#mlbtv

context: I (TK) live in Yankees broadcast territory. I want to watch yankee games.

problems include:

mlb is a dickhead: living in a state which is blocked out from all my local teams is bad enough. all of them are 2 hour drives. it wouldn't be so bad if the traffic wasn't so goddamned horrible to drive through. what the hell. the dbacks and the padres have single team packages for in market games for 20 a month. I would totally get it If the Yankees had that! the mlb tv interface is nicer ... the only solution they have is "listen to the game," which if I wanted to do that I could just go to wfan. at this point, dude...

YES Network sucks: I can't sign up on my TV. yes, I'm complaining about it. the interface just doesn't like to load and freaks out and crashes out every time I try to purchase on a mobile device. and, on my chromecast / desktop, it says I don't live in the yankees market, but according to MLB's blackout market, I DO! so make up your mind!!! And before you say, "Just get cabe" one cable plan which has YES Network costs 240 a month. I dont make enough money to pay that.

-pay for cable so I can watch the Rays

-pay for mlb TV to watch the Giants etc.

Still can't stream the game at work ?? Because I'm not on my home wifi ??

For the 2017 season I was happy to learn that Tulsa, OK was finally removed from blackout restrictions for live game telecasts on MLB TV.  For this reason I purchased a 2017 MLB TV package so I could watch my team play live.  

To confirm that I could renew for the 2018 season I quickly learned that Tulsa, OK has now been added back to the blackout restriction for 2018 live royals games.  I don't understand this at all, the royals make no attempt to make Tulsa part of their region, let alone available on TV here.  Even radio broadcasts are poor, barely in range and half the time unavailable in place for rangers games or high school sports.  

Oklahoma doesn't even have a MLB team and yet are blackout restricted from watching 4 teams live, including the Rangers, Astros, Cardinals and Royals.  No team is closer than 4.5 hours.  It makes no sense.  Why deprive actual fans willing to pay $100 a year to watch their favorite team live.  

Instead, the only option is to pay either direct tv $80 a month for a base package plus a $14.99 sports add on a month to get fox sports KC (not available through youtube TV, sling, playstation vue, or cox). The other option is to pay $100 a month for cox tv package then hope I get fox sports oklahoma plus, who will air royals games when the royals do not play at the same time as the cardinals, or about 35% of royals games.   

This is absurd, why alienate fans like this. How does this grow the sport?? Why is a state who has no MLB team be in a blackout zone??? I’m so upset that I’m thinking about not even going to any MLB games this year.  Simple common sense should be enough to highlight the point of how ridiculous the blackout policy is in a place like Tulsa, OK.