Baseball on TV

Last night I was listening to Jeff Erikson from Rotowire.com. He was discussing the future of baseball on TV. Now this has been a hot topic in my house and with my friends for a long time. Right now Fox and Direct TV and Major League Baseball have the right to show the games. Currently MLB is working on the MLB Channel to be set up. They have not signed an agreement yet, but one is on the table. Direct TV and Comcast Cable have the rights to the Major League Baseball Package which they call MLB Extra Innings. But you cannot watch all the games as advertised and there are blackouts in some areas. For example I live in Indianapolis and the Reds, Cubs and White Sox are blacked out. On Saturdays when the Fox game is on that’s the only game you can watch, unless you buy MLB version on the Package on there website. You can watch every game that is not in your market area. Even in Vegas, the Fox game is the only game you can watch. A friend of mine Pat Wesolowski, who was in Las Vegas last week for some tire testing, was at the sports book at the MGM. He is a HUGE Tigers fan and they were the 3:55 Fox game in some areas. In Vegas the only games on the Fox channel were the Red Sox and Reds. With technology today, I think that we as fans should be able to watch any game we want with any Provider we want with no restrictions. Fantasy Sports are on the rise and fans want to be able to watch there favorite teams no matter where they live. For the last three seasons I have bought the MLB extra innings on Direct TV, because they have the multi-channel. As a fantasy owner this is the best way to watch all your fantasy players live. MLBTV.com offers something similar the baseball Mosaic which gives live updates for all of your players as they come to bat. This is a great feature! But listening to Jeff last night makes me think that with MLB having there own channel will take away from some of the games offered to us as consumers unless you get there channel. Time will tell. But for now I will stick with Direct TV.