dola,
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Originally Posted by low
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.
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Even if you live right next door to the stadium there are going to be nights you can't take the time / spend the extra money to go see a game and I'm just plain unconvinced that on par TV / video streams do anything but have a (possibly small) positive effect on attendance. Watching a game live is just plain different from watching it on TV.
It's definitely worse out in the Midwest where you've got these places that are really nowhere near a team but who get subject to "local" blackout rules. I remember when I lived in Indy I think we got all of the Cubs, White Sox, and Reds blacked out. That was really dumb. I wasn't taking a train or whatever up to Chicago and spending the night in a hotel just to watch the Mariners play them when they were in town. But that's just an extension of the already stupid blackout rules, which were created to combat an issue that doesn't exist.