Las Vegas ExtraInnings Complaints/DirecTV Question

And I get all the A’s games on Extra Innings with DirecTV. You obviously will not get A’s games straight through Comcast Sports BayArea because they are not your local team. DTV offers those channels, but pro sporting events are blacked out except your local one, which Im guessing for you would be Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket out of LA.

  I’d like to see MLB take a completely different stance on the whole issue (of local blackouts) than the other sports. MLB.com has done a good job of offering audio/video over the internet and over mobile phones. But when a business does not provide what a customer wants and at a reasonable price that they are willing to pay, the consumer could turn to unauthorized sources for the feeds. It’s like the music industry not offering digital downloads in the 90’s. Consumers will find a way, especially with the new technological advancements out there.
  I’m not advocating anything illegal (I’m not condemning it either), but who can blame tech savvy blacked out fans from sharing streams of baseball games with each other when the official provider is unwilling? It’s probably really easy for fans to broadcast over the internet to other like-minded fans. And this wouldn’t hurt the original product (MLB) because ads would be broadcast as well. Advertisers wouldn’t be pissed off at all. The only companies that would be hurt in this scenario are the traditional media broadcasters that pay for their monopoly of baseball broadcasts, but don’t even utilize them in many cases.
  MLB needs to step up to the plate before their pissed off fans figure out another (unauthorized) way to enjoy baseball.

no really

Step 1: Buy MLBTV
Step 2: Find a Proxy
Step 3: Watch A’s

or

Step 1: Find friend who lives in Bay Area and has access to A’s games
Step 2: Buy Slingbox
Step 3: Have friend set it up on his TV
Step 4: Watch A’s

Hey bro, I live here too and at the bar I worked at last season they have drect tv and I was able to watch 698 CSN CA for all the a’s broadcasts. I think they are too lazy to update their website that its available perhaps cause its a newer channel. I was not able to watch all the programming on the channel but the sports broadcasts came through loud and clear. I have even just ordered direct tv at my house so i can watch. The thing that makes me the most happy about it is that I don’t have to listen to the idiot angel announcers on fox sports. rex huddler should be executed at disneyland by the castle during fireworks. Word.

and elected to do nothing, because no one hates their customers like MLB.

I live 365 miles from Baltimore and yet my area is considered in Baltimores “territory”- even though no games are broadcast for Baltimore in this area! That means everytime the A’s play in Baltimore- the games are blacked out here. I’ve never understood why MLB works so hard to exclude so many fans but they sure do a fine job at it.

…teams will get a 200 mile radius from their stadium for blackouts. That’s it. In areas where there’s overlap, teams will share. Everything else is open and belongs to nobody.

You will see commercial’s for the Englander Pub and feel right at home, remember the local programming may no be available to you at all times. After the conclusion of the games i would get a little bit of shooty babbit and then i would black out again however all the games were broadcasted.

What the hell is Frear!?!