I hate the Yankees and I hate News Corp (Parent company of FOX News), so, in my universe, this match makes a perverse sort of sense. It's like one of those special comic books where all the super-villians team up with each other to wreck havoc on the universe. Personally, I wish them both nothing but bad.
Having said that, putting myself in the shoes of a New York sports fan living in the New York area, it would be hard to see subscribing to Dish in that type of situation. I wouldn't care about the behind the scenes dynamics, I'd just not want to put up a good chunk of money every month and not get to watch my teams. I'd go to cable, Directv, FIOS (if available), or even nothing sooner than accept that scenario. It's got to be costing Dish a lot of customers up there. They can't even be the provider for Mets fans, because they don't carry the channel that shows that team either.
Even sitting here in a different area as a fan of local teams who's networks Dish does carry, seeing what keeps happening with with Dish and RSNs will make it hard for me to enter into another two-year contract with them. Making that commitment knowing that I could have the programming I'm paying for yanked at any time and still have to pay (Thus preventing me from switching and seeing my teams on cable) is a tough pill to swallow. Since Dish refused to give me HD equipment and free HD for life when I signed up due to not liking the results of a credit check, it puts me in a double bind, because I'm not going to want to sit here with SD service forever, and they'll probably want an equipment charge plus a new contractual commitment to upgrade- or I can switch to cable at some point and get free HD equipment with no credit check, no commitment, and a promotional rate.
Not something I'll be doing tomorrow, but in the long run, it seems like Dish doesn't seem to worry much about retaining certain classes of customers. Sports fans? Eh (Even though cable generally does a good job with keeping RSNs on the air). People who don't have great credit (Sometimes just because they can't *get* credit to establish it, and not because they don't pay everything on-time)? Meh (Even though cable will have an offer for you). People who don't want to sign a contract? Fine if you want to pay for your own equipment and not get any promotional rate breaks (Even though cable will provide equipment and a rate break).
I don't know, just seems like Dish could do better in some areas (As could cable in other areas).