FS Detroit annnounces television schedule for Tigers
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 8, 2010 10:36 PM EST
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PrintJust following up on the earlier FanShot from SabreRoseTiger, FS Detroit announced its schedule of games this year, both for the regular season and during spring training.
First, the good news. FS Detroit has 157 games this season, and "the vast majority" of them will be in high definition. Just once are the Tigers set to be bumped to FS Detroit Plus. So that's great to hear.
The bad news? Well, you know how the day after opening day is like the longest baseball off day of the season? It might be a bit longer. The Tigers open against the Royals on April 5, and have a built in rain date of April 6. However, the game on April 7 is not currently scheduled to air on TV. Back in the day, we were just happy when the Tigers were not bumped off the air for days straight due to playoff hockey. But we're a bit spoiled now by having all 162 on one television station or another so it's harder to stomach.
FS Detroit's press release says:
The lone regular-season game without firm television plans is April 7 at Kansas City, a date on which the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons are in action at the same time. Telecast schedules set several months ago have the Red Wings game on FOX Sports Detroit and the Pistons airing on FOX Sports Detroit Plus. The network is working to determine if it can also distribute that night's Tigers game.
"It is our goal to provide coverage of all three of our teams' games on April 7 to create a great triple-header of Detroit sports. We'll know in the coming weeks if that will be possible," said Greg Hammaren, Senior Vice President/General Manager, FOX Sports Detroit.
Hopefully it can. No use in getting all worked up in early February over something that won't happen until April. If not, well, radio guys Jim Price and Dan Dickerson aren't too bad to spend a few hours with, right?
Four games will also be on Fox Saturday Baseball. It would be nice to pretend they're national games, but the Tigers seldom seem to get airtime outside the two states the teams are from and (randomly enough) North Dakota.
Anyway, back to more good news. FS Detroit will show spring training games on March 15, 18, 21 and 25.
Can't wait!
"April in the D: Tigers Premiere Week" is planned for April 1-9, including a season preview special.
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Sad news for me.
No cable means it’ll be Dan Dickerson all year for me, except for four games (I’m assuming they’ll be national broadcast on a network).
Blech.
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My goodness, what a terrible situation
You are in.
Picking up Dan and Jim on occasion is great, those
2 are entertaining, but video is much better.
Please, find another way.
by StringTheory on Feb 8, 2010 11:59 PM EST up reply actions
Probably won't be able to.
Graduate in May, keep my student job through August and then…? Income is minimal. Loans are non-existent. It was internet or cable and well… here I am!
Just don’t have much of an option. Two years ago I did dupe MLB.TV into allowing my IP address access to local Detroit games, but I don’t have the resources available to pull that scam again.
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Choosing internet over tv is an easy choice.
I would have made the same one. Maybe things like this will keep you entertained. Wink, wink.
by StringTheory on Feb 9, 2010 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
there are a couple websites that stream sports
that’s how I’ve been following the Red Wings. The quality is hit and miss, but it is free I don’t know if they stream baseball, but I might give it a try over paying 100 to mlb.tv again
by rock n rye on Feb 9, 2010 12:41 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
atdhe.net is one
I haven’t watched baseball on there (I get Extra Inn.), but they have streams of NBA and NFL games.
I figured directly linking to them here might be frowned upon. They’re not exactly legal (hence my lame attempt at subtlety). Maybe Kurt can clarify.
yes, we should avoid inviting legal trouble for SBN, thanks.
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 9, 2010 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
linking to them seems to lead to the death of the stream...
at least that seems to be the correlation at DBB.
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I used to enjoy Saturday afternoons
with George Kell’s classic introduction, “Well Thanks, Larry, and Good Afternoon, everyone. It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame”. It used to be that those Saturday afternoon games were often the only televised Tiger games we’d get in a week. Kell paired up with Larry Oosterman, then Al Kaline to bring us the action. And if you went down to the ballpark on a Saturday, it was usually “ladies and retirees day”.
Nowadays, it seems that Saturday afternoon games are the only ones I DON’T get to watch, because Fox has decided that I want to watch some game on the left coast. (I live out here in So Cal). Even MLB.com blacks out the games that run at the same time as their precious “game of the week” on Fox. There are four Tiger games on Saturday afternoons this year. Likely they’ll all be blacked out, with the possible exception of the Tiger game at Dodger Stadium in May. I’ll have to TIVO that one, cuz I’ll be THERE!
Hopefully, the Kansas City crew will be airing game two and it’ll be on the extra innings package, or at least we can pick it up on MLB.com.
I suspect you're set just fine
I worry that the extra innings package will still black out us Michiganders even if our local station doesn’t show the game, since the MLB blackout rules seldom seem sensible.
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 9, 2010 6:30 AM EST up reply actions
you'll be blacked out
FS North has a bad habit of not showing some afternoon Twins games, and even though they’re not showing them I couldn’t get them on Extra Innings either.
Saturday afternoon blackouts
I’ve noticed, anecdotally, that if you’re not getting the national game you’ll be getting the game involving whatever division the team in your home market is in—that’s probably why North Dakota gets Tigers games, because Minnesota is in the AL Central. IIRC I got stuck watching some crappy Wrong Sox game last year when the Brewers were one of the alternate games (I live in Minnesota.)
Wonder if I'll be blacked out of the spring training games
I get FSD down here, but games are always blacked out – which is expected, I just like to watch pre-game and post-game. hopefully mlb.tv won’t let me down, supposedly they are showing over 100 spring training games this year.. and if I’m lucky the Roku will let me watch everything on the actual TV.
I need to renew my MLB.tv subscription
But I keep seeing advertisements will the promise of “no blackouts.” I know in the past, if the opposing team was broadcasting the Tigers’ spring training game and FS Detroit was not, I would not get blacked out (this usually happens when the opposing team is the Astros or Mets). I’ve never tried to access MLB.tv when the game is on FS Detroit.
by SabreRoseTiger on Feb 9, 2010 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
Hopefully Extra Innings
will pick up the KC feed for April 7. It would eternally suck to have a game on April 5 and then have to wait a whole 3 days to be able to watch another one. Of course having to deal with KC’s announcing crew will be a challenge…
Hey what's so bad about North Dakota?!?!?!
I was so happy to see that FSNO is a semi-local channel here. Means I got to watch the Lions and Tigers at least a little bit. I already get Center Ice so the Wings aren’t an issue. Well..they HAVE issues…but watching them isn’t one.
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