Paulie4Pres

Well, the White Sox season has been over since March. Neither the Bulls or Blackhawks will have started their season come that deadline. So I'm not sure why it matters that NBC Sports will still be available until 10/1?

Weird. The Capitals and Wizards fans suffered through no such thing. Oh, that's because they made the best decision for their fanbase, and not their owner's pocket.

NBC Sports Chicago will be shutdown before the Bulls or Blackhawks play a single regular season game. I would put $1000 on CHSN not being available on YouTube OR Xfinity come October 1st.

So their customers will suffer so they have leverage to deal with Xfinity and streaming providers. All in the name of the almighty dollar. Again, see my post above. They could have avoided all of these headaches by doing exactly what the Capitals/Wizards JUST did in Washington. They CHOSE not to. Almost assuredly because it would cost JR and Wirtz more money.

Hawks preseason starts in a week. Bulls preseason starts in three weeks. They haven't even mentioned the workings of a deal with Xfinity or YouTube TV. I doubt they ever get a channel with YouTube TV. If they do, that's going to take a significant amount of time. Hell, they haven't even finalized the deal with DirecTV yet! I'm not complaining about it being available OTA. The games being broadcast for free OTA is a GREAT SUPPLEMENT for people that don't have existing services to watch the game. But to not offer the same availability to Xfinity and YouTube TV customers that you did previously is a huge gaffe on their part. There's a large portion of their fanbase that is just going to say f*** it, and not watch their shitty teams. They vastly overestimate brand loyalty here. Just a couple more billionaires who are attempting to squeeze more profit out of their product, at the expense of the consumer. They are, once again, screwing their fanbase to do so. The owner of the Washington Capitals and Wizards bought the rights to NBC Sports Washington and rebranded it. Which leads to a seamless transition for your fans and customer base. No agreements needed with providers. No channel changes. No changes in production quality. Just a logo and some branding changes, and you're off running. These greedy, incompetent assholes decided they didn't want to pay that cost. They decided instead, that they wanted to just blow it all up. It's going to bite them in the ass. Telling your fans who have been watching the team for years on their existing services to "just go buy an antenna and hook it up" to watch your team is marketing malfeasance. The overwhelming majority of their fanbase(old people) probably isn't even capable of figuring that out without some kind of technical assistance. Especially if you have a wall mounted TV, and have never dealt with an internal TV tuner on your Smart TV before....

It's an inferior product because you can't pause the game, rewind the game, or record the game, without spending at least another $100.. OTA broadcast quality also depends entirely on your signal quality. You know, since it's using radio waves? Ever park your car in the garage and have some radio stations that start breaking up? Have fun with that if you live in a location that doesn't get a good quality signal for the channels they put these teams on. Which will absolutely happen for some people. Why do you think we went away from having giant antennas on our roofs in favor of cable connections? I'm not even getting into the colossal pain in the ass it is to pipe your OTA audio into a receiver if you have a surround setup in your house....

It's the principle here. Why should I have to spend any amount of money, for an inferior product? Most people already have some kind of TV subscription, so none of this is "free". Whether that be DirecTV(the only provider these imbeciles have a deal with, lol), Xfinity, or YouTube TV. Nobody is cancelling their subscriptions because they can watch these teams OTA. An OTA antenna is also a downgrade in every way for watching sports. No rewind, no pause, no recording, inferior PQ. You want that, you get to spend more money. Not to mention, signal issues. Also, plugging an antenna into a TV works for some people at home (I would have to literally take my 65 inch TV off the wall to do this, but I digress.) You know where plugging an antenna in doesn't work? At all the bars that you might want to watch a Bulls/Blackhawks game in a couple weeks... Most of which, have Xfinity as their provider....which these clowns don't have a deal with yet. They should have had streaming and broadcast rights sorted out months ago, with two of these teams starting their season in a couple weeks. The Bulls and Blackhawks are going to start the season with most customers unable to view the games without installing a damn antenna. Let that sink in.

Most televisions don't, in fact, have an OTA tuner that works without an external antenna... Which is why they have a port specifically labeled "cable/ant". Most have a tuner, but those require....an antenna.

This is honestly absolutely hilarious. It's 2024. While free OTA broadcasts are nice, nobody is hooking up a fucking antenna to watch the Bulls, Blackhawks, or White Sox. I'm not sure it would even be possible to do such a thing in a bar where the wiring is already in place. The fact that the Bulls and Blackhawks are going to start the season, and the only broadcast company they have worked out a deal with is.... Direct TV, is truly amazing levels of incompetence. This doesn't surprise me from a Reinsdorf perspective, but I expect better business and decision making out of the Blackhawks. It's shocking they hitched their horse to this stupidity. Also, nice of them to make sure we will have HD broadcasts for hockey in....*checks notes* 2024. Hockey isn't even watchable in SD once you've watched in HD and 4k.

Well, with Maldonado gone, someone has to bat .100....

You think this team is capable of winning 9 of 14? Lol.

If they folded the franchise would anyone even care?

Someone needs to tell me why this kid was EVER a highly rated prospect.

Total fucking incompetence at all levels.

The fact that the White Sox traded for this guy is a colossal red flag, and gives me zero hope for the future of this team. You only needed to watch him play 3-4 games to realize he's absolute dogshit. He's a terrible baseball player who is a liability anywhere in the field, who can't fucking hit. What the f*** could they have possibly seen in him to make them think: "Yeah, that's the prospect we want."?

Most of us saw the iceberg. We just didn't think the ship would sink in 34 seconds.

This is not a major league baseball team, so their chances of beating ANYONE are slim to none. The Angels are still an MLB team. Not to mention, the players are completely 100% checked out.

Better chance of this team losing every game for the rest of the season.

I wonder what the record is for 0 and 1 run games? Because.....this team is right there.

What a fucking loser.

I don't blame a single player on the Sox if they tune out the coaching staff. If it is clear to fans that these guys are incompetent morons, how clear do you think it is to professional baseball players who have played for great baseball coaches most of their lives? Nah. Agree to disagree here. Way too many examples of players(pitchers especially) who leave this organization and improve elsewhere. They are the laughing stock of baseball(professional sports actually) and every single player/coach in the MLB knows it.

LMAO

You blame a guy for being uncoachable, when he got traded and ....immediately started listening to the coaches in an organization that isn't incompetent top to bottom? Weird take. Plenty of terrible coaches up and down professional sports that players don't respect and listen to. It's why most of them end up having short careers... I blame the White Sox for employing a bunch of fucking morons that players know don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about. I've played and coached a lot of sports, and know plenty of coaches who EVERYONE knew was clueless.

Basically everyone the Sox traded away, is playing really well.

Just fucking lol @ this team's incompetence.