@@dominicteneriello9977 "dying" is a relative term in this case. Sure baseball is seeing some mild growth, but they're so far behind the NBA and NFL. This is the main reason why
Meanwhile, in the NFL… “are you in-market? do you have an antenna? there you go! every game for your team is free. you don’t live in any team’s market? that’s okay! you still get SOME free football every week. Oh, and EVERY PLAYOFF GAME is free.”
I love how the MLB thinks that growing the game means expanding to more networks to carry their games. They should be consolidating to as few services as possible and remove blackout markets all together. There is no one on this planet that is going to Apple TV on a Friday and saying “oh let me just watch this conveniently streamed MLB game when I never watch baseball and let me watch with boring commentators.” MLB is so greedy by taking on these new TV contracts and it’s actually hurting baseball
Cant remove blackout markets because it creates a conflict with local broadcasts, I have no issue with this. I’m an orioles fan who lives in New York, so whenever the orioles play in New York I just watch YES network instead of streaming MASN, not that hard
Local blackouts are damaging the sport so much. There aren't that many people who are going to the ballpark more often because they can't watch the team at home, the experiences are apples and oranges. They're just forced into consuming different media. I'd love to watch an extra 2-3 baseball games a week but I'll begrudgingly watch something different because I can't afford the ridiculous cable package. Money is tight for people right now MLB, if you want to grow the sport then let people watch for cheap! Then they might actually be able to save up enough for some fucking seats at your stadiums.
@@UFODave69 you can’t have both because then the cable companies will lose money off of streaming services so you gotta either pick blackouts or no more cable
@@deesnuts1 Do you think these cable companies are on the verge of bankruptcy or something? You're talking about multi-billion $ companies. They'll be fine. But hey, if affordable viewing means the death of cable, so be it.
@@randyrosario5663 We europeans have the tough task to avoid any spoilers for games that we want to watch later the day on-demand via MLB TV... not possible to stay awake every day till 2 or 3am :-/ I love it when my Blue Jays have an 1pm local time start cause thats perfect here in Germany :)
@@soarDK not sure if this will work. Cause the information like billing address/credit card also could be used to determine if a game will be blacked out. Nevertheless to grow the sport & to help keep the people watching it in your home market the whole system as it is is just bad. Short-term high income but long-term no benefits
@@aguyfromnz537 Exactly. This makes the price even more of a bummer. You pay that much just to get the opportunity to watch games, and who wouldn't want to watch the home team?
blackouts are the main reason people don’t watch baseball as much. majority of people can’t even watch their favorite team if they wanted to. GET RID OF BLACKOUTS
Blackouts are 100% just losing money because of illegal streams. I know everytime I see a game I want to watch blacked out in any sport, I just stream it cause why would I go through the hassle of doing anything else?
MLB: We need more fans!!! Also MLB: Let's make it damn near fucking impossible for a fan to watch their favorite team play. MLB execs just Scrooge McDuckin', swimming in money because of all these BS network deals they make, and then complain they can't make new / retain fans. This is why I have resorted to bootleg streams and I feel no guilt whatsoever.
Yeeep. There’s something fundamentally wrong when bootleg streams are easier to access than whatever service is offering it. It’s one place for any stream; the way it should be.
You're on the right track. The real issue is MLB execs don't understand that millennials comprise most of their target audience, and missed the mark. Millennials are cutting the cable and want one place to go for their baseball but don't want to pay too much for it when they can't watch their favorite teams.
@@Cubsfn8888 Frankly, cable in it's entirety is in trouble, it is such an antiquated vehicle to deliver entertainment with. At the end of the day, these companies were able to gouge their customers because they were at one point the only available option - a monopoly, if you will. But now there are just so many different competitors in this arena, and cable is failing to adapt at all. Their entire business model is based off of being in a scenario where they can maximize profits at the expense of the product they provide. They do not prioritize their customers' experience at all, and it will lead to their downfall - we are watching it in live time.
No idea how I became a baseball fan living there for the first 20 years of my life. I legit just watched Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday night baseball on ESPN and that’s all I was able to watch lmao
As someone who’s only been in Iowa a couple of months, this is the worst part of it. And as far as I can tell, if you live in central Iowa(Des Moines, Ankeny), you can’t even get all the RSNs for teams you’re blacked out for. While I’m not a huge fan of blackouts, blackouts for games that you can have access to the RSN is fine with me, not when you can’t even get the channel
Thanks for calling out Iowa.! It really sucks trying to watch any baseball without a vpn. 6 blackout teams are up to 6 games or 12 total teams on a given day that just arent viable. Its absurd.
As a somewhat new baseball guy, this totally sucks. I'm a 4 hour drive from the A's or the Giants but I still can't watch their home OR away games live. What are blackouts supposed to do, convince me to drive 300 miles just to watch a baseball game? No, it's just going to push me towards rooting for a team I can watch and cut out any chance of liking the teams that I live closest to. Totally ridiculous
Try being in Iowa. Seriously can’t watch the cubs royals cards twins white Sox or brewers. And it also applies to the NHL we are a black hole for sports
@@mpetty93 Facts, living here in Iowa is actual garbage for watching anything that isnt in the primetime slots for that week. It's as if they purposefully give us the least interesting matchups week after week.
