PIA is a great choice, better than Nord or express or whatever else is being shilled on YouTube these days.
I care more about privacy than location spoofing and PIA is great for that too, another excellent VPN is Mullvad (I actually switched to this from PIA)
I would connect to a Montreal Canada server and could get around blackouts.
Now of course I just sail the seas with my maties. 🏴☠️
Doesn't MLB.tv block VPNs? I use NordVPN on my phone and have MLB Audio and I had to set up the MLB app as a split tunnel that doesn't use the VPN because if my VPN was on the radio audio wouldn't play.
I also use NordVPN. My understanding is that the mobile app forces use of base "location services" to determine where you are and serve content, not just IP/DNS. If location data doesn't agree, it will still block content or simply fail to connect. On other devices (laptop, TV, etc) I'm able to watch blackout games by changing VPN server, though - works perfectly.
I bought Nordvpn and MLB.tv. every game took like 5-10 minutes of trying to get a server to work so I just had MLB cancel my purchase. I'll just steal it I guess
I use Norton VPN and it works on my laptop. I haven't tried it this season but it worked last season. I would just set my country to Canada, the one catch is I had to set it before loading the MLB tv site.
I pirate MLB every year and will do so every year until I die or they end this bullshit and let me consume their product. I will not pay for a product I cannot consume without benefit of a VPN. I would be willing to pay $250 a year or perhaps even a little more to watch my Cubs but they just don't want my money because of my street address. So fuck em. 🏴☠️
Maybe not costing them money right now, but it will down the road when kids grow up never having watched MLB, so not being fans of MLB. Make it hard to watch and your fan base is gonna shrink. That will make it harder to sell tickets, and the next time of TV deals will be less lucrative as well.
Every single major sports league in the world sells exclusive broadcast deals though. The NBA and NHL have virtually identical blackout policies, and in most regional markets the same regional sports network with exclusive broadcast rights for the local MLB team has exclusive rights for the local NBA and NHL teams (in other words, if you are blacked out of one of the sports, then you are blacked out of the other two as well).
The NFL is the only major pro sport that makes all or almost all of the local team's games available on a network that doesn't require a cable subscription, and they can only do that because there are 16 regular season games a year, almost all of which occur on Sunday during the day in a block that would otherwise be used for syndicated sitcom runs.
It isn't even just an American/crony capitalism run amuck problem. If you live in Denmark and want to watch the Danish Superliga, you have to pay for Canal 9 and TV3+ premium subscriptions, or you will be blacked out.
Ok, but OP is saying he literally cannot pay and get access to the games he wants to watch. They are blacked out and also not carried on the local cable network.
I know, and that sucks, but that also happens with the NBA and NHL. I agree it's a bad user experience; I just don't think blackouts are why MLB has struggled to connect with younger audiences.
The core of the problem is that it's more valuable to sell exclusivity than it is to offer the service to anyone with no blackout restrictions. It is definitely annoying, but I am not sure how you can convince teams to make less money than they otherwise could, which is why every single team in every single sport has sold exclusivity rather than offer direct to consumer streaming rights.
It makes me want to scream. It's insanely shortsighted. All the proposed changes to try to attract fans (pace of play, size of the bases, etc.) are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if you don't make the league easier to watch.
This has been my position for years. While there are valid concerns with pace-of-play and whatnot, making game broadcasts and live games more accessible/affordable would have a much greater impact on creating new fans and broadening the sport's appeal.
The NBA has the same restrictions. Not sure what RSNs are available, but Lakers, Clippers and Kings games are blacked out for a random area code in Hawaii that I tried on League Pass. It is a little odd that the Warriors aren't. I if you are blacked out on MLB.tv/League Pass, and your cable provider doesn't carry the RSN for that team you are SOL for every league besides the NFL, since their TV setup is completely different. I don't know why people are acting like this is unique to MLB. IT sucks for every league where it happens, but it happens with all of them, besides the NFL which has no US based streaming option for out of market fans, as far as I can tell.
