All right, if you're looking to cut the cord,
save some money, and still stream live sports,
you've just gotta keep your eye on the ball,
take it one game at a time,
and you can knock it out of the park.
No, I don't like sports cliches either,
but I thought I would
take one for the team
so that this intro would be a slam dunk.
Let's step up to the plate.
Now, before we get started, I'll just remind you
we are doing a smart TV giveaway right now.
So, if you wait 'til the end,
I've got some more details waiting at the end of this video.
Now, as we get started, a few points to remember.
The numbers that I'm gonna be using,
I'm gonna be talking a lot
about pricing for streaming services,
they're from the most recent seasons, so they could change
by the time the next season rolls around.
Lastly, you can skip ahead to the sections
that are most relevant to you.
If you're just here to learn about
how to stream one particular sport,
you can go check that out.
We're gonna be covering football, baseball,
basketball, hockey, and soccer,
the top five most popular sports
in the US right now in that order.
So, if you check out the description below,
I will timestamp all of those
and you can skip ahead to what you want to see.
All right, first up is football.
This is the football we're using
to illustrate that, apparently.
Okay.
If you wanna watch football, if you wanna stream football,
NFL Sunday Ticket is your best bet.
For $293.94 a season,
you can get every out-of-market Sunday NFL game.
Other days of the week, might be outta luck on those.
NFL Sunday Ticket Max is about a hundred bucks more,
and that's going to include the Red Zone Channel,
which recaps every scoring play across the league,
and the DirecTV Fantasy Zone,
and that includes player stats, commentary, fantasy stuff.
So, if you're a fantasy player, that's gonna be awesome.
If you love college football,
here things might get a little dicier.
You can use Sling TV,
which, over the course of a six-month season,
including the playoffs, will cost you about $225.
Now, you can also, for college football,
check for your favorite conference's streaming service.
Pac-12, Big Ten, they've got streaming services.
Just be aware that those games that are on those services
are mostly gonna be less major games.
The major games are gonna be on ESPN,
ABC, FOX Sports, that sorta thing.
All right, next up is baseball,
and apparently I'm a catcher now.
I didn't make these decisions.
All right, MLB.TV is gonna be your best source
if you wanna watch baseball.
You can get a single-team package for $92.
That's a single team, all 162 games.
There are some blackouts involved, but, for the most part,
you're gonna get every single one of those.
If you wanna watch every MLB team,
that package is only $119 for the entire season.
The value per game is staggering here.
So, for MLB.TV, if you get the single-team package,
you're only paying 57 cents per game to watch that team.
If you get all teams,
then you're only paying two cents per game
to watch all of those teams.
It's amazing.
If you are a true baseball junkie
and you want to watch even minor league games,
there is something called MiLB.TV,
which you can get for about $50,
and it's gonna be a similar package,
all out-of-market games.
Now for basketball, with the oldest basketball--
Seriously, is that James Naismith's basketball?
This is amazing.
Okay, NBA League Pass is where you're gonna wanna go
if you want to stream basketball, especially the NBA.
So, for $119, you can get the one-team package.
Similar to MLB.TV, this lets you watch
all of the out-of-market games for one team.
For $199, you can get all out-of-market games
for all teams across the NBA.
And if you splurge for the $249 package,
you get all teams plus the arena stream from each game
so that when there's a commercial break,
it doesn't actually break to commercials,
you just get to watch the stream from the arena itself.
So, might be nice if you really, really hate commercials.
If you are an NCAA basketball fan, again,
similar to what I was talking about in the football section,
you can check for conference networks,
which will air some games.
Again, the marquis games will probably be on your ESPNs,
FOX Sports, ABC, that sorta thing,
but you are gonna get quite a few games
on those conference networks, which, they usually have
their streaming services available for you.
Next up is hockey; thank you.
Welcome to Canada, eh?
I loathe myself.
Okay, this is one of the simplest sections I've got.
NHL.TV is your destination for hockey content.
For a single-team package,
similar to some of the other ones we've talked about,
this is all out-of-market games for a single team,
you can get that for $110.
If you want all teams across the NHL, that's $140.
Pretty good deal.
And lastly, we have soccer.
This is a soccer ball, apparently.
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All right, now there is a ton of soccer content,
not just here in the US, obviously, but worldwide.
And so, if you are a soccer junkie,
tons of options out there.
MLS content,
very similar to the services we've talked about before,
all out-of-market MLS games
are going to be available on a streaming service.
This one is ESPN+, which you can get for only $5 a month.
It's a screaming good deal.
FuboTV is also a really popular soccer fans'
live TV streaming service.
This one is $55 a month, considerably more.
So, over a six-month span, $30 for ESPN+, $330 for FuboTV.
But you do get a ton of soccer content,
especially through their beIN networks; those are great.
Now, off the beaten path a little bit,
you can go check out Fanatiz.
This is a broadcaster
that does all the Central and South American leagues;
so, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru,
all of your Latin American leagues.
$10 a month, great deal there.
And if you like the English Premier League,
then go check out NBC Sports Gold,
which you can get for $65 a season
and watch all the Premier League you want.
Go Liverpool.
Now, if you are calculating costs for cord-cutting purposes,
don't forget to factor in your other streaming services,
things like Netflix,
which you're probably paying $13 a month for,
Hulu, $6 a month,
Disney+, which we're all soon gonna be signing up for,
that'll be $7 a month.
So, make sure you don't forget about those ones as well
as you're calculating your cost.
But the point of this whole video is this:
If live sports is the only thing
keeping you from cutting the cord
and you're not planning to sign up
for the ultra-premium version
of everything I've talked about in this video,
then you've got some good options, some really good ones.
Hey, make sure you check the date below
because if it's before July 26th, 2019,
we are giving away an Amazon Fire TV smart TV from Insignia.
It's 55 inches, it's a great TV; you wanna get in on this.
So, check the description below,
click on the link to see how you can enter,
get a bunch of entries for that.
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