People who purchase sports packages provide a lot of revenue for Dish to buy sports and non-sports programming and equipment, etc. There are plenty of people who shell out hundreds of dollars a year buying the NBA LP, MLB EI, NHL CI, ESPN GP, ESPN FC, etc. There are also many who subscribe to the Multi-sports package as well. For example, I probably pay a lot more each year than all the anti-sports complainers, and there a lot more who also pay for sports. To provide us with some of our regional sports channels is only fair. I am sure Dish Network can afford regional sports channels without crying the blues every time someone asks. As for the ones who want YES or whatever, they have every right to ask for it on these forums.