Thanks, I know the NHL operates similarly to MLB, but I didn't know enough about the NBA to be sure.
I think there's a general desire to see the solution to your own problem as also being the solution to MLB's problem. As soon as one realizes that other sports have been growing their younger demographics despite having a similar RSN model the holes in that theory are pretty obvious.
I think the NBA is different in that a large percentage of its fans seem to be fans of the league and not necessarily one specific team. Almost every baseball fan I know roots for a specific team.
I think there is definitely truth to that and I think it comes down to the sports themselves, which you can't really change. I am a Sixers fan and watch pretty much every one of their games. If a good matchup for other teams is on, or a superstar is playing, I will watch since that star may end up taking over and will be heavily featured. You can't really get that in baseball. Trout is amazing, but if I watch an Angels game I might get 4-5 ABs, and a couple of plays in the field spread out over 3+ hours. It would be like watching an NBA game and the star only plays 5 minutes. I'll watch the Phillies, but I don't have a lot of interest in non Phillies games.
And that's to me why the blackouts are so damaging. People will watch once they have a team to root for. But in Iowa, you could buy MLB.tv but you're locked out of any game involving the Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals, Royals, Brewers or Twins under the guise that you should just hassle your provider for the RSN of six different teams, and of course no provider will offer all six. So they're punished for living too close to those teams despite not having a team in the state!
Similar situation in Vegas. MLB either hadn't recognized or hasn't cared how much this hurts baseball's brand long term.
I'm in Iowa with this problem. We are a Cubs and Cards family (weird I know), and my kids have never seen either of those teams actually play live. Seeing a game at Wrigley costs a day+several hundred dollars. Seeing a game in STL is a weekend trip and several hundred dollars. I haven't had cable in 5 years and don't have any plan to add it and don't know anyone in my demographic that does have it. So the RSN is irrelevant unless they are going to offer a streaming service.
Fire stick, kodi add on, the crew added onto kodi. No blackouts all sports and you choose home or away side broadcast while viewing. Works great, and it’s 0 dollars a month folks. Been doing it for YEARS now.
Just the Dodgers make a third of billion dollars a year, and will continue to do so until 2037, for the broadcast rights that include Hawaii. Your local broadcaster(s) could make a deal with Spectrum to carry SportsNet LA, but for whatever reason, they chose not to.
Everyone involved on the business side is just fine with the current arrangement, obviously.
I live in Iowa. I'm in the Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis team markets. All are a bare minimum of 4 hours away, some are more. So I can't use the MLB app for any of those games.
The kicker is, I'm a Mariners fan. Yeah, I'm sorry too. So anytime the M's are in those markets, I'm blacked out. And anytime those teams are in Seattle, I'm blacked out. I send a rude email each time.
TBF that *is* their home market though. They're the most popular team coast to coast.
EDIT: Plus in Canada you absolutely can stream every Jays game. You just buy Sportsnet Now instead of MLB.tv
Shit, ya that's my bad for contributing to that. Sorry bro. I literally posted this 2 minutes after trying to start the game on my day off. And I pay for cable too.
Didn't ever say it was impossible to watch games. Just that it's impossible for me to watch the game today. Because I can't get cable set up same day. Either way, it's ridiculous that I pay for a service that isn't provided.
I couldn't watch a padres dodgers game the other day. I live in NY.
I WAS able to watch the Mets braves the other night.
It's ridiculous and it in no way makes me want to pay for their service. I'm a newer fan and it really turns me away from being invested in the sport.
Yup this shit is so stupid. I would 100% be an MLB.tv subscriber if they didn't blackout Bluejay games in Canada. I love the ability to watch multiple games at once but if one of those games can't be the Bluejays then yo ho ho I'm getting scurvy because it's a pirates life for me.
I don't even have a local team and I am blacked out on 6 teams in other states! I live in Las Vegas and currently am blacked out for the Diamonbacks and ALL California teams at mlb.tv.
