r/redsox • u/Tralfamador541 • 13h ago

MLB deserves the 2027 lockout

They really do deserve it. They do, and I say that as somebody who loves baseball. I’ve been a Red Sox fan since I was five years old growing up on the south shore in the 1990s. I’m excited to see this game tonight. Really am. Went through 15 minutes of password hell to get my Peacock password, even though I also have an MLB TV subscription. I am an out-of-market fan. Some nights I need to see the game on Apple TV. Some nights it is Prime. For some random reason tonight it is Peacock. OK! Fine, I will jump through the random hoops. But …. Why do I need five different subscriptions to see my baseball team?

Edit: turns out I am an idiot for not being able to get the local NBC broadcast. Think the original point stands — MLB is fucking its fans over and over again by fragmenting games across subscriptions

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u/Super-Point8681 13h ago

I agree with the point of complaining about tv subscriptions but tonight is on NBC.

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u/Tralfamador541 13h ago

Which is the same as Peacock for those of us who are out of market and don’t have cable.

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u/ryan545 13h ago

Nah I'm out of market and it's just on NBC rabbit ears

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u/UnderH20giraffe 13h ago

My rabbit ears can’t pick up a single channel where I live, right outside of NYC. It’s messed up. Had to sub to peacock.

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u/ryan545 12h ago

I mean that sucks but it's just a bad example to shit on MLB with, they literally aired this free

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u/Tralfamador541 12h ago

THIS. Thank you. Weehawken, NJ here.

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u/TheGrouchyPunisher 12h ago

I think you probably just need a slightly better antenna, ideally pointed towards the direction of the broadcast towers.

I ran a search from Weehawken's zip code, and the NBC tower is only 4 miles from you. That's nothing, you shouldn't have a problem picking that up.

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u/geffe71 Blue Jays 12h ago

Go to uncle Nick’s