Sweetening the pot
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:00 pm
272B222F38643E2327253E2233787A0A2D274A0 wrote: MLB.tv is a joke. I live in Iowa, where six teams are blacked out—the Cubs, Cards, Brewers, White Sox, Royals, and Twins. Bucs play 41 games against them this year. 41 of 60 games are blacked out here for a team that supposedly doesn’t claim Iowa as home territory. No discounted rate. $60 for 60 games. Funny thing is, it’s regularly $120. They’re playing 37% of a season. 37% of $120 is $44.44. Forget you MLB. You screw around with the rules of baseball, you have a vastly uneven playing field for all teams, you rip off your fans, and you can’t even get rid of your ridiculous, arcane, blackouts (since were doing away with the “arcane” idea of the pitcher hitting for himself).
Wow, that is effed up. The only team blacked out for me is the Red Sox, which is fine with me.
Yep. It's why if MLB ever expands, I want to see a team in Des Moines so it would hopefully get rid of the other blackouts. My situation is the same for Reds, Tigers, and Indians fans in Iowa, too. Had this same conversation on Twitter the other day with a Reds fan in Iowa. What really gets me is that they can't even do away with blackouts in a year when they are rewriting everything else from the DH, to how extra innings are played, to how big rosters are, to which ball pitchers can warm up with. Everything. But they can't allow their fans to actually watch games in a year when fans are FORBIDDEN from going to the games.
Wow, that is effed up. The only team blacked out for me is the Red Sox, which is fine with me.
Yep. It's why if MLB ever expands, I want to see a team in Des Moines so it would hopefully get rid of the other blackouts. My situation is the same for Reds, Tigers, and Indians fans in Iowa, too. Had this same conversation on Twitter the other day with a Reds fan in Iowa. What really gets me is that they can't even do away with blackouts in a year when they are rewriting everything else from the DH, to how extra innings are played, to how big rosters are, to which ball pitchers can warm up with. Everything. But they can't allow their fans to actually watch games in a year when fans are FORBIDDEN from going to the games.