The New York Yankees played their select game on Apple TV+ last week, and some fans were frustrated with another streaming-only contest.
On The Michael Kay Show on ESPN 98.7 FM in New York on Tuesday, co-host Don La Greca echoed a caller's sentiments that it's absurd to have to demand fans add on streaming services in order to see the games.
"I get the Prime thing, and if you're a Yankee fan you get Prime, and you're gonna get 30-40 games a year," La Greca said. "But for the Peacock, which is once in a blue moon, and the Apple TV which is once or twice a year, no it's ridiculous."
Kay, the voice of the Yankees on YES Network, made it clear that games being exclusive to a streaming platform beyond the ones on Amazon Prime Video is out of the organization's hands.
"The Yankees had nothing to do with games on Apple and Peacock," Kay said. "That's the greed of Major League Baseball just like the greed of the NFL putting that playoff game on Peacock. That's the league."
Kay broke it down further, explaining that 85 percent of Yankees games are either on YES or Prime. The remaining 17 games get divvied up between networks like ESPN and FOX and then the streaming platforms. He said people need to take their complaints to the league office and not the Yankees.
"So people's anger at the Yankees is misplaced," Kay said.
"All the games were free at one point until 24 years ago, MSG got the games and people's heads exploded because most of the games were on MSG," he added. "Things do evolve, sometimes not to your liking. And if you're an older family in Albany, and you're getting your games with the rabbit ears and stuff like that, my heart goes out to you. But this is the way sports are going. It's not just baseball."
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