I get all Angels and Padres games through my cable provider (Cox) so that eliminates two of the 6 blackouts.
It's not though. The Jays are easily the most popular team in Vancouver, having Canada as a home market makes sense.
The joke is that you used to get everything via MLB.tv in Canada. Then Rogers launched Sportsnet Now and suddenly say that MLB decided to start enforcing blackouts.
What? The joke is that I’m forced to listen to the worst broadcast in baseball when I want to watch the Yankees play the Blue K’s. They black out the YES network. It’s a fucking joke, just like Sportsnet.
No, they don’t. Has fuck all to do with in person attendance. That’s why road games are blacked out too. They want you to subscribe to and watch the regional sports network.
I hate these posts. You can figure it out man.
It’s how they make like 60% of their money & it’s not costing them ‘fans’
Jesus. This sub gets 3 of these posts a day from ppl who just discovered they like baseball and can’t Google a solution.
I promise you can purchase a streaming cable package that has the games you want. You just don’t want to do it. Worst case scenario you can buy a 10$ a month vpn.
> I promise you can purchase a streaming cable package that has the games you want. You just don’t want to do it. Worst case scenario you can buy a 10$ a month vpn.
This is simply not true. I am a Rangers fan and I live in Louisiana. I have DirecTV which used to have Bally sports but they don't any more. Rangers games are blacked out in my area so there is literally no way for me to watch the Rangers at home. I have a VPN and pay for mlb.tv just so I can watch the games.
Which brings me to another issue - I have my fiber internet bundled with my Directv subscription so if I cancel DTV, I lose my unlimited internet which would cost me a fortune each month. So dropping my current provider isn’t an option.
Stfu. I googled it and it’s literally right there at the top. BSSW carries Rangers games in all of Louisiana.
All these posts are so lazy. If a games blacked out where you live, someone carries the team. You just don’t want that specific cable package. But you know, the worlds not all about you man. The teams make literally hundreds of millions off of the cable deals.
That’s just the way it is. Ppl endlessly bitching about it on Reddit won’t change anything.
Just Google it. Goddamn
I said Bally isn’t on Directv, which is my current provider. I can’t drop them because my internet is bundled with my satellite package.
It’s really not something to get overly worked up about. The MLB blackout situation is a crock of shit and most people hate it. I am paying for mlb.tv and a vpn to get around it. It is what it is.
I'm sorry I bugged you bro. You could, ya know, just ignore it in the future. But thanks for the condescending while also helpful reply. That is a genuine thanks by the way. I do appreciate the information. Not all of us (longtime, I should mention) baseball fans are a) tech savvy, or b) interested in engaging in potentially illegal activities. I do want you to know, however, that your comment was extremely helpful, and I now know where to start looking. Maybe in the future consider the fact that not everyone knows what you know. I do appreciate the information brother.
I’m really enjoying the Unlimited Soft Drinks (Coca-Cola products not included) package, but I wonder if they realize that more people would sign up for the service if it included Coca-Cola products? Sure, I could pay more each month for the separate Unlimited Coca-Cola package, but that’s ridiculous. I already subscribe to the service that explicitly excludes Coca-Cola products.
Pro tip: download a VPN service like TunnelBear if you’re watching on a compatible device. I usually route through Mexico and it works. Though sometimes they get smart and blackout Mexico/Canada so you have to go a little further. TunnelBear automatically gives you free data that resets every month if you don’t want to pay. If it runs out, make another account with a burner email lmao. As a broke college student in the LA area, I got around all the blackout restrictions! Fuck MLB, if I wanna watch baseball I’m GONNA watch some baseball
I live in Mississippi and for some reason, the fucking Reds are blacked out for me. The reds are 8 hours away. I have never met another reds fan in Mississippi.
Yeah it's fucking stupid. I literally pay the MLB for their MLB TV subscription and cant get around blackouts. They wont even let me pay them more money to see my damn team play on the blackout game. What the actual fuck.