I'm in the blackout market for the Dodgers and the only way to really watch them is through Spectrum cable due to their TV deal. Of course you need to have a premium package that's like $160 a month for dozens of channels I'll never watch. It's just outrageous.
I'm from Iowa and this has been my gripe for years, and wrote a paper on why tv contracts are bad for baseball when I was in college. Out here we just found the best illegal streams online; every game is free!
This is one thing I have enjoyed about getting into Formula 1 recently. You just sign up for their service and then you can just watch pretty much every F1 race that had ever been televised and every live race as it happens or on demand. And that's it!
Glad to know I'm not the only F1 fan who thought of that! We're so lucky to have F1 TV. It makes things insanely easy, getting every session with two comms teams, driver cams, pre/post content, historical races, etc. All for around $60 a season. I'm worried about next year though since ESPN's contract with Liberty will be up, and it's definitely not gonna be so cheap. We may lose F1 TV Pro in the process, but I really hope they find a way to keep it.
David Cone made a few comments on the Yankees broadcast yesterday which indicated he watched this video. He complained about blackouts much to the chagrin of the other commentators and the producers.
Honestly, this is why I think pay-per-view would work really well for baseball. Like, I'm a full-time college student and I'm gonna have 2 jobs this summer. I can't watch every game. But for the days when I have free time or when my schedules align with my friends? I'd pay a one-time fee to watch just that game.
The rangers are my team and I live in Texas. I have MLB TV and have been using ExpressVPN and set my location to Canada. Works for everything except for Toronto games. I can watch any Fox or ESPN games that way (unless Toronto plays).
This. I just pop onto my VPN, which also happens to be Express, and I can watch my Marlins games. But the fact that we even have to do this is ridiculous.
It's great for me. I'm a tigers fan who lives in Windsor Ontario. I can literally take a city bus to Comerica park. But because I'm in Canada, I'm considered out of market (Toronto is my market, 400 KM away) So I get to watch every Tigers game, except when they play Toronto.
I used to go to Detroit for work all the time. Absolutely loved catching Tigers games when I was there (especially the couple times I got to see the Mariners).
Just the MLB is screwed up like network after network just to watch a sport is ridiculous. No wonder why no young ppl watch baseball or care , it’s made difficult to watch cause you don’t know where to stream it (watch it) than you gotta pay/download an application. Just a stupid way to market an already difficult sport to watch with blackouts /subscriptions
@@jasonlittlebear9660 You can only get out of market NFL games if you have DirectTv and spend extra for Sunday ticket package. Nba League pass is $200 per season and like MLBTV has blackout markets and nationally televised games that can’t be watched
It’s not bro, other leagues do not have it this bad at all. Fuck, even look at the FOREIGN premier league and the way it’s broadcast in the US- all in one place (NBC family of networks). Obviously that could not work here because there are local media rights etc. but acting like this is a *sports problem* very much undercuts the point we/Bailey is making which is that this is a BASEBALL problem
Nah the NFL is really easy to watch. All you need is a tv and an attenna. And it’s free. Hinestly, this is a big reason why they’re the biggest sport in the country. So easy to watch.
I don't have cable, the only thing I would watch on cable or any of these live TV services are sporting events. Why pay all that money when I can get every game I ever wanna see for free with a quick search? Sure there are quality issues with streams going down sometimes but you can just go to another site, there are hundreds of them
Gotta love it that all these TV companies found a new scam by charging for a "Plus" subscription when you already pay for cable TV. They try to make the game as boring as possible then put it behind a pay wall.
This is the exact reason i just stream illegally when i want to watch any baseball. They make it so damn hard and expensive that i just don't want to show them any support. I'm all for paying for the product if it was at all reasonable, the only problem is its not at all.
When you can watch every game of NHL hockey on ESPN+ for 7.99 a month, fuckin $140 is a ripoff in the case of MLB baseball, I know it's for the whole year, but that's dumb
Great video, no fluff, just the stats. I was pretty surprised when I bought MLB TV and still got blacked out on a game when it was on Apple TV+ that night. I think MLB TV should definitely include all the games regardless of their channel deals. Getting blocked for a game does not motivate me to go pay money for another service. It does make me question whether paying for MLB TV was worth it since it's not a complete package.
I was facing the same problem. I wanted to listen to games while I was at work but wasn’t going to pay 140 bucks to just listen and then not listen to the rangers and astros cause I’m in Texas. Then I found MLB radio for 19.99 a year. HIGHLY recommend.
@@LetsPlayBojangles even if it did get taken down 10 more sites just like it would pop up in its place. there are already hundreds of sites where you can stream sports for free, it's never going to not be a thing
I looked at this last year when the braves were taken off bc of the whole Fox to Bally switch. Thought it was outrageous as well so thanks for bringing light to this
If someone can explain to me how blackouts are helpful to consumer or team, I’m all ears. They make ZERO sense. If you’re a Mets or yanks fan in PA, you might as well move or picks different team
The thing with MLB games on TBS is that those games are not exclusive to TBS. So, for example in your market, if the Braves are on TBS, then TBS will be blacked out, because your local regional sports network is also producing its own in-house broadcast of the game. This also applies to FS one. This only happens during the regular season by the way.
I cut all tv subscriptions when RSNs dropped from Hulu TV. Yes I don’t get to watch live sports anymore but nothing will change until we stop buying into their scams come with me and start the revolution!!!
