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Cable is lazy and cheap. They get incredible breaks and near monolopolies and haven't had to worry about competition for years. Blame your cable company for not making a serious effort at trying to compete with directv for NFL and MLB. Cable is making too much money off their ancillary products, like home telephone and high speed internet to give a crap about sattelite, and they still don't view it as a legitimate threat. They know they have you by the short hairs or that people think sattelite is too esoteric for most people, so they let directv get away relatively cheaply on both MLB and NFL. Cable easily could have outbid directv, but they don't need to so they didn't even try.
Eventually, cable will start to see directv as a threat, and there will be competition, and both will have to woo you with superior products and service. Right now, cable doesn't give a crap about you.
Direct TV can do a national deal with MLB and the NFL that a local cable co can't, plus if you did a cable deal with the NFL Fox CBS and NBC would scream bloody murder. Don't know if the same applies to MLB. Eventually we will pay for our teams in an a la carte system.