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After Major League Baseball kicked off the season with the “MLB Tokyo Series 2025” in Japan, a two-game series between the Cubs and defending champion Dodgers, Thursday, March 27, essentially marked the true Opening Day for teams across the league and their many fans.
Unfortunately, the 2025 MLB season has not exactly gone according to plan on day one.
If watching baseball games through MLB TV—the league’s official streaming service that goes for $149.99 a season—was the plan in place to catch any of the 14 games taking place across the country, you have more than likely run into a few bumps in the viewing experience.
With an increasing amount of outages being reported throughout the afternoon, it hasn’t really gotten much better from there in terms of fan outrage over the outage, as MLB has so far made no acknowledgment of the problem since initially promoting a post from @MLBTV on Thursday morning:
Instead, MLB’s official X account has chosen to post a variety of highlights, with a sprinkling of fashionable player fits, from games taking place across the league ever since the announcement was made that Thursday night’s Mariners-A’s game would be available to stream for free on MLB TV.
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Meanwhile, the MLB TV account has remained completely silent.
The only reasoning being offered, thus far at least, is that failed attempts to access MLB TV have been met with the relatively vague, casual message of:
“We had some trouble loading the game, please try again later.”
To very little surprise, the lack of explanation has not gone unnoticed by an abundance of disgruntled baseball fans, with one user on X posting, “The fact this page [the official MLB account] hasn’t even acknowledged the outage says a lot.”
The palpable frustration regarding the app not working seems to only be getting worse with MLB’s continued lack of acknowledgement:
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“It is understandable that there are technical difficulties day one, but at least acknowledge the problem and let us know you are working to fix it,” another user noted.
With 14 games on MLB’s Opening Day schedule, some streaming bugs were likely bound to happen—especially given the majority of games on the schedule are happening at the same time—but neglecting to provide an update on the technical issues fans are facing appears to only be turning the widespread outages into a much bigger story.
