I know its been talked about this past week but what a joke MLB is. They sold the exclusive rights to show games to Direct TV. With it available to everyone, there was an estimated 60 mil subscribers getting the extra inninings in demand baseball package. Direct Tv has 10 mil customers (not necessarily sport package subscribers). Now where is the logic? I know they offered 70 mil 10 years but so did places like Comcast but the problem was with the new MLB channel, like the NFL channel, which package plan to put it on, yada yada yada. Now here in Jersey I am up sh$%s creek, unless I get Direct TV. MLB is totally fine with it too. Typical baseball, they let the players have no rules, use illegal substances etc....Now America's past time will soon be a pre-historic past time, with more and more fans out in the dark. They may be competing with hockey for ratings the way they are going now. Sorry hate to rant but when I read this in the paper and researched it online, it is just totally absurd.
I'm a DirectTV customer so it's not a big deal to me, but when I heard that this weekend I wondered why they did it that way. DirecTV has had exclusives before, the NFL and NBA packages were at one time only available on DirecTV. They also have had the exclusive in the past to ESPN Gameplan which allows you to see out of market college football. I am pretty sure the MLB Extra Innings started on DirecTV as an exclusive, but if they opened it up to cable subscribers and were making money on it I wonder why they went back to exclusive DirecTV. It's not like Cable is going to go away.