I cant complain enough about how rough Las Vegas has it with Blackouts. Angels, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Athletics, Padres, and Giants. I could literally move to California to get closer to any of those teams and drop all of the blackouts but one.
Live in Iowa (baseball hell) and a cardinals fan. It’s fair to say NFL is favorite league not just because I like football, but I can actually watch the games. (I’m a cowboys fan so they’re usually on prime time)
It’s so puzzling, you would think that making the league easier to watch would be the best approach for the long term health of the sport, but they just try to cash in now. The NBA’s TV coverage is also really badly structured.
I can get it all for $22 because t mobile gives its users mlb tv for free every year and I got a 1 year deal with NordVPN for $22. VPNs are the way to do it in my opinion
And who wants to watch games on there phone? Jesus not everyone is addicted to there phones & want to disconnect/watch baseball on a big screen tv & relax
I really thought you were about to say, “but wait, what about our sponsor NordVPN. Not only does it protect your data from would be hackers. But it allows me to change my location to Dallas so I can watch Braves on MLB Network.”
As a first-generation immigrant and patriotic American who fell in love with baseball after I came to the states, I can write with anger that this is one of the worst aspects about this country: the endless, murky, complicated corporate bullshit that comes with trying to purchase so many goods and services. Everything from cell phone plans to watching sports is tied up with enough caveats to fill up a book. You can almost never just simply pay some money and watch some damn games.
MLS on ESPN+ is great, I can watch a ton of games a weekend. I’ve been able to follow the league very well. I lost access to the Braves games when Sinclair pulled them off RUclips tv. That situation was ridiculous and I hope Sinclair goes under.
It depends on which MLB team you follow. If you're a fan of an NBC Sports team (Phillies, Giants, A's for example) you can get most of it on a streaming service like RUclips tv for less price than cable
I live in LA. 8 years ago Spectrum bought the Dodgers TV rights and unfortunately I don't have cable. I ended up discovering IPTV. I pay 10 bucks per month for all channels. Best decision ever
Thank you for pointing this out. Same for the nba. I cant watch the orioles or pirates which doesnt matter cause who cares but when my Yanks play then I can only watch the highlights or wait for Jomboy. I’m only getting MLBTv so if its not on there then I’m not giving them any attention
Nord VPN + MLB tv. I paid $190 for every MLB game. I'm actually kind of content with that. I feel like MLB almost condones the usage of a VPN. They still get paid with their cable contracts, their sponsors/commercials get out to the user, AND they get an MLB tv subscription out of it. They understand the shit blackouts and they know that if a VPN user is no longer able to use a VPN, they will find a way to stream it for free, losing out on a subscription. No VPN = no MLB tv subscription. That's just my hot take of the day.
I'm not that technically savvy, so I wasn't sure that this would work, but it does. It was really easy. The only drawback is that my HBO Max subscription doesn't work if I have my VPN connected to an overseas server...but the VPN is easy enough to turn on and off. I like to connect the VPN to a server in Italy - when I do that, Google searches come up in Italian. So I can watch the Giants and A's here in Northern CA while also practicing a new language.
@@Jimmy_Peep Well, I'm not frowning on it. 🙂I'm happy to give MLB my money, but I'm most interested in watching my local teams. When they figure out a way for me to do that without the VPN, I'll be glad to pay them for the service. Until then, I live in Sacramento but my computer is in Milan.
This better circulate around MLB. Rob Manfred needs to stop it with these blackouts. Tbh tho, how can one person watch every single game? It's impossible unless you have it running simultaneously live.
Being out of market for the Red Sox and getting MLBTV free from TMobile is how I'm back further into baseball than when I was able to turn on NESN back east
It would actually be impossible to in every region except NY, unless there’s another scenario like the Yankees. Yankees had a game on Amazon Prime. So you would assume in market and out of market fans can get Amazon prime and watch the game…except the game was only available to in market fans…it wasn’t on MLB network because Amazon had exclusive streaming rights, and Amazon didn’t have rights to a national broadcast, so they had to keep it local. Bezos just ruins everything
If you’re a T-Mobile customer, you get MLB tv free, which is what do. I have an Apple TV box with the app, and I have my location set to the Cupertino Cal. So I can watch my Seattle Mariners all the time without the blackout restrictions, but can’t watch Oakland or San Fran I guess.
Not to mention the fact that blackout areas don't always make sense since I am a 12 hour drive away from my team and am still blacked out. Like I get that they want more fans going to games but this just isn't a reasonable expectation for me
Does this guy not realize that there are 2,430 games played in one season?? It makes sense that it would cost $775 to watch them all. Why in the world would you need to watch 2,430 games? You would not have time for a job, hobbies, wife, etc... I can watch all of my team's games for free on bally and that's 162 games.. even that is far too many to watch every second of every game if you have somewhat of a life.
Did you even watch the video? His whole point was you can't watch every game of his favorite team (the Braves) without paying $775. Not every game of every team lol. He made it clear that Bally doesn't broadcast every single game, some of them are MLB network exclusives or Apple TV exclusives or other similar exclusives. And the situation is much worse in a lot of other parts of the country. Especially if your favorite team is out of state or a couple states away, you'd end up paying a lot more to watch every game. Stupid barriers to entry because the MLB is greedy
In the blackout market for the Braves as well. I am in a Facebook group where a guy streams damn near every game. But the depths of hell the average viewer has to go through to get every game is ridiculous.
