The original tweet sounded a lot more promising than it turned out to be. His use of "Been a loooooong wait for this in DC and Baltimore" made me think there was something more to it, such as maybe a system for allowing people to subscribe for a fee. I'd have been perfectly willing to do that.
It's unclear to me who owns the rights to in-market streaming. MLB used to own them, but announced they were giving them back to the teams last year. But generally RSNs don't own in-market streaming rights and would have to buy them from the teams. Who know what that means to our complicated MASN relationship. It might actually make it easier for them to offer something like that since they are owned by both teams.
MASN would risk all their carriage agreements with Cable/Sat/Dish if they stood one up though. Those contracts are worth far more than they could ever re-coup in selling MASN standalone.
How does this resolve itself? It's not just a MASN problem. Are all these RSNs forced to just ride out the dying cable model and they'll lose out on a generation of fans? Does MLB step in and tell everyone to wise up and take a short term hit for long term benefit?
