During the regular season, I have a subscription to MLB.com. It allows me to watch just about any baseball game I wish to watch.

So during the regular season when I wanted to catch the Mets, it was an easy thing to do. Not so though now that playoff games have started.

In a misguided attempt for short-term profits, MLB has sold baseball rights to dozens of different entities. So baseball playoffs are now scattered across FS1, ESPN, TBS, and a number of other “cable” channels. None of which I get because I do not have FUBO-TV or Comcast or XFinity or YouTube-TV. Nor do I want any of these “services.”

What that means is that now that playoffs have started I cannot watch the Mets-Phillies series from the comfort of my own home unless FOX chooses to broadcast it on their commercial, over-the-air channel. (FOX did broadcast Saturday’s game, but not Sunday’s and not any of the other games.)

How do you build an audience for a sport that way?

Like so much today, it is yet another indication of the short-term thinking that dominates Post-Regan America and late-stage Capitalism. Grab all the money you can as fast as you can and in any way that you can, and damn the consequences. Don’t care about the future. Don’t care about the impact. Drill, baby, drill! Vote for Fascists! Lie about tax-breaks for the wealthy!

I say tax the wealthy! No more more corporate welfare! No more for-profit medical system! Trump in jail where he belongs!

And finally… all baseball games available on free tv for all!

Who is with me?