Baseball
Monday, September 30, 2024
My Open Letter To MLB.TV
My Open Letter To MLB.TV:
Since I do not have the right to speak for all baseball fans who are being taken advantage of by MLB.TV and Spectrum, I will only speak for myself while knowing that you have 1,000s, maybe 10s of 1000s, maybe 100s of 1000s of potential subscribers who...have no forum from which to speak out.
I will have to give my particulars so readers will understand if they don't already:
I was a subscriber to Charter/Spectrum for 25-30 years, paid them many $1000s, and I don't want them any more. But, I am a long-time Atlanta Braves' fan. Problem is, Truist Field is 255 miles from me...4 hours and 7 minutes thru mostly awful traffic...and St. Louis and Cincinnati are over 5 1/2 hours. So, Atlanta is the closest MLB team. Yet, all three are blacked out, not only for home games but road games, too. (To top it all off, I am 72, can't do stairs well...)
Now, I am also a subscriber to MLB.TV. Yet, I can not watch a major league game from any of those three cities. I PAY for a subscription to MLB to only watch the Marlins.
Why can I not watch my "local" :) teams? Let me be clear...I don't WANT to be a Spectrum customer. Why do you insist that I be one? Money? I already PAY YOU for a subscription.
Please...your priority needs to be MLB baseball and its fans...not cable TV networks.
Since I do not have the right to speak for all baseball fans who are being taken advantage of by MLB.TV and Spectrum, I will only speak for myself while knowing that you have 1,000s, maybe 10s of 1000s, maybe 100s of 1000s of potential subscribers who...have no forum from which to speak out.
I will have to give my particulars so readers will understand if they don't already:
I was a subscriber to Charter/Spectrum for 25-30 years, paid them many $1000s, and I don't want them any more. But, I am a long-time Atlanta Braves' fan. Problem is, Truist Field is 255 miles from me...4 hours and 7 minutes thru mostly awful traffic...and St. Louis and Cincinnati are over 5 1/2 hours. So, Atlanta is the closest MLB team. Yet, all three are blacked out, not only for home games but road games, too. (To top it all off, I am 72, can't do stairs well...)
Now, I am also a subscriber to MLB.TV. Yet, I can not watch a major league game from any of those three cities. I PAY for a subscription to MLB to only watch the Marlins.
Why can I not watch my "local" :) teams? Let me be clear...I don't WANT to be a Spectrum customer. Why do you insist that I be one? Money? I already PAY YOU for a subscription.
Please...your priority needs to be MLB baseball and its fans...not cable TV networks.
