MLB Extra Innings - C/D?

is this a cable thing as well? i'm paying $20 more than one of my friends who gets it from cable. he is only paying $159 this year, same as last year, while my rates raised.

Dunno. Time Warner NY had MLB Extra Innings but blocked WGN so that sucked. I have satellite now for that very reason.

The Angels look hungry. Whiskey Tango up with that.

ha, i copied it from DirecTV's site. no whiskey here but i am working on some red wine.

I like Rex Hudler, but I don't want Wonder Dog calling all my games. ;)

^^^^^^^

tho I don't like Hudler :(

Oh wait I was bumming because I'm @ work tomorrow BUT I have a half-day due to a doctor's appt so AFTERNOON BASEBALL FOR ME assuming I don't have goiter or the clap. :D :D :D :D

i recorded the Giants/Dodger game on DirecTV but because it was the Giants feed they blacked me out. so i was blacked out because i'm in the Los Angeles market, to boost local rating (and i'm OK with that).

It was great hearing Scully even on a dull game...

nope, still no over-the-air channels.

watching reds-dbacks just now on extra innings and AMAZING moment in the 9th: color guy going on and on about how encarnacion needs to be bunting with two men on, bottom of the ninth, no out, down by two. "he's not a clutch player. you can't count on him. not a clutch player." mid that last "clutch player" comment encarnacion slams a game-winning hr. fuckin a!

hi!

Dodgers + Scully is on Direct TV 9. Can't you set your timer for that?

Yanc3y -- according to another thread, that was JEFF BRANTLEY!!!!

haha, the miracle of Brantley pwnage

KALAS

My God, Mark Grace is an incredible blowhard on the D'backs games.

I am really pissed at Rupert Murdoch right now. FOX has exclusive rights to MLB tv rights on Saturday until 5 p.m. and no obligation to show any games.

They blocked every single game on Saturday including all regionals (Cubs was listed as Cox regional) while they showed family sitcom reruns.

Die.

Owners and MLB expected to lift many blackout restrictions in 2009.

I guess they are launching a Baseball Channel next year. I would be surprised if there was no collusion lawsuit filed against MLB on this, or even an inquiry.

Speaking of which, I heard a rumor that the players' union was threatening to file a collusion action against the owners for what is basically an (tacit?) agreement to keep Barry Bonds out of baseball.

Fehr gave a non-denial denial.

I am really enjoying this Yankees-Tigers epic matchup on Fox's Saturday MLB exclusive. Derek Jeter hits his first home run of the year. What a story.

Maybe they'll show a shot of the Yankee Stadium other games scoreboard with the

MAX SCHERZER SUBJECT OF THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED AND ESPN THE MAGAZINE PHENOM ROOKIE FREAK-EYED PITCHER OF THE NL WEST FIRST PLACE SMALL MARKET PHOENIX ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS PLAYING THE KOSUKE FUKUDOME LAST WEEK'S SPORTS ILLUSTRATED COVER STORY OF THE NL CENTRAL CONTENDING SMALL MARKET CHICAGO CUBS

because nobody in LA would even pay to watch that snoozefest on MLB.tv or anything.

max scherzer is a v sexy man

so I HEAR

i just got my renewal notice from DirecTV:

You are all set to enjoy another exciting season of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We are renewing you at the lowest price of 6 payments of $31.99/month...

last year i paid a total of $189 on DirecTV (both teams feed = best thing ever) and this year it will go up to $191.94. so pretty much the same expect i get to pay less per month but added two additional months.

I'm hoping the preview week is on my cable -- Greinke-Verlander tonight.

In less than half an hour.

it's on mine, psyched

fuckin a. girlfriend is out with a friend tonight too. I will wallow so hard.

oh well, will watch Mets' rerun and Lincecum then.

wednesday is dollar hotdog night in texas btw

does everyone really call nelson cruz 'nellie' ?

kc's bullpen is deplorable

Forgot it was nearly all day games, of course

so i was looking at different games tonight and turned on the San Diego feed of their game. Dick Engerg is calling their game, what a pleasant surprise.

has anyone who has mlb.tv been able to access it today? or is it just me

Greinke-Beckett tonight

Are these games all in standard def?

theres a hi def channel & bos vs greinke is scheduled 2 be on it

Play-by-play faves:

1. Scully (Dodgers)
2. Waltz (Marlins)
3. Lewin (Rangers)
4. Niehaus (Mariners)
5. Cohen (Mets)

Unfaves (1 = worst):

1. Caray (Braves)
2. Kay (Yankees)
3. Martinez (Blue Jays)
4. Enberg (Padres)
5. Harrelson (White Sox)*

*Sounds more like the greatest of all-time when you've had a couple and the Good Guys are getting blown out and/or victimized by bad umpiring.

