# Anyone have the Yes App? (Yankees & Nets) It looks like they have a deal to get the games for only $20/month this year
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** baseball-mlb
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980 "2023-04-01T13:52:30Z")
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/1 "2023-04-01T13:52:30Z")
The Web Site doesn’t make it easy, so I’m doing some research first. But I think I can download the App onto my Firesticks, Phone or computers and watch the YesNetwork including the games. The offer I saw was normally $25 per month but only $19.99 is I sign up by April 30.
Anyone use the Yes App at all and on what devices? Does it work well?
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> **[YES Network Introducing Direct-To-Consumer Subscription Product Today](https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/yes-network-introducing-direct-to-consumer-subscription-product-today)**
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> YES Network Introducing Direct-To-Consumer Subscription Product Today
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/2 "2023-04-01T16:19:41Z")
That seems exorbitantly expensive. More expensive than any streaming service I can think of.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/3 "2023-04-01T16:34:18Z")
Yep, but cheap compared to picking up cable again. The cheapest solution was Directv Stream for about $85 per month.
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### Author:  [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/4 "2023-04-01T21:25:10Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> That seems exorbitantly expensive. More expensive than any streaming service I can think of.
70 cents a game doesn’t seem like a bad deal. That’s about what I’m paying for MLB TV.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/5 "2023-04-01T23:02:56Z")
For comparison, google is telling me NFL+ is $4 a month, or $40 for the entire season. From what I gather that’s only to watch live games, but it’s all of them.
If you want to be able to watch all games at any time, plus the 30-minute condensed versions, and the all-22 coach’s cam version, you need NFL+ Premium, which costs $10 a month or $80 for the whole season. With 272 games in a season that comes out to just under 30 cents per game.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/6 "2023-04-02T19:13:48Z")
Thus far I’m pretty unhappy.
There was billing BS where they signed me up for annual instead of monthly, so I have to straightened this out tomorrow.
I’m watching todays game and it is having major streaming issues despite a Gigabyte connection that handles every other streamer great.
I will probably cancel the entire mess.
Oh, one more hit. The Yes network site doesn’t appear to have a cancel option.
They clearly rolled this out half-assed.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/7 "2023-04-09T19:26:32Z")
So today everything seems to be straightened out.
Picture is crisp, no glitches, no freezing.
I got it switched from Annual to Monthly billing.
The website is still missing a cancelation option but I was told the chat tool will take care of it.
Maybe they can up their game by September when I’ll be canceling for 5 to 6 months.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/8 "2023-04-10T03:51:00Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> For comparison, google is telling me NFL+ is $4 a month, or $40 for the entire season. From what I gather that’s only to watch live games, but it’s all of them.
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> If you want to be able to watch all games at any time, plus the 30-minute condensed versions, and the all-22 coach’s cam version, you need NFL+ Premium, which costs $10 a month or $80 for the whole season. With 272 games in a season that comes out to just under 30 cents per game.
NFL+ has blackouts - you can’t use it to watch your local team, and more importantly you can only watch live games on your phone or tablet. NFL Sunday Ticket is the one you’d need to watch live out of market games on your TV, and that’s $300 a year. Now, with the NFL that’s usually not a massive issue if you get decent antenna coverage.
However, YES Network would be to watch your local teams that would normally be blacked out of a nationwide package. This is kind of the reason why these channels are blacked out, because they would make a league wide service exorbitantly expensive.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/9 "2023-04-10T12:26:40Z")
Yeah I wonder what happened to the NFL game pass, or whatever it was called. A few years ago I wanted to watch Panthers games, and at the time the NFL offered a service that was $10 a month that let you watch every single game, either live or after the game ended. I think it was called game pass, but I also think they discontinued that service.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/10 "2023-04-10T19:55:42Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Yeah I wonder what happened to the NFL game pass, or whatever it was called. A few years ago I wanted to watch Panthers games, and at the time the NFL offered a service that was $10 a month that let you watch every single game, either live or after the game ended. I think it was called game pass, but I also think they discontinued that service.
NFL Game Pass is now NFL+. You never could watch games live on it, except if you lived internationally.
This is from 2018:
> **[What Is NFL Game Pass, and Is It Worth It?](https://www.tomsguide.com/us/nfl-game-pass-faq,review-5718.html)**
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> Here's everything you need to know about NFL Game Pass, including pricing, game availability and bonus content.
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> Unlike NFL Sunday Ticket, which gives you easy access to any game you want, whenever you want, NFL Game Pass focuses on out-of-market games that are available to you when the games are over.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/11 "2023-04-10T20:09:35Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> NFL Game Pass is now NFL+. You never could watch games live on it, except if you lived internationally.
You could in October of 2021, because I did:
> [@NFL 2021: Week Five Easy Pieces](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-five-easy-pieces/952078/74):
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> And here I sit watching the Panthers game, potentially for free if I just cancel before the free 7-day trial ends. It was super confusing to set up. I signed up on the computer, where I apparently already had an account. I guess it’s just a regular [nfl.com](http://nfl.com) account? Then I added the NFL channel to Roku, which asked me to enter an activation code on [nfl.com](http://nfl.com). so I went to the computer and did the code, and then when I came back to the television the Panthers game was actually playing on the televi…
The timestamp on the post shows 1:15 pm.
