mlb.com uses your ISP and/or your i.p. address for local blackout.
So, you could subscribe in New York, be blacked out for Mets here, but
get them when you travel (different i.p.).

The only solutions I have come up with, you probably have thought of.
Friends or local tavern with Cablevision-DirectTV-Dish.

--- In brooklyncyclones2@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Leddy" <rob@i...> wrote:
>
> Since it seems like we won't be seeing the Mets on Time Warner
anytime
> soon I was thinking about subscribing to MLBtv.com. Unfortunately
they
> black out the local New York Teams if you live in the tri-state
area.
>
> So I'm wondering if there's a work around to this. Anyone know of
one?
> I was thinking if a friend subscribed for me from California could he
> possibly send me a user name and password? I've never subscribed to
> mlbtv so I'm not even sure how you access it or if my scenario would
> even work?
>
> Rob