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MLB next, please. I don't have cable, which means I just don't watch baseball right now. I would 100% sign up for MLB.tv if I could watch my two favorite teams play.
Yep. Fortunately I don't live in the same state as my baseball team anymore. So I watch just about all their games through MLB.tv. Would be so frustrating if I lived near my team though.
In this article, MLS = "major league sports". Not "Multiple Listing Service" for Real Estate.
This is probably one of the best decision by any TV provider. MLS is going to blow up in the coming years. There is a lot of talk about US national team being very competitive in 2026 World Cup. MLS has produced stars already, like Alphonso Davies. Once the hype gets higher and more money start being spent on soccer in the US, it will become a power house.
The US National team being competitive in international is way too high of an expection from anyone that follows international soccer. The US is stuck geographically playing Mexico all. the. damn. time. They rarely play any European teams. They also rarely play good South American teams.
Until they regularly play good teams, they will stagnate going back and forth with Mexico. The same applies to Mexico too. The only way to get better is to keep playing better teams.
I would love to go back in time and tell my grandfather in the 1980s, who despite his age was pretty enamored with technology, that all of this newfangled stuff would actually make it more difficult for him to watch sports. You get cool and sleek looking "set top" devices, but oh sorry there's a labyrinth of "streaming" subscriptions you have to navigate to figure out how to watch your games. At some point, this kind…
I agree. Each entity pulling its material so it can launch it on its own platform (recent example: Paramount Plus), is ridiculous. 10 different streaming services, a good £80+ a month. Each with its own app that has a different look & feel and navigation. May as well just go back to the 1 provider model (cable/sat). At least you’ve only got 1 EPG etc to deal with. I’ll add that this fragmentation also encourages pira…
It is like that on the TV app for apple devices. You search what you want, you get the option to pay or subscribe, and you watch. The only hangup is when other content providers, like Netflix or sports organizations, choose not to allow Apple to search their content.
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Apple obviously does not like to preannounce products, but with a ten-year time horizon, some form of AR/VR has to be in their plans as well.
Funny you mention that - one of the odder parts of this press release is the fact that this service is going to be included with MLS team season ticket packages. I'd been try to figure out how and/or why it's in Apple's interest to give away this service to season ticket holders; some sort of AR tech being part of the overall plans is a decent guess as to why.
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There is a lot i don't understand about how they view things in Cupertino. I mean, there must be a lot of people at Apple thinking about the future - what it will look like, how media is consumed and then again how Apple can own that pipeline and ecosystem. Both on the media side, hardware side and software side the offering is lacking in ways i find very strange coming from Apple. For instance why haven't Apple just…
>For instance why haven't Apple just gotten the internet broadcast right to a lot of sports to build a moat around it - It is possible that they want all or nothing rights. There are a ton of complicated rules by NHL/MLB/NFL/NBA on blackout games, parceling out different games to different broadcasters in different areas, and then of course, different broadcasters by country. All with different contract expiry dates.…
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U.S. Soccer is a joke : that goes for international and MLS. Top U.S. club is ranked 122 in the world : https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/glob... U.S. got beat by some central american club and did not qualify for world cup last time. MLS is a rigged league. Purported local "ownership" is a ruse. MLS management decides who wins championship. Real U.S. soccer fans follow top European leagues and…
What the heck happened to Man U in those rankings? Did they fall precipitously in the last few years or what
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Yep. Fortunately I don't live in the same state as my baseball team anymore. So I watch just about all their games through MLB.tv. Would be so frustrating if I lived near my team though.
I live a good 3 hour drive from my team and I am blacked out all the time. It's infuriating.
Edit: Here is a blackout map to see what teams are blacked out where: https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-em...
And the AppleTV app is available on most streaming devices including the AppleTV hardware device.
Finally! I don't care if it's apple or someone else, but the "no blackouts" thing is big. Nothing drives me more crazy than being unable to stream a game because I happen to live in the same geographic region as the team home field. This would finally motivate me to cancel the cable TV subscription - the only sport I watch is soccer, and the only reason I keep the cable TV is so I can dig out the remote whenever the…
Wow missed that - very big deal
I have the MLB package and blackouts drive me nuts - I’m not even in the Bay Area, but close enough to not be able to watch Giants or A’s home games,
Than it’s already starting to fragment: some Friday games on AppleTV, some weekend games on Peacock
And MLB.tv doesn’t carry playoff games
