I'm a Red Sox fan in Florida, get the sports pack and EI on DirecTV and have for years.
The past few days, the Sox pre- and post-game shows on NESN have been blacked out (the games themselves have been shown, as NESN was the feed used for EI).
Discussion on this subject at the Boston Globe Sox forum:
http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=15104&webtag=bc-redsox
indicates that this is a result of a (new?) mandate from MLB; these shows include "too many" highlights of previous games to be shown out-of-market and must be blacked out just as the game replays are.
The arrogance and just plain stupidity of MLB continually amazes me anew.
The past few days, the Sox pre- and post-game shows on NESN have been blacked out (the games themselves have been shown, as NESN was the feed used for EI).
Discussion on this subject at the Boston Globe Sox forum:
http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=15104&webtag=bc-redsox
indicates that this is a result of a (new?) mandate from MLB; these shows include "too many" highlights of previous games to be shown out-of-market and must be blacked out just as the game replays are.
The arrogance and just plain stupidity of MLB continually amazes me anew.