If you call, ask for event services. When a Kings game wasn't in HD on the RSN event services looked into it and told me that it was due to DISH deciding not to pay for it. Baseball may be different, but for hockey supposedly DISH has to bid/pay for the HD games and doesn't do it for all games "as they try to keep costs down and it wouldn't be fair to their customers to subsidize a game that no one really has interest in."
That sounds like horsecrap. You are telling me they bid on a per game basis? I don't buy that one bit.