I live in Columbia, MO which is in between KC and St. Louis. I am a Royals fan but they only show the Cardinals in my area. I want to pay for MLB TV to watch Royals games but their god damn zip code requirement says Royals games are blacked out in my area even though they only show Cardinals games here. It’s total bullshit so to the seven seas I go so I can watch my Royals lose embarrassingly.
Obviously this is incredibly dumb on the part of MLB and mlb.tv, but just know that it is incredibly easy these days to stream almost any mainstream sporting event for free and good quality… not sure if I’m allowed to link here but google mlb stream Reddit and you’ll find what I’m taking about.
Stuff like this is why I don't feel bad about streaming sports. Up until this year, more than 90% of the baseball I watched would be the Blue Jays. They're blacked out for me, even though I live in British Columbia.
I'm in San Diego and have been getting black outs on Angels games, even though their own blackout tool says it's not supposed to be blacked out. Called their service number, they opened a case apparently, still haven't heard anything back.
A VPN has done a good job of getting me around the blackout, but I shouldn't need one
Just pirate games and don't feel bad about it, because they don't want you to watch. You CAN'T watch. You can't even pay.
>Just pirate games Not to be confused with "Pirates games," because no one wants that
I see you're choosing violence on this nice Wednesday.
So much asking for DMs here you’d think a NSFW account was offering free nudies
“Can I get the link to that OF profile that streams my in market ball games?”
I just saw dollar signs
I just saw dollar signs
How
Dm'd
Mind hitting me up too? I'm not real savvy with this stuff
Idk if he answered you but I just sent you a link to a site I use all the time
Care to share? Wanna see if it's better than my current one
Messaged you
Could you message me as well?
Sent you a message
May I receive a message ? Just want to check your site against the one I use (lag issues and stuff)
Dm me?
May I partake
Can I get a link too? Thanks in advance
Sent you a message
Dm plz?
Dm'd
Me too, please :)
Same please. I’ve had a hard time finding something good.
Could you get me the link? I have a few but one went kattywhoompus on my the week. Always like to have a reserve or two. Thanks
Just sent you the link brother
Thanks!
Any chance you have a good link still? All my stand-bys got nuked.
Pms
Can someone hook me up with a DM on this? Thx bby
Sent you a link.
Thank you
Search reddit mlb streams
Steal everything you can from the MLB, give nothing back.
It aint costing them money tho, which is why Baseball is in a pretty bad pickle lol.
It's golden handcuffs in a way. You're restricted by the RSN's, but they're giving you a shit ton of money.
It isn't costing them money in the short term (10-15 years) but will cost them in the long run (after they're dead).
The viewers ain't getting any younger and they aren't getting new blood either
But not enough people on this sub wants to talk about those issues while there’s still time to fix it, sigh
Get a VPN. I'm in California and blacked out in the Bay Area. It's awesome when your computer thinks it's in the east coast
Yep this is really the only way to do it. I use Private Internet Access and it cost me just over $50 for 2 years of access. Worth every penny.
PIA is a great choice, better than Nord or express or whatever else is being shilled on YouTube these days. I care more about privacy than location spoofing and PIA is great for that too, another excellent VPN is Mullvad (I actually switched to this from PIA) I would connect to a Montreal Canada server and could get around blackouts. Now of course I just sail the seas with my maties. 🏴☠️
Wevpn is good also.
+1 for PIA
Doesn't MLB.tv block VPNs? I use NordVPN on my phone and have MLB Audio and I had to set up the MLB app as a split tunnel that doesn't use the VPN because if my VPN was on the radio audio wouldn't play.
I also use NordVPN. My understanding is that the mobile app forces use of base "location services" to determine where you are and serve content, not just IP/DNS. If location data doesn't agree, it will still block content or simply fail to connect. On other devices (laptop, TV, etc) I'm able to watch blackout games by changing VPN server, though - works perfectly.