If you have a fire stick you can get uzzu and it has all those channels we’ve used it since last season. It’s worth a look. I think it’s around 100 for a year
As a cubs fan, I used to always be able to watch games cause atleast half of them were on WGN/ABC etc, I can’t watch any now and it’s taken away my desire to watch games
THIS, not pace of play, not the shift, not three true outcomes, is why baseball is dying. No one can watch games
EXACTLY
Hot take. Baseball isn’t dying
@@dominicteneriello9977 "dying" is a relative term in this case. Sure baseball is seeing some mild growth, but they're so far behind the NBA and NFL. This is the main reason why
I watch them on free streams lol
Exactly, and I feel for the older fans who don’t know how to stream for example.
Meanwhile, in the NFL… “are you in-market? do you have an antenna? there you go! every game for your team is free. you don’t live in any team’s market? that’s okay! you still get SOME free football every week. Oh, and EVERY PLAYOFF GAME is free.”
Plus the NFL app gives you free local AND prime time games on your phone anywhere.
Even the NHL was able to figure it out.
All bow down to almighty Goodell
every game for your team is also free for the MLB??
I think they moved some playoff games to the NFL network and Amazon prime though
I love how the MLB thinks that growing the game means expanding to more networks to carry their games. They should be consolidating to as few services as possible and remove blackout markets all together. There is no one on this planet that is going to Apple TV on a Friday and saying “oh let me just watch this conveniently streamed MLB game when I never watch baseball and let me watch with boring commentators.” MLB is so greedy by taking on these new TV contracts and it’s actually hurting baseball
Cant remove blackout markets because it creates a conflict with local broadcasts, I have no issue with this. I’m an orioles fan who lives in New York, so whenever the orioles play in New York I just watch YES network instead of streaming MASN, not that hard
Local blackouts are damaging the sport so much. There aren't that many people who are going to the ballpark more often because they can't watch the team at home, the experiences are apples and oranges. They're just forced into consuming different media. I'd love to watch an extra 2-3 baseball games a week but I'll begrudgingly watch something different because I can't afford the ridiculous cable package.
Money is tight for people right now MLB, if you want to grow the sport then let people watch for cheap! Then they might actually be able to save up enough for some fucking seats at your stadiums.
@@deesnuts1 Never defend big media corpo. There's 0 reason for this except to buy some shareholder's second yacht
@@UFODave69 you can’t have both because then the cable companies will lose money off of streaming services so you gotta either pick blackouts or no more cable
@@deesnuts1 Do you think these cable companies are on the verge of bankruptcy or something? You're talking about multi-billion $ companies. They'll be fine.
But hey, if affordable viewing means the death of cable, so be it.
The fact that I, as a european baseball watcher can watch every game with just the MLB TV subscription is painfully ironic.
Advantages of live outside every local market. We are blessed
@@randyrosario5663 We europeans have the tough task to avoid any spoilers for games that we want to watch later the day on-demand via MLB TV... not possible to stay awake every day till 2 or 3am :-/ I love it when my Blue Jays have an 1pm local time start cause thats perfect here in Germany :)
As a Mexican, I can relate
I mean Americans could just get a VPN, place themselves in Germany, and just like that... No local market. And VPNs are legit sooo
@@soarDK not sure if this will work. Cause the information like billing address/credit card also could be used to determine if a game will be blacked out.
Nevertheless to grow the sport & to help keep the people watching it in your home market the whole system as it is is just bad. Short-term high income but long-term no benefits
put this on your main channel. this needs to be seen and shared by the stars of our game. this is the bottleneck for new fans.
He has a video sorta like this where he talks about what he would do if he was commissioner
This but with every state
It’s not like you are actually going to watch EVERY game though.
@@aguyfromnz537 some people would like to but there are way too many hurdles and costs.
@@aguyfromnz537 Exactly. This makes the price even more of a bummer. You pay that much just to get the opportunity to watch games, and who wouldn't want to watch the home team?
Trying to figure out the logic behind charging people $140 to not see the one team they want to watch
I mean, just use a VPN, and I think MLB knows of VPNs and can kinda lowkey promote it, but they cant say it vocally
@@pohorex6834 True, it does solve the issue in the meantime, but it's an issue that shouldn't be there to begin with.
@@pohorex6834 why give them money for fucking you?
@@pohorex6834 they’ve been cracking down on VPNs recently. They’ll blacklist the most common VPN IP addresses making it harder to use one
Cause they want people to come out to their stadiums and see their games live.
blackouts are the main reason people don’t watch baseball as much. majority of people can’t even watch their favorite team if they wanted to. GET RID OF BLACKOUTS
Mlb practically begs you to stream games illegally lol
yeah literally thats the only realistic option for 90% of fans, it's baffling that this system somehow makes financial sense
I need to find somewhere to watch my cardinals. Anyone have a good suggestion for it?
mlb 66 thank me later
@@princenoreally 🤫 don't let the plebs know lol
Blackouts are 100% just losing money because of illegal streams. I know everytime I see a game I want to watch blacked out in any sport, I just stream it cause why would I go through the hassle of doing anything else?
