2022 Brewers TV

[patrickgpe]

so if the cost is 15-20 dollars a month. I could keep sling for 50. yes its a pain to have 2 streaming services, but direct TV stream is 95, so it would be a 25-30 dollars a month savings. (i already pay for disney plus, hbo max, netflix and hulu, so whats another one anyway).

 

I would be interested to see if it is easy and possible to cancel after brewers season or if a 1-2 year commitment is required.

[patrickgpe]

so now that the lockout is over, the million dollar question is how are we going to watch them. I am holding out hope that bally's does announce a subscription service that would allow me to keep my dirt cheap sling and then just purchase this app for 6 months.

 

that would save about 40 dollars a month over going to direct TV stream. Which i will do if I have to. 

[RobDeer 45]

I  saw in an email for my MLB.tv subscription that some team's pre and post game shows will available on the service.  Does anyone have any other information on that?  I currently switch over to the Bally's app - using my parents login when I want to watch those.  It would be nice to have it all on the MLB app.

[nate82]

If you have T-mobile as your cell phone provider they will be doing the free MLB.TV again this year.  

[HarryDoyle]

Not sure what's going on with the road series with the Cubs and Orioles.

[brewerfan82]

7 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

Not sure what's going on with the road series with the Cubs and Orioles.

Those games should remain as scheduled, correct?

[HarryDoyle]

9 minutes ago, brewerfan82 said:

Those games should remain as scheduled, correct?

I don't know. I thought the season started on the 14th. I could be wrong.

[Brock Beauchamp]

8 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

I don't know. I thought the season started on the 14th. I could be wrong.

The season starts April 7th. 

[brewmann04]

here is the Preseason schedule.  https://www.ballysports.com/wisconsin/news/milwaukee-brewers-spring-training-schedule-bally-sports-wisconsin

 

[Madhawk23]

Sorry if I missed discussion on this somewhere else, but just curious what the best option will be for fans that live in WI but have YouTubeTV?  Is the best route still to do the VPN/MLB.TV work-around?  Was hoping that the RSN's and YTTV would have come to a deal by now, but at this stage - I'm starting to doubt if that will ever happen, since it's been well over a year now.  

[Brock Beauchamp]

4 minutes ago, Madhawk23 said:

Sorry if I missed discussion on this somewhere else, but just curious what the best option will be for fans that live in WI but have YouTubeTV?  Is the best route still to do the VPN/MLB.TV work-around?  Was hoping that the RSN's and YTTV would have come to a deal by now, but at this stage - I'm starting to doubt if that will ever happen, since it's been well over a year now.  

Some time this summer, Bally Sports is going to release a standalone app for about $20/mo.

Until that happens, DirecTV Stream is the only streaming option that carries Bally Sports.

[Madhawk23]

49 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Some time this summer, Bally Sports is going to release a standalone app for about $20/mo.

Until that happens, DirecTV Stream is the only streaming option that carries Bally Sports.

OK - thanks for the update.  Does anyone with more knowledge than me know if the VPN option will still work OK with MLB.TV?  This worked pretty slick last summer when I was forced to go this route, but I'd rather not pay the VPN subscription and the MLB.TV subscription if MLB has somehow figured out a way to prevent people from disguising their location with a VPN.  

[KeithStone53151]

So previously when I said we were maybe 5-10 years away from the schedule involving 8 different providers on exclusive deals. Seems I was off. Looks like there will be games Sunday exclusively on peacock premium AND ESPN, on Tuesday there will be games exclusively on tbs, on Friday there will be games exclusively on apple tv plus, on Saturday there will be games exclusively on Fox sports. It's already completely stupid and it's only going to get worse. For the guy who said "it's just 5 bucks". By 2024 we're gonna be paying for 12 streaming services at 5-15 bucks a month each to watch every Brewer game. 

[BillScottCanRake]

When I younger, including my childhood, I think only between 80-100 games were televised after I got access to games over local and regional TV.  So even when I had cable and FSN WI and you could see almost all 162 games, I never watched that many.  For me, between work and family, if I watched 3 or 4 games a week I was happy.  If I didn't watch, I'd catch the highlights and read the box score and I was good.  That's how I watch the Bucks and NHL, too.

For me, the NFL and my other love (F1) is different.  The Packers have 17 regular season games and the F1 calendar is 23 races, so I am way more inclined to make the time to watch each of those events means more than 1/162 of a season.  And it is way easier to make time to watch 40 events than 162 or 82.

So for me, it isn't a big deal to me if Milwaukee appears on Apple TV or FoxSports and I don't to see them.  If they are on ESPN or TBS or Peacock and I'm not otherwise engaged, I'll get to watch them because the first two come with Youtube TV and my wife already subscribes to Peacock.  If Bally Sports is 20.00 a month, I'll probably add that between April and October.  I'll be right in my 3-4 games a week happy place.

