That’s why I have YouTube tv. Not having MASN bothers me less than it should
We switched to YouTube TV in March 2020; it was mere happenstance that it coincided with all the sports leagues shutting down at the start of COVID, and the main factor for us was the amount we saved over DirecTV. The price of YouTube TV has gone up since then, but we're still paying about $70 a month less for that service than we did for DirecTV (and I assume, but do not know, that DirecTV has gone up as well). I used MLB.tv for a while, but as I've said before it became too much of a hassle and I gave up. I don't miss it all that much, but the side effect of that is that I don't really follow the Nats all that closely anymore. I think baseball is a sport you need to follow day in and day out to appreciate properly, and the fact that many of us who used to follow the Nats religiously are not watching anymore because of the TV situation—and have found that it didn't leave all that big a hole in our lives—ought to concern the franchise's management a lot more than it appears to. (Regarding not leaving all that big a hole in our lives, consider that anyone my age—I'm 50—who grew up in the DC area grew up without baseball, so it's not all that alien to us not to have a team to follow.)
