My good pal Jerome sent me this e-mail today:
FRET NOT, oh Shank of the west, for the gods of DirecTV are not ripping you off!!
Check it out … The sole reason that you are able to see the game on NESN as well as on the MLB Extra Innings channel is because you have the MLB Extra Innings package. If you were a subscriber like me (I have the sports package, but not the Extra Innings package) the game would indeed be BLACKED OUT! The reason is actually quite simple … The programmers at DirecTV may be very controlling and entirely paranoid, but they do things that offer some nice flexibility.
Yes, you can watch EITHER channel to watch the game because you have subscribed to BOTH!!!
And indeed, I have confirmed what Jerome says because I can also get the YES Network (one notch up the dial at 622) and watch all the New York Yankees games I want.
Like that will happen, right?
But a big “thank you!” to Jerome for making me feel so much better about myself! And he’s right, that is some nice flexibility DirecTV offers. Now if I only didn’t have to work so hard to get all my promised rebates…but that’s another story for another time.
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Anytime
