MLB Extra Innings 2008: Nevermind
A few days ago, I wrote that there had been major improvements in the DirecTV Extra Innings package for Major League Baseball. My bad.
Apparently I was watching the free preview week, where you apparently get a preview of services that are not a part of the actual package. Why would the previews allow [...]
Extra Innings Improves
I’ve written quite a bit about my dislike for DirecTV’s Extra Innings package. As a loyal customer and diehard baseball fan, I feel that Extra Innings has been severely lacking in past years.
I will say now, that in 2008, there have been drastic improvements in the Extra Innings package in this first week of [...]
Opening Day Thoughts
It’s officially Opening Day in Major League Baseball. I know we’ve had our share of games played already — a few in Japan, a Sunday Night opener in D.C. — but this is the real opening day. As I sit here trying to watch bits of every game, I have my share of [...]
DirecTV 0-1 in 2008 Baseball Coverage
We’re not even a full day into the 2008 MLB season, and already DirecTV has disappointed fans around the nation. With the season opener kicking off at 6am EST today, people around the United States woke up (or stayed up) to catch the BoSox and the Athletics, and got a blank screen.
Being just days [...]
Sports on Trial – What’s the Verdict?
In the course of this week and next, we’ve had professional baseball, namely Roger Clemens “on trial” in front of Congress, and we will have the NFL, in the form of commissioner Roger Goodell, also “on trial” in the nation’s capital. So what’s to make of professional sports being investigated, or even cared about [...]
DIRECTV’s Extra Innings Blows it Again
As I’ve mentioned before, I love watching live sports in the middle of the night. Last night was as close as we’ve come to a major American sports league providing that. The Detroit Tigers – New York Yankees game didn’t even start until 11:00 PM EST. Then it went extra innings, and [...]
More on MLB Blackouts
This is a follow up to my original piece on the MLB blackout policy.
OK, so here is the details of the blackout policy, as best as I can figure. The priority for all MLB games goes to the local broadcast. Let’s use an example. In this example, the San Francisco Giants are playing against the New York Yankees (interleague, apparently). The game is scheduled [...]
Rating the MLB TV Announcers
I watch a lot of baseball. Or, should I say, as much as I can within the limits of the Major League Baseball blackout policy. And of course the few teams that don’t have any games on DIRECTV, i.e. Phillies and Padres. So with all of the games I watch, I figured [...]
Major League Baseball Blackout Policy
I am taking issue with Major League Baseball’s blackout rules. Honestly, this MLB blackout policy is just ridiculous. I have the DIRECTV baseball package, yet night in and night out, I can’t watch the games I want to. It’s not just that I can’t watch the feed that I want to (i.e. [...]
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