Comments on: MLB: Doing our best to prevent you from enjoying our product! http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/ A mere morsel of sports blogging. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:56:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Charlie Weis Ate My Baby » Blog Archive » MLB Blackouts Revisited http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-278 Charlie Weis Ate My Baby » Blog Archive » MLB Blackouts Revisited Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:18:08 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-278 [...] So tonight is the first night where MLB’s nonsensical blackout rules officially affect me. See, tonight’s ESPN game is Tigers at White Sox, a game I’d really quite like to watch. Instead, because I’m in the Chicago “home market” even though no Chicago team actually has a contract with any TV station I can get, I get to watch a second ESPN News feed. The most hilarious thing about this is that tonight’s game was rain delayed for about 30 minutes, and what did I get during that time? If you guessed “actual baseball”, you are correct! Sure I got switched around from NESN (Red Sox/Orioles), MASN (Phillies/Nats), and FSN Florida (Marlins/Braves), but all of which were in fact actual baseball games. So, to sum up, when tonight’s national game is rain delayed, I got baseball, but when it wasn’t, I didn’t. Wonderful, isn’t it? [...] [...] So tonight is the first night where MLB’s nonsensical blackout rules officially affect me. See, tonight’s ESPN game is Tigers at White Sox, a game I’d really quite like to watch. Instead, because I’m in the Chicago “home market” even though no Chicago team actually has a contract with any TV station I can get, I get to watch a second ESPN News feed. The most hilarious thing about this is that tonight’s game was rain delayed for about 30 minutes, and what did I get during that time? If you guessed “actual baseball”, you are correct! Sure I got switched around from NESN (Red Sox/Orioles), MASN (Phillies/Nats), and FSN Florida (Marlins/Braves), but all of which were in fact actual baseball games. So, to sum up, when tonight’s national game is rain delayed, I got baseball, but when it wasn’t, I didn’t. Wonderful, isn’t it? [...]

]]> By: phxjay http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-252 phxjay Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:25:29 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-252 Can someone please fix the link to the mlb "home area" map???? Thanks. Can someone please fix the link to the mlb “home area” map????

Thanks.

]]> By: SJDBarney1 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-247 SJDBarney1 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:55:45 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-247 MLB Direct TV/DISH,MLB TV & FSN-MIDWEST apparently joined forces to dis-enfranchise Cards Fans in East Central IL Apr 08, 2007 | 1:34PM | report this Well folks, I'm just looking for a solution..... To the Direct TV blackout imposed by SPORT TV GODS at the beginning of this season...... I have had the pleasure of watching the Cardinals on Fox Midwest for countless years now.. All of sudden first pitch Tuesday Nite & the screen goes black.... How rude is that...... In talking to DTV reps they suggest we are now an out of market zip code,61853. Although the DTV website still says we are an in market zip along with the CUBS & SOX... Question is if we actually are out of market, then we should be allowed to purchase & see the Cardinals on "Extra Innings" That package has been specifically advertised to include all out of market games....But NOTT! So as it is folks, the Champaign area on DTV & Dish are completely blacked out from viewing any & all Cardinal games. Including ESPN games..... I know Cards fans farther south may not give a care about this,but please your Cardinal brothers & sisters farther north need your political ump to get something done with these 100% black outs.... Its not just here.. There are mega zip codes involved that want nothing to do with CUBisim.... We have no other media outlet solutions here.... Although Insight cable just added MIDWEST to their unaccessable network last season in Champaign. DTV in March finalized their DTV "EI" deal for seven years & this is the result......(Even MLB TV has us blocked out via internet feed). I would love to drop my Direct TV.... If our local Media Com cable would pick the Cardinals up via MIDWEST, but NOTT!! once again.... We Cardinal Fans are dieing on the CUB Vine up here in BLACKED OUT land.... The cross/roads of the great rivalry.... Solutions,help,suggestions anything to get this back where it was last season.... DTV openly allowed us to continue purchasing these packages with no notification from them to subscribers affected.... I feel completely violated by whom ever instigated this deal.... Whom is it Midwest,Direct TV/DISH or MLB........??? or the CABLE companies?? I'm ready to buy, but no offering to get the CARDINALS....... This is nothing less than a sick segragation of dedicated Cardinal baseball fans for no apparent reason.. The only message I get is that somebody just doesn't want my money.... Can ya believe it in this day and age?? Technology was supposed to improve our lives, not BLACK US OUT for life... Would love some constructive feedback... FRUSTRATED SJDBarney1 MLB Direct TV/DISH,MLB TV & FSN-MIDWEST apparently joined forces to dis-enfranchise Cards Fans in East Central IL
Apr 08, 2007 | 1:34PM | report this Well folks, I’m just looking for a solution….. To the Direct TV blackout imposed by SPORT TV GODS at the beginning of this season…… I have had the pleasure of watching the Cardinals on Fox Midwest for countless years now.. All of sudden first pitch Tuesday Nite & the screen goes black…. How rude is that……

