When I grew up, watching MLB on television was free of charge. It was aired on local broadcast stations.
During more recent years, it became necessary to have cable TV. For instance, the Atlanta Braves have sequentially been on TBS, Fox Sports South/ Southeast, Bally and FanDuel. This provided the MLB and its teams huge amounts of revenues.
Now, streaming has broken up that business model according to Yahoo Sports.
How do you watch baseball? There still might be a regional sports network on cable.
But games are also being distributed (in bits and pieces) among Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, MLB.TV, ESPN, NBC/ Peacock,, TBS, HBO Max and Fox/ FS1.
The Atlanta Braves now has its own streaming service– Braves.TV— that allows viewers in this area to see most of its games.
The Braves also allow some of its games to be broadcast over the air on local TV stations through an outfit called Gray Media. WBTV in Charlotte broadcasts these games. None of the TV stations in the Piedmont Triad participate in this program; but one of them ought to do so. It seems this would be a ripe opportunity for one of them.
But otherwise baseball fans are left with a confusing array of places they may need to go to see the games they want to watch. It is a long list.
There is nothing any better than actually being in the bleachers.
As a high school student I was a big Atlanta Crackers fan whose stadium was on Ponce de Leon .
I wriggled a job as batboy for Crackers home games. ( 1951-1952 ) That for me is an experience I will never forget.
Of course attending a live game is out off reach for me, these days. Those were wonderful times.
I really enjoy baseball also, Fred. There at least a couple of things that concern me about MLB; but I still enjoy watching games at home on TV, and occasionally going to see a live game.