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Brushback — MLB Streaming Mess

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Happy Wednesday!

Remember when watching baseball meant turning on the TV, grabbing a beer, and finding your team on the local channel? Yeah, me neither.

These days, baseball feels more like a subscription scavenger hunt. Apple TV on Friday, Roku on Sunday, ESPN+ sprinkled in, Fox One launching, and MLB.TV where full price still means no hometown games, thanks to blackout rules.

And that’s before you figure out which password you forgot this week. Regional sports networks are collapsing faster than a middle reliever in Coors Field, and MLB’s answer so far has been a shrug and another streaming deal.

Meanwhile, half the country is juggling apps like it’s fantasy football for logins, praying their WiFi doesn’t glitch in the 8th inning.

Here’s the question: does MLB actually want people to watch games? Baseball has turned “watching the game” into a tech support call.

Baseball’s future depends on younger fans, but good luck convincing a 15-year-old to track down four different apps just to see a Tuesday night Orioles-Rays matchup.

Fix the mess, already.

Oh, and rumor has it Apple’s out, Peacock’s in, ESPN’s circling MLB.TV and Netflix gets the Derby. Nothing official yet — but in this streaming circus, would anyone be surprised?

John Boxley