I live in SF Bay Area and wanted to add my thoughts to this. I have to go to a bar or restaurant to watch my team in the NL playoffs. In order to get Fox sports 1, i would have to pay $90 a month. (Plus internet, both from Comcast, so it would come out to over $150.) Many of us fans here in the Bay Area aren't able to get either MLB or FS1. One of the cable companies in San Francisco didn't even offer MLB so when games were on MLB, you couldn't even find them at most bars. Of course I'd rather have the playoffs and WS on a network that people could get with basic cable. But what really ticks me off is you have to subscribe to entire packages, with hundreds of stations you will never watch, and if your provider is ComCast you have to put in new hardware every time you upgrade service. My suggestion is that cable providers offer plans where a viewer can order specific networks. The cable companies could still make enough money that way. They are so greedy right now, however, that they are going to end up pricing themselves into the ground, because techie sports fans will come up with other ways to get games on TV or internet.
