You left out Yahoo, which streams a free MLB game nightly and the occasional pro football game, all in picture quality superior to ESPN. Also, there are private Roku channels with streaming sports. Let those with motivation and initiative find them. Reply
Not sure how you can call MLB.TV the “gold standard,” as they take pains to black out the team you’re most likely to be interested in. Perhaps they’re the best of a set of mediocre options, but I would call that the “tin standard” in light of what’s available today. Reply
The real issue for sports fan is the local or regional sports networks that cover the teams you follow. So in NY, for example, I can’t cut cable unless I can get SNY (Mets) YES (Yankees, Nets) and MSG (Knicks, Rangers, Devils). What is amazing is that no articles on the cord cutting address this despite it being the biggest obstacle to cord cutting. These articles all presume that as long as you can get a lot of national sports you’d be ok giving up your favorite baseball, basketball and hockey team games. They never address the fact that not every sport is like Football, where almost all 17 weekly games are on a National free or National sports cable network. Wake up guys. Reply