MLB: We need more fans!!!
Also MLB: Let's make it damn near fucking impossible for a fan to watch their favorite team play.
MLB execs just Scrooge McDuckin', swimming in money because of all these BS network deals they make, and then complain they can't make new / retain fans. This is why I have resorted to bootleg streams and I feel no guilt whatsoever.
Yeeep. There’s something fundamentally wrong when bootleg streams are easier to access than whatever service is offering it. It’s one place for any stream; the way it should be.
You're on the right track. The real issue is MLB execs don't understand that millennials comprise most of their target audience, and missed the mark. Millennials are cutting the cable and want one place to go for their baseball but don't want to pay too much for it when they can't watch their favorite teams.
@@Cubsfn8888 Frankly, cable in it's entirety is in trouble, it is such an antiquated vehicle to deliver entertainment with. At the end of the day, these companies were able to gouge their customers because they were at one point the only available option - a monopoly, if you will. But now there are just so many different competitors in this arena, and cable is failing to adapt at all. Their entire business model is based off of being in a scenario where they can maximize profits at the expense of the product they provide. They do not prioritize their customers' experience at all, and it will lead to their downfall - we are watching it in live time.
should put this on the main channel so the MLB youtube account can be like NEW FOOLISH BASEBSLL DROPPED!!!1
I thought blacking out all of Canada from Jays games was bad. RIP to Iowa for being blacked out of 6 teams.
At least all of Canada needs just SportsNet Now to see every Jays game. That's one service in comparison.
Iowan here and it sucks. MLB App and a VPN played on my iPad only decent way to watch live.
No idea how I became a baseball fan living there for the first 20 years of my life. I legit just watched Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday night baseball on ESPN and that’s all I was able to watch lmao
As someone who’s only been in Iowa a couple of months, this is the worst part of it. And as far as I can tell, if you live in central Iowa(Des Moines, Ankeny), you can’t even get all the RSNs for teams you’re blacked out for. While I’m not a huge fan of blackouts, blackouts for games that you can have access to the RSN is fine with me, not when you can’t even get the channel
I live in Iowa, and the only team that is blacked out for me is the Royals.
Thanks for calling out Iowa.! It really sucks trying to watch any baseball without a vpn. 6 blackout teams are up to 6 games or 12 total teams on a given day that just arent viable. Its absurd.
As a somewhat new baseball guy, this totally sucks. I'm a 4 hour drive from the A's or the Giants but I still can't watch their home OR away games live. What are blackouts supposed to do, convince me to drive 300 miles just to watch a baseball game? No, it's just going to push me towards rooting for a team I can watch and cut out any chance of liking the teams that I live closest to. Totally ridiculous
Try being in Iowa. Seriously can’t watch the cubs royals cards twins white Sox or brewers. And it also applies to the NHL we are a black hole for sports
I love 7 hrs away from the Bay Area and 5 hours away from Seattle and can’t watch those games with mlbtv it sucks
@@mpetty93 Facts, living here in Iowa is actual garbage for watching anything that isnt in the primetime slots for that week. It's as if they purposefully give us the least interesting matchups week after week.
Part of why I’m a Yankee fan in Florida (also because my parents lived in NY as kids but whatever).
Blackouts are supposed to make you buy the Regional Sports Network. Not drive to the games.
I’m in the blackout market for the Cubs, however I am not within range of the Marquee network, much like you for the Braves. It stinks
Me as well
I love your pfp
if you have mlb tv on your phone just turn off the wifi and u can watch it
@@Cobra-eu5pc read over what you just comMented for a sec then maybe you will realize how stupid what you said was
I'm in the blackout market for the Dodgers and the only way to really watch them is through Spectrum cable due to their TV deal. Of course you need to have a premium package that's like $160 a month for dozens of channels I'll never watch. It's just outrageous.
DirecTV Stream does offer SportsNet LA I think... but you're still paying like $100/month I think.
use a VPN, it helps so much..
Get Nord VPN and switch your server
i suggest moving to europe or asia
Spectrum is incredibly unreliable as well
I'm from Iowa and this has been my gripe for years, and wrote a paper on why tv contracts are bad for baseball when I was in college. Out here we just found the best illegal streams online; every game is free!
It's so easy to find illegal streams there is absolutely no reason to pay for any streaming service nowadays
This is one thing I have enjoyed about getting into Formula 1 recently. You just sign up for their service and then you can just watch pretty much every F1 race that had ever been televised and every live race as it happens or on demand. And that's it!
Glad to know I'm not the only F1 fan who thought of that! We're so lucky to have F1 TV. It makes things insanely easy, getting every session with two comms teams, driver cams, pre/post content, historical races, etc. All for around $60 a season. I'm worried about next year though since ESPN's contract with Liberty will be up, and it's definitely not gonna be so cheap. We may lose F1 TV Pro in the process, but I really hope they find a way to keep it.
Also get Formula 2 and Formula 3, PSC is also fun when its on. The onboards, alternate channels etc too are nice although i dont use them too much
It costs $0 to watch every MLB game because it is the consumer's moral obligation to stream them for free online.
Yup
David Cone made a few comments on the Yankees broadcast yesterday which indicated he watched this video. He complained about blackouts much to the chagrin of the other commentators and the producers.
