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[Indianademocrat91]

Anyone else hate the blackout restrictions on it? It's ridiculous, I'm in Indiana and get the White Sox, Cubs, Tigers, and Reds all blacked-out. I don't understand it either. I live in Central Indiana where the only way you can watch a baseball game is on WGN or ESPN, with occasional Reds games on the Fox Sports channel. I couldn't even pay the cable company to get the stations which broadcast games because I'm not close enough to the city (Chicago). Sorry to put this on all you but it's once again another reason of why I hate Bud Selig (the mastermind behind mlb.tv's blackouts).

Oh and btw GO Cubs and Indians!

[Auggie]

1. The problem could be with your cable company ...

maybe they feel the market just isn't there in central Indiana to warrant the expense or airing Chicago or Cincinnati baseball.

Have you tried subscribing on mlb.com? I think you can do it by the month.

Looks like "free" baseball is just about gone in many markets anyway. Someone has to cover those exorbitant player salaries, not to mention general MLB operations and perks like Selig's private jet.

The national blackout of radio broadcasts infuriates me more so. For a moment -- a few years, I think -- it was possible to listen to out-of-market radio broadcasts via the team's hometown radio website for free, meaning I could catch Cleveland games on the west coast! Free radio seems like a no-brainer -- a little something MLB could give it's fans in exchange for pay television. But MLB ended that too.

[alp227]

2. Try picking up WGN AM 720 radio over the air if you can handle listening to radio sports.

That station is a 50 kW class A clear channel station so its nighttime signal may be audible in your area at night, not very much in the day, so you may be able to heart evening Cubs games.

WLW 700, the Cincinnati Reds station, is also class A and should have a decent signal in much of eastern Indiana day or night. AM 950/FM 95.9 in Indpls also have the reds games but is only 36 watts at night and are a wingnut station "Freedom 95" but at least the nuts in central indy will have to miss much of Mark Levin, Michael Savage, or Sean Hannity during baseball season!

These AM stations with extended nighttime coverage to your area also carry baseball at night:
Detroit Tigers: WXYT-AM 1270 (used to be right wing talk before becoming CBS Sports!)
Cleveland Indians: WTAM-AM 1100
St Louis Cardinals: KMOX-AM 1120

I grew up in northern CA as a Giants fan. The local station carrying the giants is a 50 kW blowtorch, and a friend who went to college in San Diego was able to pick up that station there at night.