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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    See, I disagree. First, MLB giving users the ability to pay them directly is not the same as OTA using a sub-channel to get users to not-pay. Second, I'm not sure providers will care if a channel is offering a streaming service to users at an inflated price. The crossover there is limited. If a provider is charging $10/mo for ten channels and MLB is charging $5/mo to stream, where is the real crossover there? Cord-cutters are already operating under a different demographic so the overlap is small. It's not as if Comcast is going to lose much by not selling to a demographic that isn't using their service in the first place.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    As I've said from the beginning: I do not choose my game two starter until game one is finished. If the Twins lose game one, I put Odorizzi on the mound for game two because I don't want to go to Minnesota down 0-2 and he gives me the best chance of not doing that. If I'm up 1-0, Odo pitches game three because running bullpen games back-to-back is probably a bad idea.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Do you realize how powerful the MLBAM tech has become? Disney literally bought them to power the coming behemoth that is Disney+. That's how good the tech is and if you look at what it powers, you'll realize that MLB created something pretty special when they decided to go down this road almost 20 years ago. I'm not saying they need to eliminate the package push, I'm saying they could slot in the $5/mo package with so little difficulty that it's a no-brainer. Add a simple package into MLB.tv and it's done. That's it. The entire infrastructure exists to do this and it's more than flipping a switch, but not a lot more. But no, let's not break the mold. Let's just keep pushing this same system that has made more and more viewers leave over the past decade and abandon sports as a whole. It's a bad system. Offer an alternative. This is why I was soooo hopeful that Amazon - despite me hating them quite a bit - would buy Fox's sports division. They would have absolutely destroyed this mold that is begging to be destroyed.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    What a great article and it really drives home how different baseball is today and how much better the sport is for it.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't even get me started on Comcast. I mean, they're not Verizon, but they're the second-biggest villain in ISP/cell service going today. Consolidation has absolutely crippled consumers in tech choices. All of them are bad. The only real option is to pay Apple but they also have their own issues, namely that they're Apple and jerks about most things (sometimes in a good way, such as privacy, but often in a bad way, such as "the only way you can do this is to give us money because we're Apple").
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. I simply won't give Google money, though I use several of their free services because why bother NOT using their services? They know everything anyway. But if you actually realized the sheer amount of data Google knows about you, you'd probably crap yourself. For example, Google almost certainly knows 90% of the websites you've visited in the past year and almost everything you've done on your phone. It doesn't matter if you use Chrome or not, they know. And how they do it is super ****ty. The same goes for Facebook.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    While I disagree with the general stance taken by sports leagues and conferences, I will quickly admit that OTA isn't an option and hasn't been for years. I've voiced my complaints about individual networks and leveraging them into large provider packages and that's my major issue with this particular situation. If this is the ball we want to play with consumers, give consumers a direct choice. I will pay MLB $5/mo for MLB Network separately and stream it through MLB.tv. Easy-peasy, no muss, no fuss. If you want to get my money, I'll give it to you directly. But that's not what these networks want, they want to be bundled into massive packages and they ALL want their cut.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Apple. But most are pretty bad. Google and Facebook are terrible because of the comprehensive data they accumulate across multiple platforms. It's actually impossible to avoid them if you use the internet, even if you never sign up for a single service from either of them.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Really, I think we're talking a bit at odds here. I'd put Duffey/Rogers to close this series. The rest would be pushed back but those two would be featured the most prominently. If there's a situation where there are two men on in the seventh and Gardner is coming to the plate, I *absolutely* burn Rogers in that situation and let him pitch 4-5 outs. Then I'd bring in Duffey. But I wouldn't hesitate to use Rogers earlier given the Yankees' lineup and how devastating Duffey has been in the second half.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I disagree. Against the Yankees, I believe Tyler Duffey is the Twins' best pitcher. I'd still lean on Rogers - probably pretty hard - but I'd lean on Duffey even harder. Duffey's second half OPS against is .468. Think about that for a second. .468. And he's right-handed.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The average person has almost no ability to tell the difference between server failure, local network failure, or ISP failure. Pretty much never believe anyone’s report about the reliability of a service unless they’re a sysadmin. But your argument at large on is on point, in my opinion.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It doesn’t make sense that YouTube would go down under pressure. There are literally zero server setups more reliable than Google. Zero. With that said, I generally avoid giving Google money whenever possible because I so strongly disagree with how they treat user data.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Carrot Top > Joe Mays
