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"...All of the major sports offer streaming of pretty much every game a fan of a specific sport could want..."

Only they don't. If you think about it...

whenever you want to stream from the web... you generally have to enter your TV provider credentials. So if you don't have cable, you can't stream a lot of those games.

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I have cable and subscribe to MLB.tv and they still blackout games because (I think) some local station bought exclusive broadcast rights.

MLB.tv is interesting because they generally don't have commercials. Oddly, I wish they did. When the broadcast pauses for commercials, my screen basically goes blank and the TV gets silent. I wish they would just switch to a whole stadium camera with crowd noise.

You can get around the blackouts usually by using a VPN service (like Private Internet Access) when you originally load up the stream.

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