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05-01-2024, 11:48 AM | #2 | |
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Meanwhile you can watch most Chiefs game on local TV or accessible networks (other than the bullshit 1 off streaming game a year. **** that) all across the Midwest including all of Missouri both ends of the state. |
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05-01-2024, 11:53 AM | #3 | |
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I would just as soon the Cards would stream every game (no blackouts) and then I would buy it. Simple. |
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05-01-2024, 11:58 AM | #4 | |
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05-01-2024, 12:11 PM | #5 |
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Bally Sports got bought by Sinclair Media and Sinclair promptly drove it into a MFing mountain. This was wholly a product of the Fox Sport group getting purchased and parted out. And I don't imagine MLB expected that to happen. The Regional Sports Networks were a perfect solution for baseball - baseball is largely a regional sport. The teams get followed by their local fanbase but it hasn't generated a true 'national' market for probably 50 years. There are just too damn many games played for folks to care about any single game on a Thursday where they don't have a rooting interest. But the RSNs addressed that perfectly and brought a level of access that was largely unprecedented. What we have now is somehow STILL better than what we had in, say, 1997. But it's certainly a roll-back of 25 years of progress on that front. It's a mess. But at least as it relates to this specific mess, I'm not positive there was anything else that MLB could've done. |
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05-01-2024, 12:30 PM | #6 | |
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RSN were available on all cable and satellite platforms (before there even was streaming) since I started watching the Cards in 1995 or 96'. Most cable packages it was standard programming back in the day. What I don't understand is how Bally or Sinclair or whoever owns the rights to the team's games doesn't seem to understand that accessibility is how they make money rather than continually feuding with service providers. And yes MLB seemed to get blindsided by it. Hopefully in the end MLB takes the nonsense over and you can start getting your teams channels independently. |
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05-01-2024, 02:26 PM | #7 | |
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05-02-2024, 06:00 AM | #8 | |
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05-02-2024, 07:29 AM | #9 |
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That doesn't work for people in market, only out of market. See how ridiculous this is? Its easier for out of market fans to watch the games than in market fans.
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05-02-2024, 07:32 AM | #10 |
What's up braj?
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There’s six teams I get blacked out of in Des Moines. If those teams aren’t playing each other that’s almost half the league I could be blacked out of at any given day. Closest stadium to me is 3 hours away.
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05-02-2024, 07:56 AM | #11 |
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05-01-2024, 10:54 AM | #12 |
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05-01-2024, 02:10 PM | #13 |
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Victor Scott's OPS in Memphis is below .400 right now.
We pushed that kids development back 2 full seasons. And honestly, we should just acknowledge that and move him down to Springfield with the idea that he spends all of 2024 there, most of 2025 in Memphis and maybe sees the bigs in 2026. This team raw-dogged the shit out of that kid. Just unbelievable how bad they are at this. |
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05-01-2024, 02:16 PM | #14 |
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He'll end up traded to the Ray's for peanuts then magically become a legit force
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05-01-2024, 02:22 PM | #15 | |
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He's a guy we'll insist is amazing and waste 3,000 PAs on over 7 years of bouncing around the lineup and burning through option seasons. In the meantime we'll trade 2 players BETTER than him. One benefit to the Ozuna deal is that it at least kept us from doing that with Magneuris Sierra. Ricky and Butters would still be rubbing themselves raw over his occasional catches in the OF while batting .215 with an OPS of .650. "Man he can really pick it. You can see why the Cardinals value him so much. That defense and his speed on the bases makes him a big part of this Cardinal core..." |
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