YES Makes My Point For Me

Paul Semendinger
Mar 28
1 min read

by Paul Semendinger

March 28, 2026

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This is a follow-up to the following article: Yankees TV Frustration.

In short, the Yankees and the YES Network are demonstrating through this new advertisement that what I wrote about the other day is 100% accurate:

Fans don't know where to find the games
If the fans can't find the games, they'll do other things instead

Now, the commercial makes it seem like all the games are on YES, so it's not accurate in that regard because, as I demonstrated, there are a ton of games that won't be on YES and will be scattered around a host of platforms, some of which fans will have to pay for if they want to watch the games.

Nonetheless, my bigger point remains, the Yankees' TV approach is terrible and it will drive fans away from the games and the team.

6 Comments

discomike144

Mar 28

Strange question but related.....I live overseas (NewZealand) & have always streamed Yankees games with purchased MLB package & for years they had one that catered to any non-North Americn market. Things have changed this year with ESPN partnership which bars MLBTV access for international customers - MLB site continually sends me to a site (Nth Amer ESPN) I'm not allowed to access. Off chance any other international Yankee TV consumers out there with similar issues & a solution?...could be a long winter here without access. An offshoot issue of the same scrambled mess MLB has created chasing every last dime out there. Their help desk can't even be bothered responding to my question. Sorry to gum up the replies with…

discomike144

Mar 28

Replying to

Online that seems to be the consensus Robert. I've never used one before so unsure how to setup but probably something I'll have to resort to. It just blows me away that they've basically forgotten their customer's needs so thoroughly & dismissively. So yeah, unless something changes I'll need a second subscription to make my first subscription work.....& we call it progress. Thanks for helping out Robert.

jjw49

Mar 28

IF Yankee fans want to know where the game is being televised... download the CBS Sports App..... and then click on Scores and you will find who is televising the Yankee game.... it's very easy to find!

fuster

Mar 28

deflection rather than attempt at denial.

it's slick

they've chosen to grab the low-hanging doubloons

and offer a falsely empathic image to those folks

who are expected to ultimately supply the coin

Robert Malchman

Mar 28

About as accurate and helpful as Larry's Super Bowl ad for crypto.

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