Thank you for making this Bailey. This is arguably MLB's #1 issue
Lucky for us, Bailey is the only baseball content we need
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This is so on point, and so relevant! It's like MLB doesn't actually want people to watch their games, it's beyond ridiculous.
This works out to about $5 per game. That's very high. For people who don't watch much other TV, it's simply too expensive.
Might as well buy a ticket to the game at that point lol
especially since no realistic person will ever watch every game, let alone a majority of them
It’s 25 cents per game. 5 dollars for every team’s 1/182 games.
Honestly, this is why I think pay-per-view would work really well for baseball. Like, I'm a full-time college student and I'm gonna have 2 jobs this summer. I can't watch every game. But for the days when I have free time or when my schedules align with my friends? I'd pay a one-time fee to watch just that game.
How much does it cost to watch every MLB game?
Your mental sanity.
The rangers are my team and I live in Texas. I have MLB TV and have been using ExpressVPN and set my location to Canada. Works for everything except for Toronto games. I can watch any Fox or ESPN games that way (unless Toronto plays).
This. I just pop onto my VPN, which also happens to be Express, and I can watch my Marlins games. But the fact that we even have to do this is ridiculous.
It's great for me. I'm a tigers fan who lives in Windsor Ontario. I can literally take a city bus to Comerica park. But because I'm in Canada, I'm considered out of market (Toronto is my market, 400 KM away) So I get to watch every Tigers game, except when they play Toronto.
I used to go to Detroit for work all the time. Absolutely loved catching Tigers games when I was there (especially the couple times I got to see the Mariners).
This just proves how ridiculous screwed up watching pro sports is
Just the MLB is screwed up like network after network just to watch a sport is ridiculous. No wonder why no young ppl watch baseball or care , it’s made difficult to watch cause you don’t know where to stream it (watch it) than you gotta pay/download an application. Just a stupid way to market an already difficult sport to watch with blackouts /subscriptions
@@jasonlittlebear9660 You can only get out of market NFL games if you have DirectTv and spend extra for Sunday ticket package. Nba League pass is $200 per season and like MLBTV has blackout markets and nationally televised games that can’t be watched
It’s not bro, other leagues do not have it this bad at all.
Fuck, even look at the FOREIGN premier league and the way it’s broadcast in the US- all in one place (NBC family of networks).
Obviously that could not work here because there are local media rights etc. but acting like this is a *sports problem* very much undercuts the point we/Bailey is making which is that this is a BASEBALL problem
@@jasonlittlebear9660 UFC is pretty bad too. Everything is behind a paywall now.
Nah the NFL is really easy to watch. All you need is a tv and an attenna. And it’s free.
Hinestly, this is a big reason why they’re the biggest sport in the country. So easy to watch.
I live in Iowa. Blacked out from watching my favorite team, the Cardinals, as well as the Cubs, White Sox, Royals, Twins, and Brewers. Fun stuff!
This is a topic I’m very passionate about, and I appreciate the time and effort you put into this video.
In CT we can’t watch the Yankees, Mets or Red Sox. No reason to not go on the dark web.
Fr done it for years now
Ouch.
I wouldn't really call those sites we shall not speak of "the dark web" lol but I get your point
I don't have cable, the only thing I would watch on cable or any of these live TV services are sporting events. Why pay all that money when I can get every game I ever wanna see for free with a quick search? Sure there are quality issues with streams going down sometimes but you can just go to another site, there are hundreds of them
Gotta love the free streaming sites that show every game! Thanks Brazil!
The only time it’s an advantage being a Brit watching American sports
My VPN tells my ISP I'm British, and that's good enough
Not really because you can’t watch 90% of the games anyways because they’re on in the middle of the night..
At this point it's easier to go to a local sports bar 162 times.
I've been tempted to go to one of the two bars in my college town just to catch a game or two. Might end up doing that once the playoffs roll around.
Gotta love it that all these TV companies found a new scam by charging for a "Plus" subscription when you already pay for cable TV. They try to make the game as boring as possible then put it behind a pay wall.
Every VPN company under the sun wishes they coulda sponsored this video
If there was ever a time to wholeheartedly agree with a video that technically does not disclaim an opinion, THIS is the one I’d die for
This is the exact reason i just stream illegally when i want to watch any baseball. They make it so damn hard and expensive that i just don't want to show them any support. I'm all for paying for the product if it was at all reasonable, the only problem is its not at all.
Why isn’t baseball growing? Charge 100 bucks a month to watch it.
if u have t mobile u get it free
@@Cobra-eu5pc great then 90 bucks a month. So much better
100 bucks a month to watch teams you don't give a shit about, at that
When you can watch every game of NHL hockey on ESPN+ for 7.99 a month, fuckin $140 is a ripoff in the case of MLB baseball, I know it's for the whole year, but that's dumb
OR you buy a 7 month Nord VPN subscription with MLB tv and it’ll cost you around $200 for the whole season
Great video, no fluff, just the stats. I was pretty surprised when I bought MLB TV and still got blacked out on a game when it was on Apple TV+ that night. I think MLB TV should definitely include all the games regardless of their channel deals. Getting blocked for a game does not motivate me to go pay money for another service. It does make me question whether paying for MLB TV was worth it since it's not a complete package.
