{"id":51,"date":"2013-06-09T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2013-06-09T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T02:51:41","slug":"mls-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"MLS online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just signed up with MLS online so I could watch my local team, the Seattle Sounders, squonk Vancouver tonight.  The game is being broadcast on something called the NBC Sports Network, and I just get tv off the antenna on the roof, so I bit the bullet and plonked down money for the official online live streaming version.  Goood, I thought, they&#8217;ve got a Roku channel, so I&#8217;ll just lean back and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out this game is blacked out.  Nationally. Because NBC Sports say so.  So the MLS won&#8217;t allow me to watch my local team on their streaming service, even after I pay them.<\/p>\n<p>The customer service guy said the service was better for following out-of-area teams, so, for example, if I lived in Florida I&#8217;d be able to follow the Sounders, but its less possible if I live in the region.  To which I responded, if I lived in Florida I&#8217;d probably be following a Florida team, wouldn&#8217;t I?  Why wouldn&#8217;t I want to follow my local team?<\/p>\n<p>Fail.  Refund.  These guys are having a hell of a time figuring this newfangled Internet thing out.  I&#8217;m off to watch European Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just signed up with MLS online so I could watch my local team, the Seattle Sounders, squonk Vancouver tonight. The game is being broadcast on something called the NBC Sports Network, and I just get tv off the antenna on the roof, so I bit the bullet and plonked down money for the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}