It would be cool to watch my out of state team but I’m not paying $400 for that privilege, not even close.

I usually watch one game a weekend, but if I wanted all of them, I would have three options. First, I could go to a sports bar. It's fun, social, and costs whatever I would spend on food and drinks. Option 2 is to give Youtube $400 a year and watch whatever games they want to show me on multiview, because I don't get to pick. Option 3 is I don't give Youtube $400 and I stream whichever games I want to watch for free.

I'm not surprised they have millions of subscribers. A lot of people don't want to go to a bar, and a lot of people don't have the patience for piracy. But the product they are putting out should be better than those options. They should offer features the make it worth $400 a year. Otherwise, they overpaid for the license.

I bought it, but for a tech company their tech is pretty shit.

On ESPN, if I want to watch 4 games, there are a couple different layout options, and I can pick and add each individual game at my discretion. With YouTubeTV, they have predefined choices of games you can watch. It's not a complete list of combinations, and you don't have layout options (ESPN gives you a one big, 3 small to one side option that's nice). I have two actual TVs where I watch games so the layouts are less of an issue, but I can't put a game on one screen then the other 4 I want to watch on a second screen as background unless I get lucky and it happens to be one of the choices they gave.

I have other financial priorities at the moment so most streaming services are a want and not a need even if I love watching sports. The price is not low enough to buy it because I enjoy it and can justify it. Maybe I'll budget for it next year.

Baseball was the same way but luckily YES network did streaming for baseball and I was able to watch the games at a price I felt was reasonable. Also I only subscribed for the season, well technically not the whole season because the Yankees were killing me. That's part of the deal only streaming 1 team. I couldn't watch any other team so why stay subbed?

This is the funniest headline I can imagine. If I didn't know better, I'd say Elon owns YouTube.

Oof! 🚉