I was facing the same problem. I wanted to listen to games while I was at work but wasn’t going to pay 140 bucks to just listen and then not listen to the rangers and astros cause I’m in Texas. Then I found MLB radio for 19.99 a year. HIGHLY recommend.
I love MLB radio, only downside is the ads get so repetitive and sometimes play the same one back to back
@@Ian00003 yeah I’ve been with it for two years now and they still play some of the same ads from the first time I listened
Blackout restrictions are probably the absolute worst thing thats hurting the sport right now
Yup. And this is why I unabashedly stream every game illegitimately online.
Anyone with a brain does
Big shoutout to TBS for always having some good baseball for me to watch growing up without all these apps and streaming services lol
My friend, join me on the Seven Seas and we can enjoy a bounty of baseball, free of blackout
Just go the MLB66 route, all games for free.
SHHHHHHHHH
@@DM-iw5mj c’mon you think MLB doesn’t know these sites exist? Good luck taking them down though lol.
Sportsurge w
That’s what I do
@@LetsPlayBojangles even if it did get taken down 10 more sites just like it would pop up in its place. there are already hundreds of sites where you can stream sports for free, it's never going to not be a thing
As an Iowan, this stinks. The closest stadium from me right now is 3.5 hours away.
I like how Iowa gets hit by the blackout restrictions the hardest when we don’t even have a mlb team in our state
That's precisely why it's so bad. You're better off a little bit northeast in Wisconsin, where most of the state only has the Brewers.
Speaking as someone who lives in Iowa, it does indeed suck to try and watch games. Luckily, I use a VPN to get around blackouts
I looked at this last year when the braves were taken off bc of the whole Fox to Bally switch. Thought it was outrageous as well so thanks for bringing light to this
If someone can explain to me how blackouts are helpful to consumer or team, I’m all ears. They make ZERO sense. If you’re a Mets or yanks fan in PA, you might as well move or picks different team
The thing with MLB games on TBS is that those games are not exclusive to TBS. So, for example in your market, if the Braves are on TBS, then TBS will be blacked out, because your local regional sports network is also producing its own in-house broadcast of the game. This also applies to FS one. This only happens during the regular season by the way.
I cut all tv subscriptions when RSNs dropped from Hulu TV. Yes I don’t get to watch live sports anymore but nothing will change until we stop buying into their scams come with me and start the revolution!!!
I cant complain enough about how rough Las Vegas has it with Blackouts. Angels, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Athletics, Padres, and Giants. I could literally move to California to get closer to any of those teams and drop all of the blackouts but one.
Or just fly to every stadium to watch every game in person
If your rich than go do it, most ppl have to work & cant fly/go to every game that is impossible
@@jasonlittlebear9660 it was a joke
makes no sense why u can’t watch the team that plays for your state💀
Thank you for this. I’m a Mets fan in NY without cable so out of 162 games I’ll only be able to watch maybe 10? Absurd.
Yo Ho it’s a pirates life for me
Loved the video man! Mlb is crazy hard to get into for new fans
Live in Iowa (baseball hell) and a cardinals fan. It’s fair to say NFL is favorite league not just because I like football, but I can actually watch the games. (I’m a cowboys fan so they’re usually on prime time)
It’s so puzzling, you would think that making the league easier to watch would be the best approach for the long term health of the sport, but they just try to cash in now. The NBA’s TV coverage is also really badly structured.
this is why i have no problem continuing to stream games from third parties.
I can get it all for $22 because t mobile gives its users mlb tv for free every year and I got a 1 year deal with NordVPN for $22. VPNs are the way to do it in my opinion
And who wants to watch games on there phone? Jesus not everyone is addicted to there phones & want to disconnect/watch baseball on a big screen tv & relax
@@jasonlittlebear9660 you can also cast it to your tv with the vpn still on your phone
i just turn off the wifi and i can watch my team it works for me on my phone
I really thought you were about to say, “but wait, what about our sponsor NordVPN. Not only does it protect your data from would be hackers. But it allows me to change my location to Dallas so I can watch Braves on MLB Network.”
I wonder if the mlb will comment a funny joke on this video in hopes to grow their game
Nope.
Im so glad you made a video about it. Its so infuriating...
Can we please give a minute for the poor souls of Iowa 🙏 😢
damn thats crazy glad there are options other than this that are entirely free :)
As a first-generation immigrant and patriotic American who fell in love with baseball after I came to the states, I can write with anger that this is one of the worst aspects about this country: the endless, murky, complicated corporate bullshit that comes with trying to purchase so many goods and services. Everything from cell phone plans to watching sports is tied up with enough caveats to fill up a book. You can almost never just simply pay some money and watch some damn games.
MLS on ESPN+ is great, I can watch a ton of games a weekend. I’ve been able to follow the league very well. I lost access to the Braves games when Sinclair pulled them off RUclips tv. That situation was ridiculous and I hope Sinclair goes under.
Same for me with tigers games, not that they are worth watching anway💀
Sports net has me covered with all the jays games
Did you take into account you might need a 7th month of live tv to watch the postseason?
You can watch any MLB game you want free on the internet with either the home or away announcer, just saying.
