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The Blackout Rules Suck

Last year I complained vehemently about how much my cable provider sucked regarding it's lack of carrying of Sox and mets games. Well apparently that isn't even nearly close to as bad as it can get throughout the rest of the country. Some regions, mostly the ones that don't really have a highly associated major league team are blacked out from several teams. For instance one guy in Iowa said that he is considered to be in the region of 6 major league squads. Six friggin teams? The whole state of Iowa is a 6 team region, Bud your kidding right?

People in Oregon are for some reason considered to be in the Oakland A's region despite the fact that many of them live an 8 hour drive away from the Bay area. An 8 hour drive, are you serious? Vegas and lower Nevada are also in 6 team's regions.

What I really don't get is how Major League Baseball can justify blacking out customers from watching teams 'in their region' if they go out and get the MLB package. The MLB package should be a persons window to watch whatever game they want to no matter what. Someone in my situation should be able to order the MLB package and watch the Red Sox, but alas they would be the one team whose games I would really want and the one team whose games I couldn't get. That makes no sense.

Here's a map of the blackout regions, it's ludicrous.
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Frank the Tank said…
Another problem is that even if you order the MLB package you're not guaranteed every game. I know my dad had to order it because the satelite company wouldn't let him just get the YES network. But there are times when they just don't cover the games.
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