Who determines what games are blacked out?
Major League Baseball and its member clubs make the determinations for which games will be blacked out where. DirecTV has *NOTHING* to do with blackouts, other than following the rules set forward by MLB and the member clubs. Cable and MLB.TV are held to the *EXACT SAME* blackout standards as DirecTV. MLB.TV or Cable will *NOT* get you around a blackout. There are three kinds of blackouts: 1) Territorial blackouts (to protect local Regional Sports Networks…