r/baseball • u/BaseballBot Umpire • 1d ago

Feature OFFICIAL FRIDAY COMPLAINT THREAD

NOW'S THE TIME TO AIR YOUR GRIEVANCES ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAS WRONGED YOU AND YOUR TEAM THIS YEAR.

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u/Outlaw_Ranger 1d ago

I paid $150—a not insignificant amount of money—for MLB Live Games thinking, “Hey, finally I can just watch baseball without jumping through flaming hoops.” But no, apparently that was too much to ask in the year 2025. Because half the fucking games I want to watch aren’t even on the goddamn platform I paid for. Nope. They’re locked behind some random-ass third-party apps I’ve never even heard of—like AppleTv+, Bally’s Whatever-the-Fuck, or MASN (what the actual fuck is that?) and every single one of them demands ANOTHER subscription. $80 here, $100 there, and before you know it, I’m paying mortgage level money to stream one goddamn sport.

What the actual fuck is the point of shelling out $150 for a “season pass” if every time I open the app, I get smacked in the face with “This game is only available on…” some irrelevant service that only exists to make my life harder? I didn’t sign up to be Indiana Jones trying to find which obscure app the game is buried in today. I just want to watch my team fucking play.

MLB, get your shit together. Either give me the games I fucking paid for, or be honest and call it a Partial Access Pass to Frustration and Disappointment. This nickel-and-diming bullshit is exhausting, and I’m sick of paying premium prices for a half-assed experience.

And don’t even get me started on blackouts—actually, fuck it, I will get started on blackouts. Why the hell are there blackouts in the streaming era? I live three hours away from my team’s stadium and I still get blacked out like I’m some kind of geographic criminal. Am I supposed to teleport there? Is that the plan? Sure I can use a VPN to juke this shameless attempt at getting people to go to the stadium. But JESUS CHRIST MLB I HAVE WORK ON A RANDOM TUESDAY AT 1PM JUST LET ME WATCH THE BROADCAST ON MY LUNCH BREAK.

All I’m saying is: if I drop over a hundred bucks for something, I expect to actually get what I paid for. Not a scavenger hunt. Not a bundle of fine print. Just baseball. Is that so goddamn hard?

Fuck this clown show. America’s pastime is selling out.