The Ridiculousness of Watching the Jays
As Jays fans know, sometimes watching the Jays on TV is impossible....literally.
There are several games that aren't televised at all, and next week when my Jays play Julia's Red Sox for the first time this year, all three games are on TSN 2. TSN 2 is an extra channel that us folks not blessed with the cash to afford such luxuries don't get. Therefore, the most important series to date for the Jays cannot be viewed by the vast majority of Canadians.
Add on top of that, MLB.tv's RIDICULOUS black-out stipulations that do not allow people to watch games in their own territory, and I have to either wait for the game to be archived on MLB.tv or cheat the system and watch the game with a proxy server (which is illegal and horribly unreliable).
You'd think MLB would be terrifically smart to get rid of the black-out rule. I guarantee you'd have double the subscribers and television ratings would rarely suffer.
The point is, I don't get to watch the most important games of the season because I can't afford to. Like everything else in this country, the people with not enough money to afford certain luxuries suffer. It's worse in the U.S. so I shan't complain too much.
By the way, if anyone has the same problem of not being able to view their team in their home market and you live outside of Canada and have an MLB.tv subscription, I'd be willing to switch for a week in order to view the Jays/Sox series next week. E-mail me at tgreitsma@hotmail.com if you'd like to do that.
There are several games that aren't televised at all, and next week when my Jays play Julia's Red Sox for the first time this year, all three games are on TSN 2. TSN 2 is an extra channel that us folks not blessed with the cash to afford such luxuries don't get. Therefore, the most important series to date for the Jays cannot be viewed by the vast majority of Canadians.
Add on top of that, MLB.tv's RIDICULOUS black-out stipulations that do not allow people to watch games in their own territory, and I have to either wait for the game to be archived on MLB.tv or cheat the system and watch the game with a proxy server (which is illegal and horribly unreliable).
You'd think MLB would be terrifically smart to get rid of the black-out rule. I guarantee you'd have double the subscribers and television ratings would rarely suffer.
The point is, I don't get to watch the most important games of the season because I can't afford to. Like everything else in this country, the people with not enough money to afford certain luxuries suffer. It's worse in the U.S. so I shan't complain too much.
By the way, if anyone has the same problem of not being able to view their team in their home market and you live outside of Canada and have an MLB.tv subscription, I'd be willing to switch for a week in order to view the Jays/Sox series next week. E-mail me at tgreitsma@hotmail.com if you'd like to do that.
That's terrible that you can't watch the series! When the team is on the road, I don't get the whole "blackout" thing on MLBtv. It's not like you can go to the home park to watch the game. I'll whisper quietly - I'll be watching - AND I really hope your guys aren't as good as they have been.
Julia
http://werbiefitz.mlblogs.com/
Report any abuse or spam