Odd timing as my wife just asked about cancelling Netflix. We are not currently watching anything they have.
Would be pretty cool if they pick up some MLB/NHL teams whose rights may be up for grabs in the near term with Diamond sports bankruptcy!
I’m mixed on this. I really don’t want the market even more fractured with yet another streaming service in the mix for MLB games. Ten years ago, it was simple albeit flawed. Subscribe to cable TV if you live in the market, and the RSN has all the games. Today, if you want to watch all the games, you have to bounce around between the RSN, but then a dozen different streaming sites too with games on Apple TV, YouTube, MLB Network, Peacock, ESPN, potentially Netflix, etc… I just want to load up the MLB app, pay a reasonable annual fee, and stream all games without blackout restrictions, but such a service doesn’t exist (legally). Aa a result, I find myself caring about the product less and less with each passing year.
So, it’s golf. They’re planning to have a tournament featuring players from their reality golf shows (which I didn’t even know existed until this moment). I honestly don’t know if golf is easier or harder to show live than other sports.
Not sure how much I trust them to handle this well considering how poorly the live-streamed Love is Blind reunion went.
Yay. Sounds like I’ll have one or two new items to add to the already long list of reasons to cancel:
- If any of my fees will be going to pay for sporting event streaming licenses.
- If it’s not easy to block this content in the already bad browse and search views.
I don’t mind if they carry documentaries about truly notable sporting events or participants but having live sporting events on that platform is just dumb.
Is golf even a sport? Looks like exercise at best to me, and that’s only if you’re playing without a cart.
