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There’s literally no legal way to watch the Pirates in Columbus, Ohio, unless they’re playing the Reds or Indians.
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Feb 27, 2020 19:58
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They're going to force us back to the cable companies in the end. Fox RSNs are still available on Hulu but for how long?
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Feb 27, 2020 21:04
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Living in Columbus isn't great for MLB coverage because the Reds, Indians, and Pirates are all blacked out (I guess I can understand the two Ohio teams, even though I think they should have to pick one, but Pittsburgh?), but there are a few cities that have it way worse. The streaming services that carry Sportstime Ohio/Fox Sports Ohio all keep getting more expensive so I think this will be the first summer I try to follow the Reds just using the radio and my HD antenna.
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sportsgenius86 posted:There’s literally no legal way to watch the Pirates in Columbus, Ohio, unless they’re playing the Reds or Indians. Is this a bad thing? My mother just did the cord cutting thing and is saving about $50/mo over verizon bundle with fios and youtube tv. Although ymmv with packages obviously. And she's about to snap and get some sort of package with the History Channel because she can't live without the loving curse of oak island. This has nothing to do with sports packages I just really needed to complain about that somewhere.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Is this a bad thing? I've probably told this story before, but my dad wanted to cut the cord, so I did some research. It turned out that with all the different channels he demanded to have, cable was the cheaper option. In addition, no OTT provider offers PBS, LHN, AND Fox Sports Southwest, so that shutters things.
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Edward Mass posted:I've probably told this story before, but my dad wanted to cut the cord, so I did some research. It turned out that with all the different channels he demanded to have, cable was the cheaper option. In addition, no OTT provider offers PBS, LHN, AND Fox Sports Southwest, so that shutters things. it’s always insane to me that there are shows people refuse to live without AND won’t pirate i get not wanting to deal with streams for sports (they’re better now but i also grew up in the era of 240p and four banner ads laid over the screen) but for all non-live content it’s worth the (extremely minor) hassle of having to download a show or two i also don’t really get wanting channels so that some programming exec can tell you what you watch and when but i guess that’s the generational gap
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Peanut President posted:we finally found someone who watches Longhorn Network My dad is pretty much the target demographic ESPN was looking for.
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Peanut President posted:we finally found someone who watches Longhorn Network it shows the 05 NCG like four times a week and that was a very good game
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Curating everything I want to watch is basically work. Also it makes it harder to discover new things. Same reason I prefer Pandora/radio to making my own playlists all the time.
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https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1233558770451714048 e: this is a lot https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1233558091934978050
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Hopefully Nantz retires soon, Romo is too good to be shackled to that turd.
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Traxis posted:Hopefully Nantz retires soon, Romo is too good to be shackled to that turd. What? Nantz is really good
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That's more than he made in all but 3 seasons as a player, goddamn. Good for him.Metapod posted:What? Nantz is really good He sucked with Sims but working with Romo had made him way better. Still lovely for basketball though.
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MourningView posted:That's more than he made in all but 3 seasons as a player, goddamn. Good for him. To be fair he was a good qb but he's a better announcer.
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Being the best color commentator in decades worked out pretty well for Romo.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Unless stand alone internet service gets significantly cheaper, it would be cheaper for me to just get TV and internet bundled than get just internet and purchase a live TV streaming package like YouTube, or Hulu. I think Sling is just barely worth it, but last time I used it the service was awful. Stream would glitch out or not work constantly. I cancelled after a few months. At some point a league has to get smart and realize no one under 35 is paying for cable. I would think that would be baseball that is slowly watching their audience die off, but I guess not.
