Pre-match: Real Salt Lake - San Jose Earthquakes (Friday, 5/7) pregame thread

Looks like Comcast has it coming on at 10:30 tonight, on channel 720 (NBC). I signed up for ESPN+ (previously) and kept meaning to cancel (as the $5.99 charge was ongoing forever and ever, apparently) but now I see they have it on at 6:30, which is live, presumably. so, if that works out maybe I keep ESPN+. if there's a local market blackout glitch though, so long ESPN+.

 

Ok, what is considered in -market in this case?

 

The area that can get the local NBC Sports channels.

 

I really want to see the Quakes score 5 on Ochoa. So... Cade hat trick? Maybe Rios? Then a Wondo coup de grace? Then the Quakes can sign the ball before Ochoa kicks it into the stands.

 

I won't be able to watch the game live but I have ESPN Plus and live in the Bay area. I know it will be blacked out live since im in SF, but will I be able to watch it as a replay tomorrow morning?

 

I have never found an end to the ESPN+ blackout on locals, I believe it is a forever thing.

 

Yeah, the lack of search is appalling.

Hanging several goals on Ochoa while keeping a clean sheet would be awesomely tasty!!

But it’s not going to happen. We’re going to get crushed. (And haters will have plenty of negative things to say about JT).

Go Quakesfans!!

- Mark

 

NBCSports is killing me.

In the app I got into a loop on trying to sign in to youtubetv. On the website, from my MacBook I can see upcoming games but there doesn't seem to be a way to access previous games in order to do a "test". Next game is 6pm tonight, so I think that's the earliest I can do a "test" for web streaming.

It's not that it's "hard", it's that it doesn't work for me, possibly due to old iOS. Never "resolves".

 

On Comcast they're showing the game again tomorrow at 5:00pm on channel 721.

 

The fact that we have to jump through hoops to watch and support our team is ridiculous.

 

Update: I was able to test youtubetv login hand-off from nbcsports.com on my macbook (web stream) by backing out of /bayarea and clicking on an EPL game. Login hand-off seemed to work, so I think there's hope.

 

I got the tv app working and the game is now showing up under the 'upcoming' section, so I think I'm all set.

But what a PITA.

I understand having Quakes games on NBC Sports is an obvious choice but last week we missed the first few seconds of the game and this week we have to work with a terrible app or web page.

I hope going forward the tv deals can be split between cable and streaming. Let NBC show the games on cable, but partner with someone else to do the streaming.

YouTube - by far the easiest most ubiquitous streaming platform by far. Rock solid and good picture quality.

ESPN+ - already does a great job with MLS out of market

Paramount+ - has done a great job with UCL/Europa League/etc.

Amazon prime - Apparently they're taking over Thursday night football. My guess is they won't screw it up.

Peacock+ - NBC should figure out a way to merge local content to peacock as this is the streaming platform they're focused on.

I would be happy to pay for any of those services if they had 100% of the Quakes games and let me rewatch games on demand whenever I want.

 

Can Beason play on the right?

I’d like to see him start w Alanís...

 

Last time they played together last year Alanis was on the right.

 

I asked over on the RSL boards if they knew of any way to watch tonight's match and this was the reply i received :


It usually stream on the following link without a paywall...unless it is geoblocked. I've watched it out of market many times but not sure if I had to use my vpn. https://video.ksltv.com/rslonksl. ESPN+ stream should be live as well.

I'm going to give it a try because.....why not?

 

You may need to hop through a Utah area VPN as I believe KSL applies geofiltering.

 

Let’s Go!

 

That's an official stream linked from the RSL website. The only question would be if they effectively geofence it.