Getting to First Base

“I wrote this song about you/
I wrote this song about you/

Just to let you know that I hate your guts/

And I think you suck.” -Reel Big Fish, with the most useful song lyric EVER

Dear MLB.tv,
It’s lovely that you and Fruit of the Loom wanted to give me a 5-day risk-free trial. Really. Very nice. But I’m a Royals fan, and my credit card is billed to a ZIP code in Nebraska, so your blackout policy dictates that I will never, EVER be able to watch a game that my team plays. EVER.

Coincidentally, your blackout policy dictates that I will never, EVER spend my hard-earned money on your “service”. The policy extends beyond greed and into complete and utter ridiculousness. My ZIP code is in western Nebraska; it really wouldn’t decrease ticket sales at this afternoon’s game. I’m not going to get in my car and drive from the southwest corner of Nebraska* to Chicago for one ballgame.

*not where I live now, but it’s where I’m billed. Another beef with the website - there’s no opportunity to enter a ZIP code different from my billing location.

Unlike you, I like baseball more than I like fleecing consumers. So let me watch a ballgame. More specifically, let me watch MY TEAM’s ballgame. Believe it or not, I want to watch the Royals even if I feel like they’ll never win another game. I don’t want the Giants/Astros game, nor the Tigers and Blue Jays, and especially not the Rockies and Diamondbacks. Please, please don’t make me watch an NL West* game. I’d rather die.

Spitefully yours,

Minda

*WORST. DIVISION. EVER! The NL West is led by the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers, who are only 2 games over .500. How can two teams be that mediocore and still be in first place? What a joke. This is coming from a Royals fan, no less; it’s pretty bad when even I can talk smack about someone else in baseball. If the Royals were plunked down in the NL West right now, they’d be in 3rd. But I’d bet that if they got to play all season in that farce of a Major League Baseball division, they’d run away with 1st…if even the worst of the American League got to play in the NL West for a while, they’d clean up.Exept the Mariners. They’d still be awful.

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