Fans rip exclusive Yankees-Guardians Amazon Prime broadcast
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The Yankees’ Amazon Prime debut left many fans missing the action.
The Yankees’ 4-1 series-opening win over the Guardians on Friday night at the Stadium was the first of 21 scheduled Yankees games that will be exclusively broadcast on the streaming service, as The Post’s Andrew Marchand previously reported.
Not only is the broadcast exclusive to Prime, it’s limited to only the Yankees’ local region. The only option for out of market fans, including Guardians fans, to access the game is through an MLB.TV out-out-market subscription, which starts at $139.99 a year.
That left fans outside the New York metro area unable to realistically watch the game, regardless of whether they subscribe to Amazon Prime or not.
Instead, they were left to complain.
Warning: explicit language
So let me see if I got this right?
The #Yankees got rid of PIX 11 games, which were essentially free with an antenna. And put those PIX 11 games on Amazon Prime, where you have to pay about $13 a month. On top of almost $200 in cable to watch on YES.
Just…why?
— Delia Enriquez (@dfiregirl4) April 22, 2022The Yankee game is being televised on Amazon Prime tonight? Bad enough I pay nearly $200 a month for my Spectrum Cable subscription, now some #MLB games are being televised on Amazon Prime & Apple TV +. I’m not paying an extra red cent. #Yankees #AmazonPrime #AppleTV+ Fuck this!
— Enrique Marin (@emarin671) April 22, 2022So let me get this straight @Yankees @MLB , I don’t have Amazon Prime. I live in NYC. And I can’t watch the Yankee game tonight? How in the hell does this make sense?
— Vince Luberto (@ViNDiNi) April 22, 2022The Yankees had to tweet out telling fans how to watch their game tonight.
In-Market? Amazon Prime
Out-of-Market? MLB .tv
And yet @MLB is still wondering how do we grow the game?
Clearly the answer is to shorten the games, not making games easily accessible to people.
— Tim (@ItsReallyTimmyB) April 22, 2022A reminder to how stupid MLB blackout restrictions are, the Guardians-Yankees game is only on Amazon Prime NY Yankee fans and yet they are blacked out from watching it in their home market. #ForTheLand
— Timothy Parry (@theclassictim) April 22, 2022I have Amazon Prime and can't see them because I'm out of market! I pay Direct TV a ridic amt of money for the Baseball package, and I have to watch the Cleveland broadcast. Yeah, no.
— The Biscuit (@NYBobo) April 23, 2022Oh I know how it works. But you have to be subscribed which is the point im trying to make. Not everyone has extra money to pay for a prime 🖕
— Sammi Frey (@samsterr_) April 23, 2022Does anyone in NY/NJ area know what channel the #yankees are on? I’m only seeing Amazon prime and #MLB network. What a joke. Can’t even watch local market games.
— Frank (@FFata12) April 23, 2022Gotta love that I can’t watch the Yankees on prime even though I have prime because I’m out market. 😎😎Great way to grow your audience MLB!
— Andrew Posner (@andrew_posner) April 23, 2022.. Money, Money, Money, Follow The Money $$$ Yes, pure greed by #mlb #Yankees and other sports leagues, forcing "we the fans" to pay extra money if we want to watch these games that use to be free on WPIX-11 (actually about 21 games Amazon; and other games on Apple+ and Peacock)!
— Jimmy from the Bronx (@Jimmy27BronxNY) April 23, 2022@amazon @PrimeVideo pretty disgraceful that you can’t use an Amazon Prime subscription to watch the Yankees game outside New York. A joke, honestly.
— Ben Dickson (@bendickson__) April 23, 2022You guys suck. Airing on Prime? What happened to YES. Way to support NYC fans
— Pam (@pamdonato1001) April 23, 2022The fact that I have to watch this Yankees game on Amazon prime is a joke. 🖕@MLB
— Guido (@GuidoCapper) April 23, 2022I wouldn’t mind watching the Yankees on Amazon prime but it keeps buffering, sound drops off, pic is breaking up. @PrimeVideo make sure you can handle everyone watching something live. @MLB if you want to attract new fans, be sure the platform actually works
— Mrs Renee FG (@reneehf) April 23, 2022The broadcast featured YES network regulars, including Michael Kay, David Cone and Carlos Beltran.
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