Enberg is pretty bad. He gets names wrong constantly. Then again, he and Mark Grant did an extended riff on the Hedy/Headley Lamarr scene from Blazing Saddles last night.

give vin scully the goddamn world series before he dies, i mean jesus christ what is wrong with the world

i just got my renewal notice from DirecTV:

You are all set to enjoy another exciting season of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We are renewing you at the lowest price of 6 payments of $33.99/month...

so the total price for this year is 203.94. an increase of $2 more a month or $12 more for 2011.

looked on some DirecTV site and it says you can call and ask for a discount and they will discount $10 off per month. so this year, it looks like, i can renew at 23.99/month for a total price of 143.94. :-)

i'm doing MLB.TV for the first time this year since it's cheaper than cable tv and i only watch baseball really anyway. hopefully the proxy trick still works for watching in-market games

now i just need to pick some teams to bandwagon

Thanks for the tip, Bee.

Am strongly considering having cable taken out and subscribing to mlb.tv. I'll only get to watch the Mets on the 20-30 broadcast games, but this seems like a good year to do it. :/

Morbs you can trick it with an international proxy server, I believe. I don't know of any myself since I actually am international.

Also, can't you share an account w/someone and essentially do halfsies?

Hurrah for giving up cable TV! The expense is obscene for what you get

Would Yankees games be blocked for you as well? (note, this is a question about access, not whether you give a shit about the Yankees.) xp

yes, I believe both teams are blacked out, they don't care which one you're a fan of!

also, the only other cable I watch is pretty much the news (plenty of that online) and Stewart/Colbert sometimes (same).

yeah there's a map somewhere showing the blackout regions - iirc if you live in iowa, every midwest team is blacked out, ridiculous

Yeah seems like the rhetoric has been foreshadowing it for a while. Also if MLB is worried about attracting/retaining young viewers, this is the way to do it

mlb is taking over the nhl's streaming service as well

Teams w/ locally held Fox rights may break the streaming impasse

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2015/08/17/Media/MLB-streaming.aspx

Arg, if I'm reading this right, this only secures the rights for Fox to stream local games through it's own service. So ppl without a cable subscription are still out of luck; these games wouldn't stream through MLB

yes, name change to Fox League Baseball is imminent

I mean, if Fox sells this as a stand-alone service I will be thrilled; I would pay for a separate streaming service. But otherwise I don't see how this increases baseball's audience much

You are all set to enjoy another exciting season of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We will be renewing you at the lowest price of 6 monthly payments of $28.99/month.

for the last few years it was $197.94 but for 2016 it's $173.94 which is a $24 discount.

i called in and they gave me a $420 discount or $35 off a month for a year. they are paying me for MLB Extra Innings this year. i did have to sign up for one year but figured i would be with them at least six months or through baseball season anyways, so i took it.

Thinking about getting mlb.tv so I can watch some good teams play this year.

http://about.att.com/story/mlb_network_showcase_games_in_4k_ultra_hd.html

DIRECTV customers will see first live 4K MLB telecasts in the U.S.

Baseball has never looked this good on TV. Beginning Friday and throughout the regular season, AT&T1 will bring DIRECTV customers a lineup of MLB Network™ Showcase games televised live in stunning 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD).

DIRECTV 4K customers will be able to view Friday’s MLB Network Showcase game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants in rich detail and color. The game, called by MLB Network’s Bob Costas, Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci and Sam Ryan, will mark the first-ever live 4K UHD telecast of a Major League Baseball game in the United States.

“The 4K UHD experience on DIRECTV will bring America’s pastime to life like never before in the convenience of the living room,” said Dan York, chief content officer, AT&T Entertainment Group. “As a leader in sports programming, we’re continuing to deliver more live events in 4K UHD and finding new ways to entertain our customers.”

Throughout the regular season, DIRECTV’s subscribers with the ULTIMATE Package or higher and compatible 4K UHD equipment can watch up to 25 premier MLB match-ups in the industry’s best picture format and most vibrant color TV experience. It’s the next best thing to sitting in the stadium.

