One of the things I was bummed out about this week being in Las Vegas with my wife and new bambino was that I was going to miss the SF Giants current home stand. But wait…here comes MLB.com with a free trial for MLB.TV during 7/11-21! So I’m thinking, “Sweet…I can keep up w/ the Giants and try out online video for the games.”
But hold on there baseball fans, it turns out in Las Vegas I’m being blocked from seeing the games because I’m in a blackout territory for one of the teams playing. I’m thinking, “How could Giants be blacked out all the way out here?!” So I did some research and I came across the 2009 MLB Blackout Territory Map:
So being in Las Vegas, I’m screwed from seeing any games this week. If you can’t tell what’s blocked from the Technicolor rainbow above, MLB blacks out the following teams in Las Vegas: Anaheim, Arizona, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco.
I would subscribe to MLB.TV if I knew I could watch a game outside the San Francisco/Oakland area market. But how can you call an area in another state & over 550 miles away in the same market?!
So thank you MLB.com for the MLB.TV free trial. I will definitely not subscribe after the free trial and will suffice with just audio when I’m out of town.
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