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One thing I really like about Romo is that he's not sanctimonious, like at all. he's very fun to listen to and lightens the tone of the game. it's amazing that listening to a loving jim nantz game is now like the least sanctimonious broadcast in the league
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Niwrad posted:At some point a league has to get smart and realize no one under 35 is paying for cable. I would think that would be baseball that is slowly watching their audience die off, but I guess not. Except MLB.tv’s streaming offering is consistently high quality in terms of technology and support for various devices, proper pricing, and is granular enough that this PNW dwelling cursed Mets fan is okay with whatever they just charged me for another year of streaming my team losing. Like, I’ll stan forever for MotoGP’s streaming service, because it continues to be the gold standard, but MLB is a surprisingly close competitor. Also MLB’s public API is super fun to play with if that’s your kind of thing.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:One thing I really like about Romo is that he's not sanctimonious, like at all. he's very fun to listen to and lightens the tone of the game. it's amazing that listening to a loving jim nantz game is now like the least sanctimonious broadcast in the league He threads that needle of being informative, welcoming, and fun. There's a reason the only real comparison is Madden even if they're very different.
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MLB.tv is great if you live out of market. If you're in market you're screwed. I'm not going to rig up proxies etc to watch the loving Mariners. Talk about cursed.
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Yea, I have a co-worker who lives about two hours outside of Chicago and gets the MLB network, but he constantly bitches about certain games getting blacked out. Now how that changes with Marquee network this year, I don't know. MLB needs to just make it so if you sign up, you get all the games no matter what. It is completely pointless to sign up if your favorite team is always going to be blacked out. The thing is $25/mo, it's a huge expense to not be guaranteed to see your team.
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Elitist Bitch posted:MLB.tv is great if you live out of market. If you're in market you're screwed. I'm not going to rig up proxies etc to watch the loving Mariners. Talk about cursed. Ugh, yeah, I like that I live on the opposite coast from my dumb team. You have NO idea how salty I was when I went to load up a Timbers/Sounders match in Seattle and my TV geolocked me out of it. Actually, you probably do...
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, I have a co-worker who lives about two hours outside of Chicago and gets the MLB network, but he constantly bitches about certain games getting blacked out. Now how that changes with Marquee network this year, I don't know. MLB needs to just make it so if you sign up, you get all the games no matter what. It is completely pointless to sign up if your favorite team is always going to be blacked out. The thing is $25/mo, it's a huge expense to not be guaranteed to see your team. MLB.tv is designed for out-of-towners, not in-towners.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Except MLB.tv’s streaming offering is consistently high quality in terms of technology and support for various devices, proper pricing, and is granular enough that this PNW dwelling cursed Mets fan is okay with whatever they just charged me for another year of streaming my team losing. I'm talking about the blackout rules. I can't watch the Cubs in Chicago unless I have one of the few cable providers that carry their network. They'll blackout Cubs games on MLB.tv here and within like 3-4 hours of the city. Leagues need to find a way to allow people under 35 to stream their local team.
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I'm in downstate Illinois and I can't watch Cubs on MLB TV Blackout rules loving suck. Guess I'm watching the Sox now
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Niwrad posted:I'm talking about the blackout rules. I can't watch the Cubs in Chicago unless I have one of the few cable providers that carry their network. They'll blackout Cubs games on MLB.tv here and within like 3-4 hours of the city. give it a few more years and the cord cutting bubble will burst and there'll be alliance of bundled streaming services offered by larger conglomerates who can use their subscriber base to negotiate carriage agreements
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Niwrad posted:I'm talking about the blackout rules. I can't watch the Cubs in Chicago unless I have one of the few cable providers that carry their network. They'll blackout Cubs games on MLB.tv here and within like 3-4 hours of the city. What you’re thinking of will never happen, and even if it did, it would be, like, $30/month to offset costs of not having a provider.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Considering there are people paying $25/month for it now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a market at $30/mo if it meant no blackouts ever. No, I mean $30/month just for your local team's games.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Considering there are people paying $25/month for it now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a market at $30/mo if it meant no blackouts ever. Way higher.
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Edward Mass posted:What you’re thinking of will never happen, and even if it did, it would be, like, $30/month to offset costs of not having a provider. I'm sure someone would rather pay an extra few bucks a month to watch their hometown team than have to sign up for a $100 cable package they don't want. Also losing a little bit of money in the short term seems OK if it means you actually get young people to watch your sport.
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