2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[oblong]

I’m having Craigslist impact to the newspaper industry vibes.  Non sports fans were helping to pay for our sports coverage because they “needed”cable.  Now they don’t need cable.  Peoole advertising for cars or jobs were paying for investigative journalism. Once you ask people if they explicitly want to pay for something many say no.  So those making the money see an easy cash stream dry up and those who want it end up paying more. 

[Sports_Freak]

51 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Looking around, and this may not be complete, here's how other teams have handled this since they got taken over by MLB.

Across MLB, it looks pretty universal. Each Team has its own app, somebody in market can pay $19.99 to watch the games in a year. A portion of the games are simulcast on local TV. Don't forget some teams lost their RSN in 2023, several more last year. The only thing groud-breaking about this is MLB is subsidizing the Red Wings too.

I don't see how this helps the Tigers' bottom line relative to their past FSD deal.

Is that $19.99 per month?

[IdahoBert]

I just wish the Tigers would release the radio and TV schedules for the year. So far only the Orioles and the Yankees have released broadcast schedules. Oh yeah, and the Twins, but they are always only playing somebody called the Golden Gophers.

[Edman85]

11 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Is that $19.99 per month?

Season, I believe.

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Season, I believe.

it's currently $72/yr to get Fanduel added to DirectTV. ($6/mo)

[Sports_Freak]

15 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Season, I believe.

 I hope thats how they go. That would be very affordable. And I agree with you questioning how that could possibly be better for the team over a FanDuel deal.

[Sports_Freak]

13 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it's currently $72/yr to get Fanduel added to DirectTV. ($6/mo)

$240 for the standalone FDS app 

[Tiger337]

5 hours ago, Edman85 said:

The only thing I hate more than the "Give 100% of the credit for player's success to the person in charge of baseball ops at the time" take is arguing the same thing over and over again.

 

Actually I hate several things more than both: seafood for one.

Seafood is the worst.  I'm a picky eater and there are a lot of things I don't eat, but most of them are either not healthy or they can be replaced by something else which is just as healthy, so it doesn't matter.  I eat reasonably healthy, but seafood is the one big healthy food group I am lacking.  I can't even stand the smell.  I know somebody is going to suggest a seafood that isn't too bad, but I still won't eat it.   

[oblong]

When Ballys or whatever had their dispute with Xfinity it was $20 a month for the access via their app.   My bill went down $10 since it wasn’t there so my real cost was $10. That lasted a few months I believe. 

[Shelton]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Is that $19.99 per month?

 

1 hour ago, Edman85 said:

Season, I believe.

It’s 20 bucks per month for the guardians.tv, and I’m sure it will be the same for the tigers. 
 

Hard to say whether it will be part of directv stream or fubo. Probably directv stream. Fubo is acting as if they are in sundown mode so I doubt they agree to carry the new feed. 
 

I do think there is a chance it becomes available on YouTube tv. But if it does it will probably have an added fee (like Fubo had its regional sports fee that they didn’t advertise but was part of the final monthly cost).

Personally, I’m happy that it will probably integrate well with mlb.tv, which I will also have, and now I won’t have to exit the app to watch the tigers. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Shelton

[Sports_Freak]

15 minutes ago, Shelton said:

 

It’s 20 bucks per month for the guardians.tv, and I’m sure it will be the same for the tigers. 
 

Hard to say whether it will be part of directv stream or fubo. Probably directv stream. Fubo is acting as if they are in sundown mode so I doubt they agree to carry the new feed. 
 

I do think there is a chance it becomes available on YouTube tv. But if it does it will probably have an added fee (like Fubo had its regional sports fee that they didn’t advertise but was part of the final monthly cost).

Personally, I’m happy that it will probably integrate well with mlb.tv, which I will also have, and now I won’t have to exit the app to watch the tigers. 

It would be good for me if it is carried on YouTube TV. The FDS app really stinks.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

$240 for the standalone FDS app 

I don't think you get in the door for less than $100/month at DirectTV, certainly not on a plan that you can add Fanduel to, so call it $106/mo minimum. The question is how much value do we get out of the rest of what is on DirectTV, and to me that answer is precious little. The SO would not be in complete agreement there however.......

Edited 52 minutes ago by gehringer_2

[Sports_Freak]

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't think you get in the door for less than $100/month at DirectTV, certainly not on a plan that you can add Fanduel to, so call it $106/mo minimum. The question is how much value do we get out of the rest of what is on DirectTV, and to me that answer is precious little. The SO would not be in complete agreement there however.......

YouTube TV is $73 per month and the FDS app is $20....but I also have Hulu, Netflix and Apple. My MLB TV subscription renews in May.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

Seafood is the worst.  I'm a picky eater and there are a lot of things I don't eat, but most of them are either not healthy or they can be replaced by something else which is just as healthy, so it doesn't matter.  I eat reasonably healthy, but seafood is the one big healthy food group I am lacking.  I can't even stand the smell.  I know somebody is going to suggest a seafood that isn't too bad, but I still won't eat it.   

I'll give people a lot leeway on seafood because it's hard to buy right and harder to cook right. You normally can't get much of anything that's edible from any chain grocer like a Kroger.

Edited 42 minutes ago by gehringer_2