fastfinge [OP] 0 points 7y ago
At least NHL radio stations are allowed to stream the games online. If you're a baseball fan, get ready to pay through the nose just for radio streams. And of course, you get the original station's commercials, plus extra commercials added by the MLB during all pitcher changes, even if your local station does commentary/analyses during that time. The cheapest way to get MLB radio is to pay the $8 a month for tunein, as long as you're OK with the terrible quality tunein streams stations at (32 KBPS I believe, as compared to the 128 KB M4A streams offered by the MLB directly). It's extra galling because the local sports station streams at 256 kb. So because of MLB restrictions I have to pay for extra commercials added by the MLB, on a stream at a lower bitrate.
TL;DR: Everyone involved with the MLB should be drawn and quartered. They make me regret being a baseball fan every day.