Watching The Braves This Coming Season

bravesfanMatt said:
I can buy into that but what is Atlanta’s local tv contract. Bally. That you can’t get anywhere?? I hate that options to watch the Braves are 130 bucks a month. Or hide your location with VPN or pirate games. It should be easier and less expensive. I don’t watch enough TV to justify the cost. Plus you still have your other streaming services for on demand and originals.
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That's the issue. Local TV contracts are insane and a great addition to a teams bottom line. They aren't going to give that up easily. The problem is Bally and other networks that have rights don't know how to live in the year 2023. You pay all this money to secure broadcast rights but make it impossible for people in your region to watch.

What's really ridiculous. I live 90 minutes north of Dallas. So yeah I'm not getting any Rangers games which is fine. But I'm also blacked out for the Royals and Cards? Makes no sense.
 
I live in Denver and can watch about 100 games a year with only the regional sports package. Last year I could watch:

18 live games during MLB extra innings free weeks, or when they played the Rockies.
44 live national games on ESPN, MLB Network, FOX, or Online.
41 replays on Bally or one of the other regional networks. Most replays on Bally are blacked out, but something like two per week are not. I still have no idea how they decide which are blacked out and which are not. I record every one and see what happens.
 
I can't say I've ever had an issue with MLBtv. I've been using it for probably 15 years now? I get blacked out of games when we play the Nats and sometimes wind up blacked out when I'm traveling, but I just use a vpn and its all good.
 
Whenever MLB gets its act together and eliminates the blackouts, I'll get MLB.tv. Until then, the radio works fine for most games. Games are available for online listening on the flagship 680 the Fan website or any other radio affiliate that has a livestream on its site, and Ben is miles better than Chip. I'm fine with doing that and seeing around 20-25 games on TV throughout the season between ESPN, Fox, and FS1. Sometimes they're on TBS, but MLB applies the blackout rule there. Same with MLB Network. Watched a couple of the games on Apple TV that they were on last season. In the postseason, I've synched up the TV feed with the internet radio feed.
 
MLBEI is not unaffordable. I paid just under $140 last year for all the games including MLBTV for replays. How many games could I see live at Truist for that?
 
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I just use YouTube TV along with a VPN and get the MLB package. I don’t miss a game. I set the VPN to the opposite part of the country of the Braves and their opponent.
 
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