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To: Mariner
They risk losing hard core fans

Their blackout policy is the dumbest. Unless you live 500 miles away from your team you can't stream them.

To make matters worse, you use to be able to get around it by using a VPN, but now they are cracking down and demand to use your device's GPS to determine your location.

Of course, whenever there is demand for something that is prohibited, someone will always come up with a way around it.

2 posted on 03/03/2020 11:37:43 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

I shifted to radio only.
I am not going to subsidize the cable company who requires a “package” to watch my team. The package starts at $145/month.

Eff ‘em.


3 posted on 03/03/2020 11:40:38 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: qam1

Someone sold them on the black-out idea being a ‘winner’. I just don’t see this working. Maybe with five or six teams....in highly urban areas, it might make sense (Dodgers and Angels for example). No one is going to pay money for this deal for a Padres or Pirates game.


4 posted on 03/03/2020 11:43:16 PM PST by pepsionice
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