Getting desperate to watch some baseball on TV, but not THAT desperate because of Comcast's unfairness

Was hoping to feed my fix today by watching some spring training games somewhere on my cable TV. I was disappointed to only find the hated White Sox take on the hated L.A. Dodgers. I made it work.

Now you're probably asking why I just don't flip on the brand new MLB Network. Well, I don't have it. 

And so begins my contribution to the the nation's second-most popular pastime: complaining about Comcast cable.

Comcast in the Springfield area has a group of channels called the "Sports and Entertainment" package. It has about 15 channels devoted almost exclusively to sports. It has the other three professional sports networks -- NFL, NBA and NHL -- included in there. It's available for $4 a month.

For a reason that no one at Comcast has been able to explain to me during my handful of telephone and e-mail conversations about this issue, the MLB Network is not included in this package.

Instead, Comcast has placed it in a "Digital Classic package," which has about 50 mostly non-sports-related channels that costs $13 a month.

Now, bad economy or not, I can't justify spending $13 a month on 50 channels I'm mostly not going to watch when the channel logically belongs in a package that only costs $4.

I caught a glimpse of the MLB Network last night when I was out to eat. I'd enjoy it, for sure. But adding an extra $13 to my already high cable bill doesn't seem right, especially since I only have time to spend time with cable TV on weekends.

And yeah, I could dump Comcast and go to satellite, but I'm not going to go through that hassle and get dishes bolted to my roof for one channel.

I hope that Comcast sees the errors of their way soon and fixes this.

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