because I am a glutton for punisment. I want to watch my Reds get crushed all year. The only problem is my f***in zip code is in an area where the Reds are blacked out. WTF???
I can understand the Braves because FSS is our local sports channel,but the Reds are a whopping 361 miles away. Plus we have no local radio broadcasts of the Reds. How is this possible?
I am glad I have XM radio so I can at least hear the Reds game while I watch the other games on my pkg. Still I felt the need to rant!
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." Jackie Robinson
Luckily, since I was burnt with the Penguins' blackouts, I waited until the free preview to see what was blacked out.
Last year I had MLBEI and *only* the Phillies were blacked out and that makes sense. This season, the Pirates, Phillies, Nationals, and Orioles are all blacked out. There were 4 games on EI last night and 3 of them were blacked out!
What the hell happened in a year? F*ck them. I can pickup the radio broacasts after dark and I paid the $15 for MLB audio.
That's freaking nuts.. How can they justify blacking out games in areas where there is no TV coverage of those teams? I mean, what about that makes any sense at all?
These packages really seem to punish people who don't live in a specific team's market.
I think Iowa gets hosed in the MLB package, too, with multiple teams being blacked out.
The rule should be that if your regional sports network doesn't cover the team, you get the MLBEI feed. I'm not sure what they think these blackouts accomplish.
Jackdog, do you by any chance have Directv? If so, you can get around the blackouts by adding the "sports" package for another 10-12 bucks per month. That is what I have had to do in the past, as my location is considered to be in the Chicago/Milwaukee/St Louis/Kansas City/Minneapolis market. However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
Well. I feel for ya, but man did I score this year and I owe it all to the Indians. I am not sure who its with (TimeWarner maybe) but they basically got their own network station now. Well since I live in Indian's country, my cable company Adelphia (bought out by TW soon and soon changing hands) deicded to add a channel to the sports package and show EVERY Indians game. Well for a Reds fan I was like big deal, that is until opening day when the Red were on FoxSports Ohio who formally carried nothing but Tribe games in my area. I then go through the guide and see that for like the next 10 days there are atleast 6 Reds games on. I am so excited!! Now if I could just get the Browns to play well and get the Bengals off the tube LOL!!!
HipE wrote:Jackdog, do you by any chance have Directv? If so, you can get around the blackouts by adding the "sports" package for another 10-12 bucks per month. That is what I have had to do in the past, as my location is considered to be in the Chicago/Milwaukee/St Louis/Kansas City/Minneapolis market. However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
Thats what I did when I had DTV, they have 2 Foxsports Ohios. one for cincy and one for Clev.
HipE wrote:Jackdog, do you by any chance have Directv? If so, you can get around the blackouts by adding the "sports" package for another 10-12 bucks per month. That is what I have had to do in the past, as my location is considered to be in the Chicago/Milwaukee/St Louis/Kansas City/Minneapolis market. However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
Do you have to buy the sports package and MLB EI to get the games?
HipE wrote:Jackdog, do you by any chance have Directv? If so, you can get around the blackouts by adding the "sports" package for another 10-12 bucks per month. That is what I have had to do in the past, as my location is considered to be in the Chicago/Milwaukee/St Louis/Kansas City/Minneapolis market. However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
Do you have to buy the sports package and MLB EI to get the games?
Unfortunately, you do.
I decided not to get EI this year, since the Pirates are always out of it by June and then I never end up watching anything other than Cubs games, which I get locally. I did however add the sports package for this week, so that I could watch the first few Pirates games during the EI free preview. At this rate, they will be out of contention by the end of the preview on Sunday, and I will have had my fill of watching them play.
HipE wrote:Jackdog, do you by any chance have Directv? If so, you can get around the blackouts by adding the "sports" package for another 10-12 bucks per month. That is what I have had to do in the past, as my location is considered to be in the Chicago/Milwaukee/St Louis/Kansas City/Minneapolis market. However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
I do have DirecTv and gave this a try last night. It didn't work for me. I think it's because our home market team down here is the Braves.
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." Jackie Robinson
That f'n sucks, brotha. Glad you got that Sling Box. I heard about them.
No doubt! It save my arse when I was in Italy. I am going to head north this week and connect up with my brother. He gets both the Reds and Indians as his home market teams.
Because I love baseball so much I am going to keep the MLB pkg.
Hope all is well with you!
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." Jackie Robinson
bdunn13 wrote:I was not saying to cancel... Just change your address so your blackout rules change.
Are you suggesting I call Comcast, tell them my address changed to Florida, and somehow my games will no longer be blacked out? That sounds highly unlikely.
However, if I have the regionals sports package, I can get all of the games in with none being blacked out.
