The Yankees’ Amazon Prime debut left many fans missing the action.
The Yankees-Guardians series kickoff at the stadium on Friday night was the first of 21 scheduled Yankees games to be exclusively streamed on the service, The Post’s Andrew Marchand previously reported.
In addition to being exclusive to Prime, the broadcast is limited to the local Yankees region. The only way for out-of-market fans, including Guardians fans, to access the game is through an MLB.TV out-out-market subscription, which starts at $139.99 per year.
This left fans outside of the New York metro area unable to realistically view the game, whether or not they subscribed to Amazon Prime.
Instead, they had to complain.
Warning: explicit language
So let me see if I got that right?
That #Yankees Got rid of PIX 11 games that were essentially free with an antenna. And put those PIX 11 games on Amazon Prime, where you’ll have to pay around $13 a month. In addition to nearly $200 on cable TV to watch on YES.
Just why?
— Delia Enriquez (@dfiregirl4) April 22, 2022
The Yankee game will be televised on Amazon Prime tonight? Bad enough I’m paying close to $200 a month for my Spectrum Cable subscription, now a little #MLB Games are televised on Amazon Prime & Apple TV+. I don’t pay a cent extra. #Yankees #AmazonPrime #AppleTV+ Fuck it!
— Enrique Marin (@emarin671) April 22, 2022
Let me get this straight @Yankees @MLB , I don’t have Amazon Prime. I live in NYC. And I can’t see the Yankee game tonight? How the hell does that make sense?
— Vince Luberto (@ViNDiNi) April 22, 2022
The Yankees had to tweet and tell fans how to watch their game tonight.
On the market? Amazon Prime
Outside the market? MLB.tvAnd yet @MLB still wondering how we make the game grow?
Clearly, the answer is to shorten the games and make games not easily accessible to humans.
— Tim (@ItsReallyTimmyB) April 22, 2022
As a reminder of how stupid MLB blackout restrictions are, the Guardians-Yankees game is only available to watch on Amazon Prime NY Yankee fans, and yet they’re barred from watching it in their home market. #For the country
— Timothy Parry (@theclassictim) April 22, 2022
I have Amazon Prime and I can’t see them because I no longer have a market! I pay Direct TV a ridiculous amount of money for the baseball package and I have to watch the Cleveland show. yeah no
— The Cookie (@NYBobo) April 23, 2022
Oh I know how it works. But you must be subscribed, and that’s the point I’m trying to make. Not everyone has extra money to pay for a prime 🖕
— Sammi Frey (@samsterr_) April 23, 2022
Does anyone in the NY/NJ area know what channel this is #Yankees are up? I only see Amazon Prime and #MLB Network. What a joke. Can’t even see local market games.
— Frank (@FFata12) April 23, 2022
I love that I can’t watch the Yankees on Prime even though I have Prime because I’m not in the market. 😎😎Great way to grow your MLB audience!
—Andrew Posner (@andrew_posner) April 23, 2022
.. money money money follow the money $$$ yeah pure greed through #mlb #Yankees and other sports leagues, forcing “we the fans” to pay extra money if we want to watch those games that were free on WPIX-11 (actually about 21 games on Amazon; and other games on Apple+ and Peacock)!
— Jimmy from the Bronx (@Jimmy27BronxNY) April 23, 2022
@Amazon @PrimeVideo pretty embarrassing that you can’t use an Amazon Prime subscription to watch the Yankees game outside of New York. A joke, honestly.
— Ben Dickson (@bendickson__) April 23, 2022
you guys suck. Airing on Prime? What happened to YES? Opportunity to support NYC fans
— Pam (@pamdonato1001) April 23, 2022
The fact that I have to watch this Yankees game on Amazon Prime is a joke. 🖕@MLB
– Guido (@GuidoCapper) April 23, 2022
I wouldn’t mind watching the Yankees on Amazon Prime, but it keeps buffering, the audio cuts out, the picture cuts out. @PrimeVideo Make sure you can handle everyone watching something live. @MLB If you want to attract new fans, make sure the platform actually works
— Ms. Renee FG (@reneehf) April 23, 2022
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