Baseball Fans Revolt After MLB.TV Crashes on Opening Day: ‘I’m Going To Go Berserk’
Major League Baseball fans revolted online Thursday during Opening Day after MLB.TV crashed and left them hanging in the dark.
Fans who had hoped to catch out-of-market games on the premium service, which costs $149.99 annually, were disappointed to discover error messages instead of home runs and strikeouts throughout the day.
The Awful Announcing X account posted one image of a frozen stream with a message that read, “Network Error…Please check your network connection and try again.”
The post went viral and became a haven for indignant baseball fans to unload on the service:
Some of the raging at MLB.TV was organic but equally as passionate:
The MLB.TV X account, which had not been active since last September, did not immediately address the outage. Early on Thursday, the service did preview the season’s first game with Oakland visiting Seattle.
The post became a sort of feedback forum:
MLB.TV’s Thursday crash comes just months after thousands of Netflix subscribers raged at the service when they experienced widespread outages during the fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last November.
Both streaming services had months to prepare for a surge in viewers but were apparently unprepared. Some users were reporting their service was up just before 5 p.m. ET, but outages were still widespread.
The official MLB X account spent the day posting highlights from games across the league that seemed to placate some fans who found themselves in the dark to begin the season.