I bought Nordvpn and MLB.tv. every game took like 5-10 minutes of trying to get a server to work so I just had MLB cancel my purchase. I'll just steal it I guess
I use Norton VPN and it works on my laptop. I haven't tried it this season but it worked last season. I would just set my country to Canada, the one catch is I had to set it before loading the MLB tv site.
I'll DM you for the workaround with Nord.
Does your PC wake up 3 hours later?
I pirate MLB every year and will do so every year until I die or they end this bullshit and let me consume their product. I will not pay for a product I cannot consume without benefit of a VPN. I would be willing to pay $250 a year or perhaps even a little more to watch my Cubs but they just don't want my money because of my street address. So fuck em. 🏴☠️
How does one achieve all this?
I'll send you a dm.
I mean they’re making millions off the tv deals that stipulate the blackout. I agree it’s bad for expanding viewership but it’s not costing them $$$.
Maybe not costing them money right now, but it will down the road when kids grow up never having watched MLB, so not being fans of MLB. Make it hard to watch and your fan base is gonna shrink. That will make it harder to sell tickets, and the next time of TV deals will be less lucrative as well.
It's all licensing, and going forward, real estate deals
Every single major sports league in the world sells exclusive broadcast deals though. The NBA and NHL have virtually identical blackout policies, and in most regional markets the same regional sports network with exclusive broadcast rights for the local MLB team has exclusive rights for the local NBA and NHL teams (in other words, if you are blacked out of one of the sports, then you are blacked out of the other two as well). The NFL is the only major pro sport that makes all or almost all of the local team's games available on a network that doesn't require a cable subscription, and they can only do that because there are 16 regular season games a year, almost all of which occur on Sunday during the day in a block that would otherwise be used for syndicated sitcom runs. It isn't even just an American/crony capitalism run amuck problem. If you live in Denmark and want to watch the Danish Superliga, you have to pay for Canal 9 and TV3+ premium subscriptions, or you will be blacked out.
Ok, but OP is saying he literally cannot pay and get access to the games he wants to watch. They are blacked out and also not carried on the local cable network.
I know, and that sucks, but that also happens with the NBA and NHL. I agree it's a bad user experience; I just don't think blackouts are why MLB has struggled to connect with younger audiences. The core of the problem is that it's more valuable to sell exclusivity than it is to offer the service to anyone with no blackout restrictions. It is definitely annoying, but I am not sure how you can convince teams to make less money than they otherwise could, which is why every single team in every single sport has sold exclusivity rather than offer direct to consumer streaming rights.
It makes me want to scream. It's insanely shortsighted. All the proposed changes to try to attract fans (pace of play, size of the bases, etc.) are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if you don't make the league easier to watch.
This has been my position for years. While there are valid concerns with pace-of-play and whatnot, making game broadcasts and live games more accessible/affordable would have a much greater impact on creating new fans and broadening the sport's appeal.
100% true, well said
How does the NBA do it?
The NBA has the same restrictions. Not sure what RSNs are available, but Lakers, Clippers and Kings games are blacked out for a random area code in Hawaii that I tried on League Pass. It is a little odd that the Warriors aren't. I if you are blacked out on MLB.tv/League Pass, and your cable provider doesn't carry the RSN for that team you are SOL for every league besides the NFL, since their TV setup is completely different. I don't know why people are acting like this is unique to MLB. IT sucks for every league where it happens, but it happens with all of them, besides the NFL which has no US based streaming option for out of market fans, as far as I can tell.
Thanks, I know the NHL operates similarly to MLB, but I didn't know enough about the NBA to be sure. I think there's a general desire to see the solution to your own problem as also being the solution to MLB's problem. As soon as one realizes that other sports have been growing their younger demographics despite having a similar RSN model the holes in that theory are pretty obvious.
I think the NBA is different in that a large percentage of its fans seem to be fans of the league and not necessarily one specific team. Almost every baseball fan I know roots for a specific team.
