Exactly where is Logansport?

when I lived south of Rt. 30 during my undergrad years. I suppose that area of Indiana, and especially Muncie and Bloomington, could be considered Reds country. But according to the map Al posted in his earlier post on this topic, B-town, Muncie and Logansport are all in shared Cubs/White Sox/Reds territory.

There are tons of Cubs and a couple Sox fans in the college towns. I could go to a Meijer store in Muncie and buy Cubs gear, for crying out loud. I don't recall seeing any Reds or Sox gear for sale anywhere.

Yet, the only Cubs games I would get were those on WGN, and the random few games telecasted nationally on Fox [not FSN]. I understand it's impossible to show every team's game, but we didn't even get a third of the ones on FSN/CSN. I don't wanna get too mushy, but seeing games on WGN alleviated a lot of homesickness at times and it really stunk to not be able to watch the games when they were on other channels.

You'd think that poor college students wouldn't be able to afford beyond-basic cable, but there were actually some good TV/internet bundle deals we could afford. So it's not like there wouldn't be home viewers in these areas.

Needless to say, the abundance of Cubs coverage was a big factor in my decision to move back to my hometown.

At least you got to listen to Pat and Ron! (Trying to see the bright side for you)

for anything, but I might dump Mediacom for not carrying CSN. It's not their fault that they have to blackout the games, but it is their fault for not carrying CSN.

... is now behind the Cubs Club wall... you have to join, then you'll find the link. It costs $20 and you get free MLB audio.

For this and the post just after. As a Nashville TN native just moved to Bloomington, IN, I am incensed at the asinine blackout policy in both places. Nashville is a 4 1/2 hr drive from Atlanta and a 5 hour drive from Cincinnati. Stupid to blackout either. Bloomington is 4 1/2 hours from Chicago (Wrigley) and 3+ from Cincinnati. What a stupid idea. I am one that MLB IS losing revenue from. I won't buy the MLB.tv if I can't watch Cubs home games in the afternoon on my computer. It's not like blacking me out is going to make me drive 4 1/2 hours more often to go see the Cubs. I have 4 kids 6 and under. Their mother would shoot me! :)

Hundreds of miles from those teams. If nothing else, you should get the Reds or Braves home feed, but they black that out... why? To protect the Nashville Sounds? Stupid.

We're pretty much a Cubs town, you know, with the AAA affilliate Iowa CUBS here and all.

Instead, I listened to the Cubs radio broadcast and watched the absolutely thrilling Kansas City/Minnesota game on FSN Midwest with the sound off pretending that the Cubs were playing.

Pathetic? Absolutely.

I called Mediacom to complain, but it really didn't matter. The lady on the phone said that they had received "several" phone calls from angered Cubs fans about the blackout. Mediacom doesn't offer CSN in Des Moines, but they offer it in Eastern Iowa. What gives??

I'll see what I can do about this. You're right, that would raise a lot more voices in protest.

I can tell you it seems most Cardinals games are shown on FSN Midwest, with a portion on the local NBC affiliate (used to be shown on WB before it switched to CW). I don't know the exact number cos I don't really follow the Cards. I can tell you that, thankfully, Fox Saturday will almost always show the Cubs game (when they're playing) over any other games, unless the Cardinals happen to be playing. And, obviously, any Cubs/Cards game on Fox Saturday is shown. Last year, I believe all but one Cubs Saturday games were shown here.

Why do you always have to be such a downer? Can you ever say anything positive? We won yesterday and it's April 14th. Time to relax.

You are completely off-topic right now. Give the Nostradamus act a rest for the day.