I think the main reason for these exclusive deals is two fold, but in the end they have the same driver.  Baseball wants to get a younger, more diverse fan base because the current one isn't.  This is a ton better for the advertisers, as they can sell commercials targeting more demographics for more money.  It also is an attempt to grow interest in baseball to a younger audience which aren't approaching permanent retirement age.  Catering to other fan groups is likely going to be secondary to making sure major league baseball doesn't die with those of us (almost) 50 and over.

 

 

[patrickgpe]

I agree. its no longer feasible to watch 9 innings of baseball a day. I'm happy watching the end of the game after the kids go to sleep and weekend games. I was hoping the streaming service would be up and running for opening day but it looks like it will be direct tv stream starting next week for me. 

[stoutdude04]

On 3/29/2022 at 9:36 PM, KeithStone53151 said:

So previously when I said we were maybe 5-10 years away from the schedule involving 8 different providers on exclusive deals. Seems I was off. Looks like there will be games Sunday exclusively on peacock premium AND ESPN, on Tuesday there will be games exclusively on tbs, on Friday there will be games exclusively on apple tv plus, on Saturday there will be games exclusively on Fox sports. It's already completely stupid and it's only going to get worse. For the guy who said "it's just 5 bucks". By 2024 we're gonna be paying for 12 streaming services at 5-15 bucks a month each to watch every Brewer game. 

Is this true?  I just saw their broadcast schedule and they are on Bally Sports for like 95% of the games and Fox or ESPN for the others. 

Brewers baseball is the only reason I still have Charter - if Bally comes out with their own streaming app for 20$ a month I will be saying goodbye to Charter.

[patrickgpe]

it is true, there are exclusive games on ESPN, FS1, Peacock, and Apple TV. Its only 1-2 games a week per day. So odds are the brewers won't be affected significantly. They seem to stay out of the national spotlight no matter how well they play. 

[Madhawk23]

Do we know for sure that Bally is releasing their own own this summer sometime?  And if so, when is the targeted date on that?  Will you need to be a DirecTV or AT&T subscriber to get the Brewers games on the app?  

[Invader3K]

That certain streaming service that starts with a "U" still works as well. I've been using it since last year. 

[wildcat83]

I still use mlb66 to stream games.  It shows every game with an option to choose home and away broadcast.  I thought it was an illegal site at first even though they claim not to be.  However, it’s been up for at least two years.  Illegal sites are constantly getting shut down and switching domains, for this one to show every game for 2+ years I think they found some loophole.  I watched the ST game today for a few innings to see Ohtani.  For now free beats the direct tv streaming price.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I just found a new reason to be irritated by MLB blackout rules. My cabin blacks out both Twins and Brewers games.

Baseball continues to make it as difficult as possible to actually watch their product, whether you give them money or not. It’s absurd.

On top of the asinine blackout policies with streaming, under no circumstances should a person ever be blacked out of multiple teams unless both teams play in the same city. 

[Madhawk23]

10 hours ago, wildcat83 said:

I still use mlb66 to stream games.  It shows every game with an option to choose home and away broadcast.  I thought it was an illegal site at first even though they claim not to be.  However, it’s been up for at least two years.  Illegal sites are constantly getting shut down and switching domains, for this one to show every game for 2+ years I think they found some loophole.  I watched the ST game today for a few innings to see Ohtani.  For now free beats the direct tv streaming price.

What is mlb66?  Never heard of that?  Do you live here in WI, and does this help you avoid the blackout restrictions?  Again, just trying to evaluate what my best option is here this summer to watch games - as I want to keep my YouTubeTV, and not go back to DirecTV or cable.  

[Pugger]

We are going to get MLB Extra Innings thru our cable company down here again this season.  It will cost us about $140 but it would cost that much to go to a couple of games in Milwaukee if we were back in WI so we consider that a decent deal.

[Patrick425]

Old man post here. When I was a kid I use to collect and keep each year's pocket schedule.  Stopped for some reason in the early 90s, Here is a picture of the 1977 Brewer's schedule.  Notice the dates with the black boxes. Those were all the televised games. 20 in total. The rest you had  to listen to on the radio. There is a part of me that misses those days. Had to visualize in your head what was happening by listening to Uecker and Merle Harmon call the game. Made you appreciate the televised games that much more (it was an event!) or the games I could go to in person (ticket prices are on the back of the schedule and range from $3 for upper grand to $5 for Box seats and don't include bleacher seat prices - which I don't think you could buy in advance back then). Also note all the scheduled double headers. Ten in total if I'm counting correctly, including some Twi-night DHs which started at 5pm.  If they did that now the 2nd game would not end until midnight at best. 

So, anyways, its fine with me if there are some games that I can not watch on TV.  

 

 

 

[sveumrules]

3 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I just found a new reason to be irritated by MLB blackout rules. My cabin blacks out both Twins and Brewers games.

Baseball continues to make it as difficult as possible to actually watch their product, whether you give them money or not. It’s absurd.

On top of the asinine blackout policies with streaming, under no circumstances should a person ever be blacked out of multiple teams unless both teams play in the same city. 

So dumb. Not sure if its still the case, but I saw an MLB blackout map from a few years ago & want to say Iowa had like six teams blacked out?