martissimo: Holy shiat, checked the blackout restrictions to see which team I couldn't watch live, I'm blacked out from 6 frigging teams, insane.

Dodgers, Angels, Padres, Diamondbacks, Giants, A's

I never knew Vegas had so many home teams

By posting that information you posted proprietary intellectual property owned by MLB.com.

\enjoy Gitmo!

GAT_00: I want to know why the fark the Reds are blacked out in Tennessee.

In the continuing struggle for the south east, the Braves and Reds will fight on for control of everything from Appalachia to St. Louis.

Impasse: martissimo: Holy shiat, checked the blackout restrictions to see which team I couldn't watch live, I'm blacked out from 6 frigging teams, insane.

Dodgers, Angels, Padres, Diamondbacks, Giants, A's

I never knew Vegas had so many home teams

By posting that information you posted proprietary intellectual property owned by MLB.com.

\enjoy Gitmo!

Thanks to the NDAA, a well-trained, well-armed squad of Marines is stacked up outside your door right now! Tell the butt of LCpl Rodriguez's rifle I said hello!

/i got politics in your sports!

What about implied oral consent? Now who wants to watch me hit dingers?!?!

MLB Territorial rights map.

jaylectricity: Aw shucks, I only have implied oral consent.

I'm implying your mom consented to giving oral.

? On the Business Tab? Exactly what the hell is going on here?

*curls into fetal position*

So fark now allows affiliates to spam their links here?

So I'm blacked out from Nats and Orioles games. Not that there's a shred of loss there (eastern NC is Braves country), but why the flying fark would I ever consider driving 5 hours to see a game?

/and they wonder why illicit streaming is so popular.

UNC_Samurai: So I'm blacked out from Nats and Orioles games. Not that there's a shred of loss there (eastern NC is Braves country), but why the flying fark would I ever consider driving 5 hours to see a game?

/and they wonder why illicit streaming is so popular.

Farkin THAT.

// anyone know of streaming of NFL/MLB games?
// I'm...doing some research
// we cut the cable last month, but my sports fix is building

Dr Dreidel: UNC_Samurai: So I'm blacked out from Nats and Orioles games. Not that there's a shred of loss there (eastern NC is Braves country), but why the flying fark would I ever consider driving 5 hours to see a game?

/and they wonder why illicit streaming is so popular.

Farkin THAT.

// anyone know of streaming of NFL/MLB games?
// I'm...doing some research
// we cut the cable last month, but my sports fix is building

http://www.firstrow.tv/, but it's flaky sometimes. NFL is usually fine, not great. I have no idea about MLB. College basketball in my experience generally sucks and Time Warner doesn't allow me access to ESPN3 because I only have internet through them.

People pay to watch MLB?

I would get this if I could watch Rangers games because they are rarely televised here and I live in Dallas, but they black it out, fark that. ll find a stream elsewhere.

This really has nothing to do with SOPA, IP laws, or Fair-Use.

If the MLB wants to allow others to blackout MLB content in certain areas, I guess that's their business decision.

PowerSlacker: People pay to watch MLB?

People pay for a package of channels, one or more of which routinely shows MLB games unless you live within taxable distance of a facility that may or may not have housed athletic competitions at any point since the Alien and Sedition Acts, and said house of athletic competitions has not sold every single one of the available tickets for the event in question (never mind that a venue meant to hold between 50 and 70,000 people and which serves a metropolitan area of millions of taxpayers - all of whom likely ponied up for the facilities - will be full when the venue regularly houses good competition, free of the heavy-handed attempts of non-sports management personnel to mold the team in their image).

And that's before you get into shiat like NFLN vs DirecTV/Comcast, the farked-up nature of salaries/salary cap/luxury tax/revenue sharing shenanigans (looking at you, every team that owns a TV network)...

This works okay for me. I wouldn't watch baseball if they paid me.

MLB's blackout restrictions are a joke. Why should I have 6 teams blacked out when I live no closer than 180 miles to any one of them? Only two of the teams have their games shown on TV regularly here, one of those only about half the time. I have considered buying the MLB.tv package so many times, but why should I when at any given time, a third of the games are blacked out?

Why Would I Read the Article: What about implied oral consent? Now who wants to watch me hit dingers?!?!

Came for this

This is more farked up than a football bat.

"Subscription expires 4/3/2012"

When does baseball season start?

Lumpmoose: WTF? I thought the point of the MLB subscription was to, you know, watch baseball.

Um, no? The point of the MLB subscription is to MAKE MLB MOAR MONIES. Duh.

Would seven proxies help me here?

Carth: "Subscription expires 4/3/2012"

When does baseball season start?

4/4/2012

The linked subscription is the offseason package. So for $25, you can watch last year's games, plus some games during Spring Training 2012. You don't get to watch actual games which count and haven't already been played.

Murphyr: Carth: "Subscription expires 4/3/2012"

When does baseball season start?

4/4/2012

The linked subscription is the offseason package. So for $25, you can watch last year's games, plus some games during Spring Training 2012. You don't get to watch actual games which count and haven't already been played.

Seriously? People will pay to watch old games and practice? That is crazy.

I always had a weird set up. I live in Northern Kentucky, Reds were blacked out at home but I could watch games just fine in the office. Worked out nicely when they blacked out the home getaway-day games.

I started putting the Reds game on the TV and pulling up the Cards game on the computer. Keep up with the competition and what not.

Blackouts only apply to live games, you can always watch archived games.

What really sucks is the nationwide blackout of MLB.tv during the Fox regional coverage on Saturdays and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, though you can watch the Sunday night game for "free" on ESPN3.

Murphyr: The linked subscription is the offseason package. So for $25, you can watch last year's games, plus some games during Spring Training 2012. You don't get to watch actual games which count and haven't already been played.

I thought the price seemed unusually low, until I saw the expiration date. And then read exactly what they give you. Totally not worth it.

A friend of mine got rid of cable once they realized about the only TV they watched was Cards games on FSN. They concurrently subscribed to MLB TV, but found out pretty quickly that all Cards games (home games only, I guess?) were blacked out. Nothing a location-faking app on the iPad + HDMI adapter couldn't fix. It's great watching the Cards' games when were in Mexico...

I could see how the service would be useful to people like my cousin living in Minnesota but trying to see as much real baseball as he can. But I suspect that there's more people in the country that are fans of a given team that live in its blackout area that would be pissed to find out you don't actually get all your team's games than live in a completely different city/state/region.

We've only got high-speed internet here, and while ESPN3 has been fantastic (actually got to watch the BCS games from the comfort of home), the fact that they now list other programming available for streaming (if you're a TV subscriber) leaves me wanting more.

CommiePuddin: I always had a weird set up. I live in Northern Kentucky, Reds were blacked out at home but I could watch games just fine in the office. Worked out nicely when they blacked out the home getaway-day games..

Your office must have an IP address that's from a different market.

vipbox.tv has access to a lot of sports streams, or so I've heard. Not that I would ever ever ever use such a thing.

I, personally, am looking forward to the day when the internet is no longer a cesspool of criminal activity.

SOPA was misguided, but it would be nice if there were people actually enforcing the laws.