In talking to DTV reps they suggest we are now an out of market zip code,61853. Although the DTV website still says we are an in market zip along with the CUBS & SOX… Question is if we actually are out of market, then we should be allowed to purchase & see the Cardinals on “Extra Innings” That package has been specifically advertised to include all out of market games….But NOTT! So as it is folks, the Champaign area on DTV & Dish are completely blacked out from viewing any & all Cardinal games. Including ESPN games…..

I know Cards fans farther south may not give a care about this,but please your Cardinal brothers & sisters farther north need your political ump to get something done with these 100% black outs…. Its not just here.. There are mega zip codes involved that want nothing to do with CUBisim…. We have no other media outlet solutions here…. Although Insight cable just added MIDWEST to their unaccessable network last season in Champaign. DTV in March finalized their DTV “EI” deal for seven years & this is the result……(Even MLB TV has us blocked out via internet feed).

I would love to drop my Direct TV…. If our local Media Com cable would pick the Cardinals up via MIDWEST, but NOTT!! once again….

We Cardinal Fans are dieing on the CUB Vine up here in BLACKED OUT land…. The cross/roads of the great rivalry…. Solutions,help,suggestions anything to get this back where it was last season…. DTV openly allowed us to continue purchasing these packages with no notification from them to subscribers affected…. I feel completely violated by whom ever instigated this deal…. Whom is it Midwest,Direct TV/DISH or MLB……..??? or the CABLE companies??

I’m ready to buy, but no offering to get the CARDINALS……. This is nothing less than a sick segragation of dedicated Cardinal baseball fans for no apparent reason.. The only message I get is that somebody just doesn’t want my money…. Can ya believe it in this day and age?? Technology was supposed to improve our lives, not BLACK US OUT for life…

Would love some constructive feedback… FRUSTRATED SJDBarney1

]]> By: boy advanced advance » MLB: Doing our best to prevent you from enjoying our product! http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-229 boy advanced advance » MLB: Doing our best to prevent you from enjoying our product! Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:42:12 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-229 [...] Your (optional) podcast author email address (Your (optional) podcast author name) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptESPN has exclusive rights to Sunday night, so if you want to watch a game that night, that’s the one you’re watching, and that’s where you’re watching it. Since there’s only ever one Sunday night game, this is no big deal. … [...] [...] Your (optional) podcast author email address (Your (optional) podcast author name) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptESPN has exclusive rights to Sunday night, so if you want to watch a game that night, that’s the one you’re watching, and that’s where you’re watching it. Since there’s only ever one Sunday night game, this is no big deal. … [...]

]]> By: Get out and Go! » MLB: Doing our best to prevent you from enjoying our product! http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-228 Get out and Go! » MLB: Doing our best to prevent you from enjoying our product! Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:04:15 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-228 [...] Original post by CJ [...] [...] Original post by CJ [...]

]]> By: Ricky http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-226 Ricky Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:26:59 +0000 http://www.charlieweisatemybaby.com/2007/04/01/baseball/mlb/mlb-doing-our-best-to-prevent-you-from-enjoying-our-product/#comment-226 Looking at the map, there are quite a few places with four or five "home" teams. I also noticed that southern Nevada is blacked out of six teams too: the Angels, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Giants, and Athletics. I've never been to Las Vegas, but what do want to bet that you can watch those teams in sports books? Looking at the map, there are quite a few places with four or five “home” teams. I also noticed that southern Nevada is blacked out of six teams too: the Angels, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Giants, and Athletics. I’ve never been to Las Vegas, but what do want to bet that you can watch those teams in sports books?

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