i really hope they do something. I pay for EI every year and willing to pay a little more if I can have access to every single cub game regardless. I live in oklahoma so i’m smack dab in the middle of ranger,astro, and card territory. that on top of the stupid stupid stupid stupid fox saturdat thing cost me several games a year. most of which is at night and on my off day, when catching a game is a MUSTTTT!

This sounds encouraging but it still sounds like there is an ‘out’ for the team. I mean technically Comcast Sports Net is offered in my area, just not on my cable system. Are they going to stick with what Selig said when they were going to give Extra Innings to Satellite altogether?

We’ll see how it actually plays out. I would like to hear even more definitive statements.

I think I saw Iowa has 5 or 6 teams blacked out. Same thing with Vegas. I say let everyone see every game, or at the very least adapt rules similar to the NFL.

So thanks for posting it. It sounds like they’re going to end most if not all of the territorial blackouts; this quote from MLB president Bob DuPuy is encouraging:

"I see no reason why there ought to be so many clubs able to black out in those territories," DuPuy said. "That’s my intention. That’s my goal. I didn’t get any pushback. The whole thing is about making the game more popular and available."

Ex-freaking-actly. I have always said: if you are willing to pay to see a game, you should be able to, whether you are in Chicago, Iowa, Vegas, England, New Zealand, or anywhere. They may actually do this. Good news.

here in las vegas, we don’t even have a team. so we’re blacked out for 6 FREAKING TEAMS—every team in california AND arizona.

for ease of reference: MLB Blackouts

...rather than worrying about whether Roger Clemens stuck a needle in his buttocks.

I would guess their constituents care more about this issue than much of what they actually do there….

In west Tennessee, we get SportSouth and Fox Sports South, but we are in the territories of three MLB teams (ATL, STL, and CIN). Three teams for two cable networks means some team is left out, if all three are playing simultaneously. The Reds are usually the odd team out. Fox Sports South will take the feed from FSN Midwest sometimes to put on Cards games.

MLB needs to look at how many available sports broadcast outlets are in a certain area. The number of territorial teams should not exceed that amount. I can’t imagine there are 6 sports broadcast outlets in Des Moines to cover all 6 territorial teams. If there are just 2 such outlets in Des Moines, then they should only have 2 territorial teams.

The Athletics are the closest team and I get fewer than 90 A’s games a year. And I can’t watch them via EI because I’m blacked out.

Sacramento is total Giants territory, solely because the A’s can’t get their games on the air here. Pretty much every Giants game is televised here, either on Comcast Sports Bay Area or the CW affiliate.

Personally, I have no idea why Oakland games that are OTA in the Bay Area are not on Comcast Sports West in Sacramento. I mean, what else do they have to show? I think they show about six Monarchs games all summer. The rest is a pile of infomercials and recycled sports shows. A complete waste.

Does anybody know why Arizona, Oakland, Padres, Giants all claim some obscure portion of the Nevada desert as their territory? (See map in earlier post)

Is that Fallon AFB? Or is it Area 51?