Confused About Where to Watch Your Fave Baseball Team? We Got Answers!

Hey there, fellow baseball blasters! If you’re anything like me, you’ve been freaking out over the past few months trying to figure out where in the heck you can watch your fave baseball team without shelling out a fortune or dealing with sketchy virus-laden Russian streaming sites. With the collapse of Bally’s Regional Sports Networks (BSN), things got way more complicated, and we’re all left wondering if we’ll even be able to catch our beloved bunches of baseball bros in action this season. But fear not, my friends – I’m here to shed some light on this messy situation and help you navigate these confusing waters!

First off, let’s start with that sketchy streaming thing I mentioned earlier. Yes, a lot of us have been relying on MLB.TV to watch our teams online, but did you know that service actually costs MORE than a regular cable subscription?! Like, what the hell?! The problem is, that gives you ALL the teams, instead of just the ones you want. So you’re paying for, like, the Diamondbacks and Orioles along with the real baseball teams.

The sad part is, Bally Sports Networks is still broadcasting in a few places, like the aforementioned state of Arizona. If you live there, I’m sad to report that Diamondback games will only be shown in Vic Tanneys and casinos in the Phoenix metro area, and only on exercise bikes. This gets Bally’s the most bang for their buck, apparently. I’m starting to suspect Bally’s might not be very smart at this whole regional sports networks thing.

Corb the Sports Dork is happy to report, however, that many teams have thrown off the shackles of cable and streaming, and gone back to local broadcasts like the Chads they are. This is how it was in the olden times, and I’m here for it. So yeah, now you can watch your Dodgers on some crappy LA channel, your Angels on some other crappy LA channel, and your Cardinals on some St. Louis channel that usually shows infomercials and Bewitched reruns.

Other teams have made stranger deals, like the Devil Rays broadcasting exclusively on Tropicana orange juice bottles, or the Brewers bussing Bob Uecker to a different fan’s house every day, to broadcast exclusively from their kitchen. It’s awesome to see them taking charge of their own destiny, even though the game is pretty much rigged against small markets anyways. And who knows, maybe someday soon we’ll finally get rid of those damn blackouts altogether and watch every single game from anywhere. That would be so sick. And I could let go of my quest to find the elusive Vic Tanney and give him a piece of my mind.