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Friday, July 24th, 2020 1:22 AM

Paying for MLB games

Wow! After all the bull crap thats been going on i thought about Americas past time, baseball. So i get home from work, a happy poor man workn hard. Turn on the tube. Guess what. Gotta pay. I get business. I get profit. I sure hope direct tv can make as much money as possible to attain world dominance. Direct tv. What will you do with it.. No bone from direct tv. I feel sorry for corporations like this. I and people like me that have little, find a way to give.

God bless America. 

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5 years ago

You are upset that you must pay for service? Huh?

 

If you mean you were shut off for past due, of course that is to be expected. You want it, you pay for it. Pay TV is a luxury entertainment service, not something we are entitled to.

 

If you mean for specific access to the games, well that is up to the MLB rules like other professional sports. Check www.directv.com/rsn to verify what is in-market. Those channel/teams you get if in Choice and above. Though if one of your local channels gets rights to a game, then you watch it there (Local supersedes Regional when it comes to game rights) However, if the game you want to watch is out-of-market, then you can only watch games on the MLB Extra Innings, and only for in-season games. For future reference, unlike other sports, the MLB is unique in that Fox has rights to later games on Saturday and ESPN the same for Sunday.

 

The MLB doesn't play for free and TV providers don't give away their service either. They aren't charities.


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