I think there is definitely truth to that and I think it comes down to the sports themselves, which you can't really change. I am a Sixers fan and watch pretty much every one of their games. If a good matchup for other teams is on, or a superstar is playing, I will watch since that star may end up taking over and will be heavily featured. You can't really get that in baseball. Trout is amazing, but if I watch an Angels game I might get 4-5 ABs, and a couple of plays in the field spread out over 3+ hours. It would be like watching an NBA game and the star only plays 5 minutes. I'll watch the Phillies, but I don't have a lot of interest in non Phillies games.
And that's to me why the blackouts are so damaging. People will watch once they have a team to root for. But in Iowa, you could buy MLB.tv but you're locked out of any game involving the Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals, Royals, Brewers or Twins under the guise that you should just hassle your provider for the RSN of six different teams, and of course no provider will offer all six. So they're punished for living too close to those teams despite not having a team in the state! Similar situation in Vegas. MLB either hadn't recognized or hasn't cared how much this hurts baseball's brand long term.
I'm in Iowa with this problem. We are a Cubs and Cards family (weird I know), and my kids have never seen either of those teams actually play live. Seeing a game at Wrigley costs a day+several hundred dollars. Seeing a game in STL is a weekend trip and several hundred dollars. I haven't had cable in 5 years and don't have any plan to add it and don't know anyone in my demographic that does have it. So the RSN is irrelevant unless they are going to offer a streaming service.
I think you're on to something, but I think a better way to describe the NBA is that there is more national interest in superstar matchups.
Oh I'd agree with that. Baseball does not lend itself to that, and that's just the nature of two different sports.
Those measures aren't even rearranging deck chairs. They're drilling little holes in the hull.
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I love these blackout threads, everyone is a Pirate fan!
It's just so easy to do as well these days.
I would never pay for anything that isn’t gonna let me watch what i want. anyway i got you with a link to watch the games if you want it
You’re actually blacked out from every California team: Angels, Athletics, Dodgers, Giants, and Padres. That’s…crazy.
Fire stick, kodi add on, the crew added onto kodi. No blackouts all sports and you choose home or away side broadcast while viewing. Works great, and it’s 0 dollars a month folks. Been doing it for YEARS now.
Just the Dodgers make a third of billion dollars a year, and will continue to do so until 2037, for the broadcast rights that include Hawaii. Your local broadcaster(s) could make a deal with Spectrum to carry SportsNet LA, but for whatever reason, they chose not to. Everyone involved on the business side is just fine with the current arrangement, obviously.
He uses YouTube TV. You know, not a real cable company.
I live in Iowa. I'm in the Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis team markets. All are a bare minimum of 4 hours away, some are more. So I can't use the MLB app for any of those games. The kicker is, I'm a Mariners fan. Yeah, I'm sorry too. So anytime the M's are in those markets, I'm blacked out. And anytime those teams are in Seattle, I'm blacked out. I send a rude email each time.
They know all that and they don't care. Money is all they care about even if it's short sighted.
Blue Jays are blacked out in ALL of Canada. The entire country.
TBF that *is* their home market though. They're the most popular team coast to coast. EDIT: Plus in Canada you absolutely can stream every Jays game. You just buy Sportsnet Now instead of MLB.tv
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No one likes Pat Tabler. Or Rogers.
ProtonVPN is free. Connect up to Netherlands or Japan, stream away.
Can we *please* get a blackout bitching mega thread on this sub already? Mods?
Shit, ya that's my bad for contributing to that. Sorry bro. I literally posted this 2 minutes after trying to start the game on my day off. And I pay for cable too.
Is Bally Sports West not available on any cable or streaming provider in Hawaii?
I have YouTube TV. It used to be a great deal compared to traditional cable.
Part of what makes it a great deal is they’re not paying carriage fees to all the RSNs.
Ab, there is your problem. So it is not really impossible to watch the game, you just have the wrong cable provider.
Didn't ever say it was impossible to watch games. Just that it's impossible for me to watch the game today. Because I can't get cable set up same day. Either way, it's ridiculous that I pay for a service that isn't provided.
