Tigers not on TV today - MLB forces us to watch NYY v. NYM
The MLB has decided that games are not allowed to be on TV at the same time as the FOX national telecast.
Therefore, every game starting between 4 and 10pm today is not being televised. Screw Bud Selig and the owners for caring only about money.
Help make them realize they are idiots by not watching the national game.
I'd be a little more interested in the national games if it wasn't just the same four or five teams playing one of the other every time. We don't need the Red Sox or Yankees in every game played on national tv
Totally agree- that cubs red sox game was silly. I'm a mets fan, and know most people don't care about this yanks-mets game. Then again, compared to other "rivalry" games it's not a bad one to televise i suppose.
unless it's Tigers, so they're not forcing me to watch anything. You have hundreds of channels, pick another.
They bumped the Detroit Tigers off Fox Sport Detroit because we all need to see Texas vs Texas A&M.
Oh, I know! We can just go to FSD+ where we can see...Texas vs Texas A&M.
Definitely sucks that I pay for the MLB Extra Innings pack... and still end up missing a bunch of Tigers games on Saturdays, typically the one day of the week that I have a chance to sit down and watch an entire game. Sheesh.
Wow, I feel for you man.
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I live in Missouri, so yeah.
The Sox are predictably going way over the top with the whole throwback theme. Some guy is on top of the dugout yelling the batter's name into a cone shaped thing.
so instead of watching my baseball game like i pay for im listening to a radio station on the gameday thats free
I agree that the game being on is not cool at all. On the bright side, it got me to check my guide to see that Billy Madison is on E!, so that's a positive.
I've moved to wisconsin & I pretty much never get to see the tigers now ... is there any good way to watch them online? drinking cold beers on summer evenings just isn't the same without los tigres on tv
I'm in the same boat as you buddy. Just moved to Wisconsin a few weeks ago. Gonna miss most of the Tigers games this summer. I hope I somehow can catch the Lions this fall. I better not have to miss any Michigan games this fall otherwise I will be pissed. Does anyone know if there are streams of the games?
At the start of the year I tried using the free streams, but was so discouraged by the quality that I just ended up biting the bullet and buying MLB.tv, which is really the only reliable, high-quality way to watch online. At least as far as I know.
None of the broadcast channels had Indians-Reds in the supposed "I-71" series (named for the major highway connecting Cleveland and Cincinnati, bisecting Columbus, and terminating in Louisville). Instead, FOX boasted a golf tournament, CBS and ABC had news, and NBC had horse racing, featuring Tom Hammond, who gives me nightmares. So it was a WTF moment for sure.
Good thing Cleveland prevailed 2-1, establishing a 2-0 series lead over Cincinnati. Brooms out, Tribe!
"Screw Bud Selig and the owners for caring only about money."
Is it really making them money? This has to be the most hair-brained idea I've ever heard. The vast majority of people are into their own teams and not much else during the regular season (unless it's a team they're in a division race with). The VAST majority of people who would be watching their team tonight will find something else to do.
The East Coast really needs to get over itself when it comes to baseball. They don't seem to grasp that the rest of the nation doesn't really give a shit about them.
No big loss missing this game...not that I will even bother to flip on the TV to watch Mets/Yankees.
That's like watching the fourth quarter of an uncompetitive osu blowout of a MAC team. Eventually the camerapeople start focusing on the band hoopla and the fans and it gets nauseating quickly.
I'll save you the trouble. Scherzer got pulled in the 6th for Ryan Perry, and Ryan Perry pitched like Ryan Perry. He gave up 3 runs and got exactly 1 out. His ERA is a sterling 10.00.
6-2 Pirates. Final.
I have MLB.tv and even when you pay $120 for the season, it still doesn't help in these situations. Thanks MLB!
I'm a Pirates fan and that's why I bought MLBTV, but I couldn't even watch today because, living 9 hours away from Detroit in the U.P. and being closer to the Brewers than Tigers by FIVE HOURS, I'm "in the Detroit market" and thus the game was blacked out.
Go to hell, MLB.
mlb has to protect their broadcasters, often at the expense of fans. i work in the industry and i know how frustrating it can be, but when millions are at stake fan considerations are the first to go out the window so fox can protect its broadcast and get the national advertisers it wants.
With so many of the teams on their local FSN doesn't Fox likely lose viewers on their family of networks? I would have watched at least some of the Tigers game last night and didn't watch anything on any other Fox network. I would bet there were fewer people watching mlb last night than there would have been with local broadcasts.
the hell the MLB thinks it accomplishes by doing this. The majority of baseball fans only give a crap about their own team, their not going to tune in to the national broadcast just because their own team is not being showe. If MLB's goal with this policy is to get more people watching the national broadcast than I have no idea what they are thinking because the only thing their accomplishing is making people not watch baseball period for the night.