EDIT: An actual, honest to god “My post is my cite.”
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/12 "2023-04-10T20:17:12Z")
Perhaps it was something pandemic related or your account thought it was somewhere else, but how do you think they would sell an out of market NFL package for $10 a month when they are charging NFL Sunday Ticket for $300 a year?
From the NFL:
[https://support.nfl.com/hc/en-us/articles/5400967575964-What-is-the-difference-between-NFL-Game-Pass-and-NFL-Does-NFL-Game-Pass-still-exist-](https://support.nfl.com/hc/en-us/articles/5400967575964-What-is-the-difference-between-NFL-Game-Pass-and-NFL-Does-NFL-Game-Pass-still-exist-)
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> NFL+ Premium gives you access to all the features of NFL Game Pass and more, including full and condensed game replays, Coaches’ Film, live out-of-market preseason games, live game audio, and live local and primetime Regular Season and Postseason games on your phone or tablet.
So I am going for some software glitch or something, but you are going to have pay a lot more than $10 a month for out of network NFL games on your TV nowadays.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/13 "2023-04-10T20:21:57Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> how do you think they would sell
Like hotcakes!
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/14 "2023-04-10T20:24:05Z")
Also of note, in a previous post in that linked thread I wrote that it was $100 for the season, or $75 during a sale. But I remembered $10 a month. Here’s a post I made a few weeks later:
> [@NFL 2021: Week Eight in the Box](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-eight-in-the-box/953409/58):
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> Bengals @ Jets was actually a good game worth watching. On another note, it looks like the NFL heard my pleas through the ether and granted my wish. Just saw a commercial that says now you can get Game Pass for $9.99 a month instead of $100 for the whole season.
Also, it wasn’t a matter of the streaming service thinking I was in a different country. It was, however, pandemic times, albeit late in the pandemic. (All the willing/sane people had been vaccinated by the end of 2021.)
My guess is that joking aside, it did sell like hotcakes, to the point that people canceled the DirecTV package, so they ended that streaming service deal. Another hypothesis is that they wait until the season is half over before they offer such deals.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/15 "2023-04-10T22:30:34Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> My guess is that joking aside, it did sell like hotcakes, to the point that people canceled the DirecTV package, so they ended that streaming service deal. Another hypothesis is that they wait until the season is half over before they offer such deals.
I mean I don’t think they’d radically change the service from 2018 to revert back to what it was 5 years ago. And everything I’ve seen online seems to confirm that NFL Gamepass was the same as NFL+ is now.
For instance:
> **[NFL+ replaces NFL Game Pass, still isn't the new Sunday Ticket | Digital Trends](https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/nfl-plus-streaming-service/)**
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> NFL+ takes features that used to be free in NFL Game Pass and lets you pay for them while awaiting a new Sunday Ticket option.
Maybe you just got lucky? Unless, in spite of your profile picture you actually live in Panthers territory?
Because if that was the case, a $10 a month service which is cheaper than less popular sports like baseball and basketball streaming (which both had blackouts) people wouldn’t be scrambling all over each other to get Sunday Ticket.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/16 "2023-04-10T22:39:44Z")
And to continue, here is a reddit thread from 2021 (on /r/fantasyfootball ) where they discuss NFL Gamepass doesn’t get every game live:
> **[r/fantasyfootball - Has anyone used NFL Game Pass, and if so, do you like it?](https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/pqy9wm/has_anyone_used_nfl_game_pass_and_if_so_do_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)**
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> 34 votes and 105 comments so far on Reddit
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/17 "2023-04-10T23:01:49Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> everything I’ve seen online seems to confirm that NFL Gamepass was the same as NFL+ is now.
Well, no, not _everything_ you’ve seen online. You have a first-hand account from a person who watched an out of market live game with NFL game pass and posted about it in real time right here in front of you.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/18 "2023-04-10T23:32:07Z")
When I google “NFL Game Pass” (no quotes) here’s what comes up:
> **[NFL-Game-Pass hosted at ImgBB](https://ibb.co/BwBgqML)**
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> Image NFL-Game-Pass hosted in ImgBB
The first result is a link to [NFL Game Pass](https://www.nflgamepass.com/en) which is still live. The description text for that link, as seen in the screenshot, says this:
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> Watch every moment of the NFL season live and on-demand with **NFL Game Pass**. Subscribe to access live streams of ALL\* 272 games on all your devices.
Huh. Every moment live from ALL 272 games. That advertising blurb must be mistaken, just like the location information on my device.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/19 "2023-04-10T23:37:50Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Huh. Every moment live from ALL 272 games. That advertising blurb must be mistaken, just like the location information on my device.
Did you manage to click on that link and then Watch Now?
And if you don’t get an international block notification (the exact language I get is “It seems you are accessing from a territory not covered by NFL Game Pass International”) then you should go tell YouTube to ask for their $2bil a year back for NFL Sunday Ticket.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-the-yes-app-yankees-nets-it-looks-like-they-have-a-deal-to-get-the-games-for-only-20-month-this-year/981980/20 "2023-04-10T23:44:04Z")
That’s because the US version was ended, now being absorbed into NFL+. Back during the 2021 season the US version worked the same as the international version.
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