Calling All Patriots: Only YOU can help prevent streaming platforms and professional sports dictate how you watch the Philadelphia Phillies

According to reports, the Philadelphia Phillies will play the Arizona Diamondbacks in an 11:35 am game at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday, on June 23rd. How can you watch? Well unfortunately, you’ll have to figure out where you can download the Roku App.

Phillies Game Exclusively on RokuTV?!

NEWS: The Sunday June 23rd Phillies/Diamondbacks game at Citizens Bank Park has been moved from 1:40PM to 11:35AM.

It will be exclusively broadcast by a National Broadcaster that hasn’t been officially announced yet. pic.twitter.com/LCxS7B5Nfz
— Phillies Tailgate (@PhilsTailgate) May 8, 2024

Yeah, um, how about…no?

Something has got to change. We can’t have professional sports constantly selling themselves to whatever streaming service is the highest bidder.

There’s no chance that anyone outside of whoever is getting paid thinks this is a good idea, right?

I mean hell, I literally have a Sharp Roku Smart TV and I couldn’t tell you how to stream anything “Roku-Exclusive” if my life depended on it.

Blame Major League Baseball.

Peacock did a horrible job with “Sunday Morning Baseball” last year and now it appears the MLB s looking for a new partner? Why they believe that Roku will answer their streaming prayers is definitely questionable.

Honestly, if anyone should be given the broadcast rights, it’s AppleTV+. They have done a fantastic job with the broadcast of “Friday Night Baseball” and trust me, as someone who is anti-streaming for professional sports, it takes a lot for me to give credit where credit is due.

And still, AppleTV+ has issues because unless you’re at home, most bars and restaurants aren’t airing the MLB games on Friday nights which is annoying for anyone trying to enjoy a night out on the weekends.

If you are home and want to bounce around channels during commercial breaks, opening and closing apps makes it yet another unnecessary annoyance. But maybe that’s the point, right?

Anyways, nothing is ever going to change until people stop tuning into whatever game is on whatever streaming platform. If you watch, the streaming platform wins. If you don’t and actually “stand on business” then guess what?

That will influence how professional sports leagues determine where to broadcast games. It’s really an easy way to “resist” but unfortunately, fans struggle to do it.