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    They've had to do something. AT&T has been losing their ass on the DirecTV purchase for awhile now. The subscriber rate has plummeted in the past year.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    And the service itself is terrible with a bad interface. Do not use DirecTV Now.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    A good way to get MLB.tv is to switch to T-Mobile. Every year for the past 3-4 years, they offer a free MLB.tv subscription to all their cell subscribers. That’s over a $120 value, or roughly $10/mo off your cell bill.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I’d trade either for pitching, too. I was simply mentioning that the Kubel we saw in MLB was a diminished version of the player. His career likely would have played out quite differently if not for that knee.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose Hulu because the streaming service addition is useful. And I checked that it had all the channels I wanted at the time, not knowing that MLB planned to confuse the situation in the postseason. Again, my problem here is bloat. Everyone wants their channels added to premium packages, which bloats prices for consumers. If MLB offered an MLBN addition to MLB.tv, fine. I’ll pay the one-off fee to get the single channel I want. But no, baseball wants to bloat packages, just like everybody else. At some point, it all becomes untenable and people just stay away from the product (see all the individual pro league and college conference channels being pushed on people right now).
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    A couple of channels is fine. FIVE channels is not (I forgot about ESPN being involved in this, too). MLB is doing exactly what the NFL did a few years ago. I didn't like it then, I don't like it now. They're leveraging their own channel and trying to force providers to offer it. The last thing we need as consumers is *another* channel bundled into already-bloated packages. If MLB wants to charge me $5 to stream MLBN for a month during the postseason, whatever. I'll cough up five bucks for that. But to continue to go at providers and try to force their hand to bundle an extra channel into an already obscenely expensive service, they can eff right off. I'm tired of this kind of anti-consumer approach to sports and there's a reason why I've now limited my sports watching to only baseball when I used to follow 3-4 sports pretty rigorously. The increasing complexity of the four sports' never-ending money grabs is alienating a person who used to be a hardcore sports fan and enough is enough already.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair, the Brewers reliever isn't the one who inexplicably ran right past the baseball.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Gardy didn't do himself any favors, either. For example, sitting Cuddyer for basically forever, "play second, bat second", and making some truly inexplicable lineup decisions didn't exactly help the Twins score runs.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm willing to jump through hoops to watch the postseason but splitting the games over 3-4 channels is not good policy. The point of a spectator sport is to acquire spectators. MLB is making that unreasonably hard on people this year. For example, I pay for Hulu. I get TBS and FS1. I don't get MLBN so now I have to go find a way to get that channel for the next few weeks. Despite paying $50/mo explicitly to watch baseball and ONLY baseball, I cannot watch every baseball game and have to find a workaround. That's pretty crappy.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with a lot of what you said here except for a few points: - I'd put Duffey against any reliever right now. He might be the best reliever in baseball in the second half of 2019: 1.53 ERA, .468 OPS against, 14.4 K/9. That's absurd. - Berrios has struggled in the second half but started to improve as more rest was given. What Berrios will we get on Friday? I have no idea but there's a good chance he looks more like the first half Jose than the second half Jose. - What worries me most is the Minnesota offense limping into the postseason due to injury while New York appears to be sailing into the postseason. When healthy, these two offenses can go toe-to-toe and mash. But right now, I'm not sure what kind of Minnesota offense we're going to get.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Moderator note (again): we do not allow discussion of illegal streaming options on Twins Daily. I will be issuing warning points if it happens again. It's totally fine to discuss where to nab a free trial, it's not okay to tell others how to circumvent blackout rules using illegal streaming services.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think that's really fair. Kubel would have been a vastly different player had his knee not exploded in the AFL. He went from a capable corner defender to a plodding DH in almost an instant, sapping a ton of peripheral value from his career.
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