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Don't subscribe to Extra Innings if you're a home town fan and think you'll get access to more games for the team in your home market. All home market games are blacked out - regardless of whether the home team or away team is broadcasting it.
If you live out of a team's market, you will get all of their games that MLB Extra Innings carries. (A Reds fan living in Oregon, for example can see probably 100 Reds games)
The bulk of Extra Innings broadcasts are picked up from Fox Sports Net but other carriers are picked up, as well. Both NESN (Red Sox) and YES (Yankees) were carried last season. You can usually get 5 or more games per evening although some will be doubled on WGN, TBS, or ESPN.
That said, I like it because I can get exposure to most of the other teams in MLB. If I know Clemons is going to pitch for the Astros that night, more than likely I can find the game on Extra Innings. Also, I like the variety of start times. Most nights there are two or three west coast games if you are up late.
It's cool, too, because you can get a taste of all the different broadcast crews and styles. A personal favorite are the Dodger games that Vin Skully does solo. I also liked Jerry Remy on the Red Sox games. The worst broadcasts had to be the Brewers games. Don Sutton's son and Bill Schroeder were painful. I would rather get Bob Uecker's lagged audio feed off the internet than listen to those two. Also any game that Josh Lewin does with his mushy S's is "unwashable".
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