Sympathy with the blackout devil
If there’s one thing that I find amazingly Kafkaesque in Baseball, it’s not the infield fly rule, but the blackout restrictions. Arbitrary rules to force fans to watch games on one distribution medium (such as a local TV station) by blocking the broadcast on other networks (such as the official website). Which assumes that you have access to a local TV station, that carries the game, and you’ve subscribed to them. Which leads to situations such as Linus Edwards… Both the MLB Extra Innings and MLB.tv packages blackout all games of teams that are part of your home market. This