“We’re proud of the high standard of quality we’ve established with every aspect of our MLB Network Showcase game telecasts since MLB Network’s launch in 2009,” said MLB Network president Rob McGlarry. “Thanks to this new collaboration with AT&T, we’re excited to continue to raise the bar of our game productions for baseball fans all season long.”

DIRECTV will air up to 25 MLB Network Showcase games in 4K UHD, beginning with the games below2:

April 15 – Giants @ Dodgers

April 19 – Cubs @ Cardinals

April 29 – Yankees @ Red Sox

April 30 – Yankees @ Red Sox

Visit MLB Network online for more game details.

How to View the Live 4K UHD Telecasts

Customers who want the premium 4K UHD live experience for the MLB Network Showcase games on DIRECTV will need the following:

A DIRECTV ULTIMATE or PREMIERTM Package subscription
Our latest Genie HD DVR (HR54) 3
Either a DIRECTV 4K Ready TV or a compatible 4K TV4 connected to the latest 4K Genie Mini
Understanding that once you view it in 4K UHD, it’s going to be hard to view it any other way

- See more at: http://about.att.com/story/mlb_network_showcase_games_in_4k_ultra_hd.html#sthash.zFf3qVVR.dpuf

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/how-disney-mlb-advanced-media-deal-sets-them-up-for-the-future.html

my understanding is that the second installment of $500m will go directly to the 30 teams

i'm sure the marlins and pirates, among others, have a plan to spend that money on improving their teams

anyone else getting "Media Error" on mlb.tv all fucking week?

Yeah but whatever I'm trying to watch, I hit the button again and get the game instantly on the 2nd try.

sometimes that's worked sometimes not

then i go to the bootleg feeds

DirecTV cost for Extra Innings 2017 = $172.74

i got $10 off for 12 months or $120. if i signed up for auto pay (pick the date on your credit card on file) they would give me an extra $5 off for 12 months or $60. $120 + $60 = 180 in total discounts. MLB Extra Innings nis basically free again this year.

oh, they also threw in HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and Sportspack for free with auto drop off for six months. i win.

Go Giants!

I miss the quiet between innings on mlb.tv. Those fuckin' commercials for Cars 3 and Chevy are driving me nuts.

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i just called for my annual discount on DirecTV. i was seriously thinking about going with the MLB single team option this year. they couldn't offer me anything off MLB but they instead gave me $50 off per month for 12 months with a 12 month contract. i'm here for six months because of baseball so an extra six months for $50 off works for me. i then asked for the sports pack for per and post game shows in addition to that new Grant Brisbee added SF Giants show called Giants Insider. they gave it to me for free for six months. win-win, so happy right now.

Go Giants!

DirecTV cost for Extra Innings 2017 = $173.94

2018 obviously

on mlb.tv, where the fuck is the pitch speed on the Statcast grid?

MLB has made a slight adjustment to the blackout zones and I'm not in the Reds blackout area anymore. So I can see 19 more Cubs games than last year, and also catch Vottomania.

MLB.TV's website cannily doesn't say anything about refunds, but I emailed them this morning and they said OK, your subscription is canceled and we're processing a refund.

that is a very good idea.

$125 is $125 and I'm going to need that to buy a 4-pack of TP in a few months.

I spoke too soon -- the email says "A refund request has been submitted on your behalf. If approved, please be advised it normally takes banks 5-7 business days to release these funds." So it's a maybe, not a certainty.

due to my deteriorating income, I turned off the automatic renewal last year.

it'd be nice if they let us stream last year's games for free.

refund approved

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/12/21/sources-main-street-misses-cardinals-payment-will-shutter-if-it-cannot-sell-to-dazn/

Probably not the right thread for this, but I don't think the right thread for general streaming/broadcasting/p!rating has been created.

you should create such a thread, particularly with MLB.tv having recently been sold off to ESPN (a classic move by owners looking for short-term gain with no care at all for the future of the game)

I want to do this but I kind of want to include a roundup of streaming rights by team as well as league-wide. Need to pull the data together. I might lose interest.

well you needn't be an investigative reporter -- do whatever you feel like!

I've been looking for something like this, https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/01/each-teams-local-broadcasting-arrangement.html , but more recent. This is just under two years old and I'm sure some stuff has changed.

So last year was the first year I actually picked up mlb.tv precisely because they had a broadcast deal with the Bay Area broadcaster NBC to allow me to watch Giants games without blackout restrictions (as long as it wasn't on an exclusive streaming platform)

Would suck if that is not on the table this year, though I'm guessing it will probably be on the table, but more expensive and with more excluded games due to other streamers