLB.TV it just says it's not available in my area. I can listen to them on MLB radio but I don't have a lap top and I don't have XM radio or anything so it's only available to me in one room of my home. I pay close to 100 dollars a month for MLB.TV and radio and about 150 dollars for MLB Extra Innings and another 40 for DirecTv's HD baseball channels and super fan package. I don't understand why I can't see these games.
I know that the people that put together MLB Extra Innings would opine that since I get about 135 or 140 games per team that I get over 2000 games a year for my money so that's not much to complain about. But the thing is --- I don't watch 2000 games. I want to watch 162 Yankees games, I want to watch the Astros and Rangers games that are blacked out in my area --- even though they don't air on TV in my area, and some other games here and there.
You don't make it up to me that every single Saturday I miss crucial Yankees games by letting me watch 140 Nats games and 140 Pirates games. Know what I mean?