It depends on which MLB team you follow. If you're a fan of an NBC Sports team (Phillies, Giants, A's for example) you can get most of it on a streaming service like RUclips tv for less price than cable
I live in LA. 8 years ago Spectrum bought the Dodgers TV rights and unfortunately I don't have cable. I ended up discovering IPTV. I pay 10 bucks per month for all channels. Best decision ever
Thank you for pointing this out. Same for the nba. I cant watch the orioles or pirates which doesnt matter cause who cares but when my Yanks play then I can only watch the highlights or wait for Jomboy. I’m only getting MLBTv so if its not on there then I’m not giving them any attention
Great video wish it was longer
Wait, this didn't turn out to be a VPN ad??
Nord VPN + MLB tv. I paid $190 for every MLB game. I'm actually kind of content with that. I feel like MLB almost condones the usage of a VPN. They still get paid with their cable contracts, their sponsors/commercials get out to the user, AND they get an MLB tv subscription out of it. They understand the shit blackouts and they know that if a VPN user is no longer able to use a VPN, they will find a way to stream it for free, losing out on a subscription. No VPN = no MLB tv subscription. That's just my hot take of the day.
Maybe we’ll see NordVPN ads on jersey’s next year
I'm not that technically savvy, so I wasn't sure that this would work, but it does. It was really easy. The only drawback is that my HBO Max subscription doesn't work if I have my VPN connected to an overseas server...but the VPN is easy enough to turn on and off. I like to connect the VPN to a server in Italy - when I do that, Google searches come up in Italian. So I can watch the Giants and A's here in Northern CA while also practicing a new language.
@@WOWZA3775 I would love that haha
@@camicawber it's very simple. Legal. "Frowned upon" but so are blackouts and outrageous cable bills. (I sound like a Nord VPN representative lmfao)
@@Jimmy_Peep Well, I'm not frowning on it. 🙂I'm happy to give MLB my money, but I'm most interested in watching my local teams. When they figure out a way for me to do that without the VPN, I'll be glad to pay them for the service. Until then, I live in Sacramento but my computer is in Milan.
This better circulate around MLB. Rob Manfred needs to stop it with these blackouts.
Tbh tho, how can one person watch every single game? It's impossible unless you have it running simultaneously live.
Really growing the fan base out here.
Being out of market for the Red Sox and getting MLBTV free from TMobile is how I'm back further into baseball than when I was able to turn on NESN back east
This problem has only gotten worse over the years. I had problems watching the Cubs in Cardinals territory over 10 years ago.
It would actually be impossible to in every region except NY, unless there’s another scenario like the Yankees. Yankees had a game on Amazon Prime. So you would assume in market and out of market fans can get Amazon prime and watch the game…except the game was only available to in market fans…it wasn’t on MLB network because Amazon had exclusive streaming rights, and Amazon didn’t have rights to a national broadcast, so they had to keep it local. Bezos just ruins everything
You know, I think I'd rather listen to Bob Uecker than pay $775...
2 bucks a month for every baseball game old time style
I did the math in my area and it was $609 for the season.
If you’re a T-Mobile customer, you get MLB tv free, which is what do. I have an Apple TV box with the app, and I have my location set to the Cupertino Cal. So I can watch my Seattle Mariners all the time without the blackout restrictions, but can’t watch Oakland or San Fran I guess.
Not to mention the fact that blackout areas don't always make sense since I am a 12 hour drive away from my team and am still blacked out. Like I get that they want more fans going to games but this just isn't a reasonable expectation for me
so glad i live out of market... in a city 1250 miles away from my team's ballpark and 350 miles away from the nearest one
Does this guy not realize that there are 2,430 games played in one season?? It makes sense that it would cost $775 to watch them all. Why in the world would you need to watch 2,430 games? You would not have time for a job, hobbies, wife, etc... I can watch all of my team's games for free on bally and that's 162 games.. even that is far too many to watch every second of every game if you have somewhat of a life.
He’s saying to watch the team you are in the market for it would be $775. Not literally every game by every team.
Did you even watch the video? His whole point was you can't watch every game of his favorite team (the Braves) without paying $775. Not every game of every team lol. He made it clear that Bally doesn't broadcast every single game, some of them are MLB network exclusives or Apple TV exclusives or other similar exclusives. And the situation is much worse in a lot of other parts of the country. Especially if your favorite team is out of state or a couple states away, you'd end up paying a lot more to watch every game. Stupid barriers to entry because the MLB is greedy
In the blackout market for the Braves as well. I am in a Facebook group where a guy streams damn near every game. But the depths of hell the average viewer has to go through to get every game is ridiculous.
I am in Iowa and a Cardinals fan, I have started only watching RUclips highlights for my team as they were taken off fox, and RUclips TV
You can get Uzzu Tv and watch any sport and all the games for $120 a year with zero black outs and also I'm a cards fan in Iowa too
youre local bar probably has every game. and chicks and beer.
If you have a fire stick you can get uzzu and it has all those channels we’ve used it since last season. It’s worth a look. I think it’s around 100 for a year
the only reason I have MLB TV is bc it comes with T-Mobile and I already have to pay the phone bill
And that’s why we pirate gentlemen
This is exactly why I just listen to games on the radio and look at Twitter to see a big play during the game
Reddit MLB streams was awesome!
As a cubs fan, I used to always be able to watch games cause atleast half of them were on WGN/ABC etc, I can’t watch any now and it’s taken away my desire to watch games