quick rant: mlb's streaming model encourages sailing the seven seas
context: I (TK) live in Yankees broadcast territory. I want to watch yankee games.
problems include:
mlb is a dickhead: living in a state which is blocked out from all my local teams is bad enough. all of them are 2 hour drives. it wouldn't be so bad if the traffic wasn't so goddamned horrible to drive through. what the hell. the dbacks and the padres have single team packages for in market games for 20 a month. I would totally get it If the Yankees had that! the mlb tv interface is nicer ... the only solution they have is "listen to the game," which if I wanted to do that I could just go to wfan. at this point, dude...
YES Network sucks: I can't sign up on my TV. yes, I'm complaining about it. the interface just doesn't like to load and freaks out and crashes out every time I try to purchase on a mobile device. and, on my chromecast / desktop, it says I don't live in the yankees market, but according to MLB's blackout market, I DO! so make up your mind!!! And before you say, "Just get cabe" one cable plan which has YES Network costs 240 a month. I dont make enough money to pay that.
Prime video solves half my problems: listen catching those Yankees games are fire but come on?? fuck RSNs, I'm not paying for cable.
