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[Article] Fractured Streaming So Bad Injured NFL Players Turn To Illicit Streams To Watch Their Own Teams (www.techdirt.com)

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It was only a few weeks ago that we were discussing how, thanks to how fractured streaming has become, watching NFL games is becoming more and more an expensive and complicated process. It’s gotten so bad that ESPN has released an app designed specifically just to help viewers find where to watch the NFL game they’re interested in. But finding it alone doesn’t mean you can watch it, what with the labyrinthian landscape of different cable and streaming providers the NFL has negotiated to show its games. The point is not only that this is getting far too expensive for fans, but that there is a mental transactional cost associated with all of this as well.

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[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I pay for MLB TV, because I live in a different media market than my favorite team. So it works perfectly! Unless I'm visiting my parents. Or often when I'm traveling. Or is the game is on cable. Or the weird exclusive games like Apple TV. Or if it's the playoffs. Or because the chemtrails are too thick that day so the lizard people are out. But works perfectly!

Seriously, though, MLB does work pretty well and I do like some features (syncing radio broadcast with the TV, condensed games if I missed one). But it's very weird that most of my family who lives within 20 miles of the stadium can't watch the team when I live hundreds of miles away and can.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's very fucked up. Do they actually think that I'm going to take time off work and go watch every game at the stadium which is 1.5 hours from my house just because they won't let me see the team I want on a service I paid for? No! All it makes me do is like and watch baseball less. But I guess they don't care, they already got their cable provider money.