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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
It’s just so… 1950s coded, the whole idea that people will stay home and watch a game on TV instead of going to the ballpark if they have the time and money. If anything, having the game readily available on a streaming platform is going to lead more people to tune in to games, even just to have them on the background in the evening, and that in turn is going to make “hmm, I’m off tonight, why not go to the game instead of just listening to it” seem like more of an option.
I think there’s also an implicit admission in this that they think watching the game is better than seeing it in person and a. I just don’t think that’s true, especially with the pitch clock rules (although even before I found batters dawdling in between pitches a lot more tolerable when going to see games than at home, and b. with streaming you can even have the game on your phone if you want to catch the score bug (the live experience is inevitably better IMO but hey, I do use my phone to look guys up on FG and Baseball Cube) or listen to your favorite announcer (and unlike the radio, reception is at least a different issue). At worst you get the best of both worlds; at best, I insist that seeing baseball live is a transformative experience.
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I get why it was done. Brewers games are blacked out for me and I live three hours from Milwaukee. I can't decide to just go to a game on a whim.
I'm going to try the FanDuel network thing for a year and see how it goes. I'm thankful they at least have the same on-air staff from the FSN and Bally Sports days.