A few years ago I was walking around Wrigleyville on a night when the Cubs were slated to make their AppleTV debut on a Friday night. I couldn’t find the game on the screens of any local bar, not even the ones housed in the Cubs office building at the corner of Clark and Waveland. It was an early warning about the ways packaging a game or 20 here, a TV contract or two there, to different streaming services could limit the ability of fans to watch their favorite teams.

Fast forward to the 2025 playoffs. As I noted in my A Cubs Fan’s Guide to the Wild Card Series, one of the best parts of the early rounds is the sheer number of games each day:

The Wild Card round begins tomorrow, with wall-to-wall coverage of Postseason matchups. Every day there are four games is basically baseball’s versi

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