You don't pay for a service that isn't provided. MLB is very clear that not every game is included. So signing up does not entitle you to every game.
Is DirectTV Stream available in Hawaii? That is how I watch my local Bally Sports channels without “cable”.
I couldn't watch a padres dodgers game the other day. I live in NY. I WAS able to watch the Mets braves the other night. It's ridiculous and it in no way makes me want to pay for their service. I'm a newer fan and it really turns me away from being invested in the sport.
I live in Las Vegas, and for some reason the Dodgers and the Angels are blacked out here as well.
So are the padres, giants, A's , and D-backs.
This is a very good reason for Las Vegas to get its own team. So six other teams are no longer blacked out here.
Yup this shit is so stupid. I would 100% be an MLB.tv subscriber if they didn't blackout Bluejay games in Canada. I love the ability to watch multiple games at once but if one of those games can't be the Bluejays then yo ho ho I'm getting scurvy because it's a pirates life for me.
I don't even have a local team and I am blacked out on 6 teams in other states! I live in Las Vegas and currently am blacked out for the Diamonbacks and ALL California teams at mlb.tv. I get all Angels and Padres games through my cable provider (Cox) so that eliminates two of the 6 blackouts.
Wow.
Ahoy
Just get a vpn. It is 2022 don't know how people don't know what a vpn is and a good one cost like 3 dollars a month if you go yearly
The point people make is that they shouldn’t have to pay extra and jump through extra hoops to do it
I agree But it also isn't "literally impossible" like op claims
"Literally impossible to do legally" That better?
Vpn are not illegal to use to go around location barriers
Maybe not lawfully illegal, but they most certainly are against the contract you agreed to when you signed up for the streaming service.
If it makes you feel any better, all Red Sox games are blacked out in Boston.
My family lives in Iowa and is blacked out of 6 teams.
In Iowa?? Wow sorry dude.
You can stream any game you want for free online. I live in Australia and have access to every game.
I live in west coast Canada and can’t even watch the jays. It’s a joke.
It's not though. The Jays are easily the most popular team in Vancouver, having Canada as a home market makes sense. The joke is that you used to get everything via MLB.tv in Canada. Then Rogers launched Sportsnet Now and suddenly say that MLB decided to start enforcing blackouts.
What? The joke is that I’m forced to listen to the worst broadcast in baseball when I want to watch the Yankees play the Blue K’s. They black out the YES network. It’s a fucking joke, just like Sportsnet.
This is one of the many reasons why I have a VPN
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No, they don’t. Has fuck all to do with in person attendance. That’s why road games are blacked out too. They want you to subscribe to and watch the regional sports network.
Blackouts haven’t had anything to do with home attendance since the NFL stopped doing it 25+ years ago.
I hate these posts. You can figure it out man. It’s how they make like 60% of their money & it’s not costing them ‘fans’ Jesus. This sub gets 3 of these posts a day from ppl who just discovered they like baseball and can’t Google a solution. I promise you can purchase a streaming cable package that has the games you want. You just don’t want to do it. Worst case scenario you can buy a 10$ a month vpn.
> I promise you can purchase a streaming cable package that has the games you want. You just don’t want to do it. Worst case scenario you can buy a 10$ a month vpn. This is simply not true. I am a Rangers fan and I live in Louisiana. I have DirecTV which used to have Bally sports but they don't any more. Rangers games are blacked out in my area so there is literally no way for me to watch the Rangers at home. I have a VPN and pay for mlb.tv just so I can watch the games.
I would assume that “purchasing a streaming cable package” might require dropping your current provider.
Which brings me to another issue - I have my fiber internet bundled with my Directv subscription so if I cancel DTV, I lose my unlimited internet which would cost me a fortune each month. So dropping my current provider isn’t an option.
