If you live in a teams home market, why do they block out AWAY games

ZZZSpeedster · Aug 16, 2005

Are they afraid you will not fly to the game out on the west coast to rally behind your team?

jerseymike111 · Aug 16, 2005

It's the home teams local cable TV rights.

ZZZSpeedster · Aug 16, 2005

jerseymike111 said:
It's the home teams local cable TV rights.

Thats some bullshit

If I live in Florida, and I want to watch the Marlins....If they are playing in San Diego, thats some real bullshit.....

I feel bad for people who live in Vegas....

What else sucks is when I live in the same state as the team, but their stadium is 6+ hours away
When the games are still blacked out thats bullshit too

PokerKingJim · Aug 17, 2005

because they can

buddyboy · Aug 17, 2005

Each MLB team controls a market area made up of the region surrounding their home location.

This allows the team to restrict out-of-market broadcasts of their games into their area.