How Do You Plan on Following the Twins in 2021?

As usual it will be on the radio - football might be perfect for TV, basketball needs to be seen in person, and baseball is perfect for radio.Sorry soccer guys I haven't figured out your category - maybe it is the newspaper. 

Since I now live far from Minnesota, I am signed up for the MLB broadcasts and I don't miss a game.

As a northern Indianaer, it’s MLB Audio for the radio and the occasional TV game when they play the Sox. (Or all the East coast teams get rained out and one of the networks stoops to having to show one of the Midwestern teams besides the Cubs/Cardinals series.)

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I'm lucky enough to be able to afford traditional cable. I'll be watching them.

Although, why am I saying this? Buy enough boutique options and you're back with the same bill you always had.

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There are not many advantages to being a baseball fan in Europe but this is one. I can just subscribe to mlb.tv without having to worry about blackouts.

But I feel for you.

(The disadvantage is that I have to worry about sleeping hours. No night games for me during the week... )

The Yankees didn't declare Europe part of their assigned territory?
 

I'm lucky enough to be able to afford traditional cable. I'll be watching them.
 
Although, why am I saying this? Buy enough boutique options and you're back with the same bill you always had.

I am still with Xfinity, package is decent, but somewhat expensive. We will see in the future, AT&T is an option if you carry their cell phone service also, but I can't stand that service.We shall see in a year.

The Yankees didn't declare Europe part of their assigned territory?

Surprisingly not, though you wouldn't know it just by looking at the number of Yankees caps worn around here. I feel like I see at least one whenever I turn around in public.
I always wonder if it's a lack of taste or simply a lack of baseball knowledge. Probably the latter.

It’ll have to be radio for me. Thankfully, Cory P does a great job. I will miss watching on TV but I’m not going back to cable, and younger people certainly aren’t. 

I am fortunate to be a Twins fan that lives in Texas so I will subscribe to mlb.tv again and catch most of the games. I’ll miss the Houston and Texas games which will be blacked out.  I have YouTube TV which does not have the local FoxSW channel any more.  

Things have taken a strange twist. I’ve been a lifelong Twins fan from Toledo, Chicago, now Nashville. So, I can watch everything now on MLB.TV except Braves vs Twins.

However since 1964, I followed them in newspaper and Sporting News plus the games vs. Detroit. Herb Carneal was my best friend for years. First on WHO from Des Moines, then when WHO dropped them in 1980, WCCO. As soon as MLB Extra innings came to be, I got that and even listened to Herb when I had AOL!

I also made some long trips to the Met, The Metrodome. I’m just glad I didn’t smoke because Bob Casey’s NOOOO Smoking in the Metrodome would have made me quit! I can still hear his introductions to bat for Tony Oliva and Kirby Puckett. I had gotten to the point that I could do a good Bob Casey impersonation to where my friend in Florida when I visited for Spring Training games said, "You sound more like Bob Casey than Bob Casey!

So, it’s odd that I have it better now in Nashville than the people in the Twin Cities. I hope they get that straightened out. I wonder if you got MLB.tv, one team? Maybe you could watch all the road games. 

I love the radio broadcasts. I go to bed early in the evenings so I end up listening in bed until I fall asleep. I get MLB TV and even though we are in blackout land I can watch the replays or highlights the next day. Live TV is way over rated, especially for such a long season with so many games. 

I am not a cord cutter, mainly for sports purposes because you cannot rely on getting the sports you want, mainly from contracts of local rights.I would not compare it to victory sports though, because that was where big media, Fox, would not allow big cable companies to carry the Victory as a normal package, without raising the price of other Fox media at the time.  

By choosing to cut the cord you are choosing to limit your chances of watching the games.It is not the same.  

If it was just the Twins i would listen to the radio. I truly enjoy the radio broadcasts as it is what i grew up with. That said, i am also a Wild and Gopher hockey fan. The radio broadcasts for them is shakey at best. I just changed providers and stuck with cable for now. It is more expensive than i like but it works. 

I don't understand this entire debate/topic. I pay $120 per month for Spectrum. I get more television channels that I could possibly watch along with the full sports package (which includes FSN). I'm not overly pleased with the value, although it gets me all the Twins games and I use the Spectrum TV app quite a bit along with access to college football on the ESPN app. The headache of cutting the cord and chasing a better deal (with FSN) for the difference between $120 and whatever the streaming services cost doesn't seem worth it. I cut costs in other areas of my budget. And, I cannot and will not listen on the radio.

This is me, except for one big caveat. Sports fans are purposely being yanked around by these streaming services as they hot potato around streaming sports trying to get their hooks (read: automated payments) into new customers, only to yank the carpet out from under them in a couple months. The only reason that is possible is because MLB's local blackout rules need to be updated. I'm sure there are some contractual restrictions that are preventing this, but it needs to be figured out.

I don't cord cut, but I understand people that do. But if you're paying significantly less money I don't see how you can expect the same service and/or stability. But you should expect SOME stability.