MLB Extra Innings: Update

By Ed Piper

You must think I'm a shill for Extra Innings, with my second post in a row. I'm not.

I'm just learning the app, going through all the stuff you learn as you begin using a new medium--in this case, viewing "every game" (= most) of the 2022 MLB season.

I just talked (before subbing at an area school) with a staff member here who has had MLB Extra Innings for some seasons.

I told her what I've learned the first week of my using it:

--With games designated "blacked out" due to local availability elsewhere, i.e., the Padres primarily, I click on those game anyway and sometimes I can view them.

Last week, I did this with a Padres game. "Blacked out." A couple of innings later, someone had flipped a switch and I could now view the game. Weird. No apparent pattern to the availability.

--Another team I've received the "blacked out" message for, the Dodgers, likewise doesn't seem to follow any kind of a pattern. I'll read the "It has been determined that this game is available in your viewing area...", etc., etc. Yet when I click on the game (on a menu of the day's games, with emblems of each team playing displayed--it's kind of cool, and very easy to access) a couple of innings later, voila!, the game pops up.

--One thing I don't like is Apple.TV. The reason is, I'm looking at my favorite team's games (los Doyers), and I can view such-and-such a game.  But--on one night (or day) this week, the broadcast belongs to good ol' Apple.TV, and I can't get it! Frustrating.

I can either sign up for Apple.TV for $4.99 a month, not a lot of money, but it's one more expense. And one more bother. I don't want to subscribe to Apple.TV for anything else, so I would have to remember, if I paid for the channel during the season, to cut it off once the season ends. I don't want to do it.

--My friend, the staff member here, said that she and her husband would get the Dodgers' blackout message in Las Vegas when they went there. It seemed kind of corny to her.