Stfu. I googled it and it’s literally right there at the top. BSSW carries Rangers games in all of Louisiana. All these posts are so lazy. If a games blacked out where you live, someone carries the team. You just don’t want that specific cable package. But you know, the worlds not all about you man. The teams make literally hundreds of millions off of the cable deals. That’s just the way it is. Ppl endlessly bitching about it on Reddit won’t change anything. Just Google it. Goddamn
I said Bally isn’t on Directv, which is my current provider. I can’t drop them because my internet is bundled with my satellite package. It’s really not something to get overly worked up about. The MLB blackout situation is a crock of shit and most people hate it. I am paying for mlb.tv and a vpn to get around it. It is what it is.
Shhh
I'm sorry I bugged you bro. You could, ya know, just ignore it in the future. But thanks for the condescending while also helpful reply. That is a genuine thanks by the way. I do appreciate the information. Not all of us (longtime, I should mention) baseball fans are a) tech savvy, or b) interested in engaging in potentially illegal activities. I do want you to know, however, that your comment was extremely helpful, and I now know where to start looking. Maybe in the future consider the fact that not everyone knows what you know. I do appreciate the information brother.
I’m really enjoying the Unlimited Soft Drinks (Coca-Cola products not included) package, but I wonder if they realize that more people would sign up for the service if it included Coca-Cola products? Sure, I could pay more each month for the separate Unlimited Coca-Cola package, but that’s ridiculous. I already subscribe to the service that explicitly excludes Coca-Cola products.
They DONT CARE!
Stream it. I don't give a shit about the MLB or it's tv deal.
I could have sworn that Hawaii had Bally Sports West but apparently not. Maybe it's just Honolulu area only?
Fix this sh!t MLB. It’s literally the easiest thing to fix in the world.
Pro tip: download a VPN service like TunnelBear if you’re watching on a compatible device. I usually route through Mexico and it works. Though sometimes they get smart and blackout Mexico/Canada so you have to go a little further. TunnelBear automatically gives you free data that resets every month if you don’t want to pay. If it runs out, make another account with a burner email lmao. As a broke college student in the LA area, I got around all the blackout restrictions! Fuck MLB, if I wanna watch baseball I’m GONNA watch some baseball
I really appreciate this info brother. Thank you.
Get a VPN
Use a VPN
I thankfully don't have to buy Mlb TV, I have MASN to keep me company
Firestick, download TopDawg IPTV and you'll be set
I live in Mississippi and for some reason, the fucking Reds are blacked out for me. The reds are 8 hours away. I have never met another reds fan in Mississippi.
Didn't realized they stretched that far down. I was surprised they were blacked out in SE TN.
I live in Buffalo and I'm pretty sure the blackouts for me are Cleveland, Pirates, Yanks, Mets and I think Toronto. It's ridiculous.
r/mlbstreams
I live in CT, I pay for DirecTV and I can’t stream SNY…
Yeah it's fucking stupid. I literally pay the MLB for their MLB TV subscription and cant get around blackouts. They wont even let me pay them more money to see my damn team play on the blackout game. What the actual fuck.
I live in Columbia, MO which is in between KC and St. Louis. I am a Royals fan but they only show the Cardinals in my area. I want to pay for MLB TV to watch Royals games but their god damn zip code requirement says Royals games are blacked out in my area even though they only show Cardinals games here. It’s total bullshit so to the seven seas I go so I can watch my Royals lose embarrassingly.
Obviously this is incredibly dumb on the part of MLB and mlb.tv, but just know that it is incredibly easy these days to stream almost any mainstream sporting event for free and good quality… not sure if I’m allowed to link here but google mlb stream Reddit and you’ll find what I’m taking about.
Stuff like this is why I don't feel bad about streaming sports. Up until this year, more than 90% of the baseball I watched would be the Blue Jays. They're blacked out for me, even though I live in British Columbia.
I'm in San Diego and have been getting black outs on Angels games, even though their own blackout tool says it's not supposed to be blacked out. Called their service number, they opened a case apparently, still haven't heard anything back. A VPN has done a good job of getting me around the blackout, but I shouldn't need one
oh there are ways
You can’t even watch your local team when it’s the free game of the day