Potential blackout looms over Yankees upcoming Wild Card game

[Fenway]

Of course there is still a chance the Yankees could be playing a playoff game on Monday against Boston.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/29/potential-blackout-looms-over-yankees-upcoming-wild-card-game/

The New York Yankees’ sudden-death playoff against the Minnesota Twins is in danger of being blacked out for 3.1 million metro-area households.

Disney, whose ESPN channel will broadcast the game, has granted Optimum owner Altice USA an extra day to break deadlocked negotiations over retransmission fees and sports-programming costs before it pulls programming from the cable operator.

But moving the deadline to 5 p.m. on Sunday from midnight Saturday — in deference to Yom Kippur — doesn’t guarantee that Altice subscribers will be able to watch the Yankees’ do-or-die contest next Tuesday, on Oct. 3.

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[rangerssharks414]

Yeah, I've seen ads over this over here. That would suck for Yankees fans around here. I mean, I guess you could go to a bar that has Verizon or Directv, but that is inconvenient.