Take Me Out To The Ballgame?

The rhyme nor reason behind Major League baseball blacking out televised games of the Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs & White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers in Des Moines, Iowa escapes me.

I thought the theory behind that was to spur ticket sales locally, not punish baseball fans whose closest venue is three hours away and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I need help understanding why spring training games would be blacked out on the MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NETWORK.

The games take place in Florida and Arizona!

There's only one e-mail address under the Contact Us heading for their web-site and I e-mailed that one person, Raquel Ramos, last March to ask why and am still waiting on a reply.