Yankees pitcher sounds off on fans’ ‘brutal’ TV nightmare: ‘sounds terrible’
On the same day the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants kicked off the 2026 MLB regular season with an “Opening Night” game on Netflix, the joy of a new season was muted by an uncomfortable reality for fans of the Bronx Bombers. MORE: Yankees send former Rookie of the Year to Triple-A immediately before Opening Day Anyone who did not already subscribe to Netflix had to purchase a subscription to the streaming service just to watch their favorite team play one game. And this wasn’t just a one-off hardship.
According to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand , Yankees fans might need access to 10 networks and five or more subscriptions to see them play deep into October (if their season lasts that long). To watch all of those games legally, it could cost nearly $1,000. Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News ran those numbers by a few Yankee players ahead of Opening Day.
“That’s brutal,” Yankees reliever Tim Hill said . “I can empathize with them. That sounds terrible.
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