Sling’s new Day Cross will get you 24 hours of ESPN and extra for $5

Right here’s a conundrum our family of Philadelphia Eagles followers has continuously confronted: methods to watch an Eagles matchup on ESPN’s Monday Night time Soccer with out cable or a dwell streaming TV subscription. 

Positive, you possibly can attempt to snag a seven-day free trial of 1 streaming service or one other (we blew via these already). Or perhaps MNF is on ABC that week—or not. Then there’s ESPN’s upcoming streaming service, which is able to price $40 for a month’s subscription. Or—gulp—you possibly can pay much more for a dwell streaming TV service like Hulu + Dwell TV or YouTube TV. 

Personally, I’ve all the time longed for one thing like a sport move or a day move—a reduced, short-term subscription for these instances when there’s a Monday Night time Soccer sport that we are able to’t watch every other approach.  

Nicely, Sling simply rolled out one thing alongside these traces: a Sling Day Cross that provides you the run of Sling Orange, which incorporates ESPN, ESPN2, and extra—for $5.

Alongside the Sling’s new Day Cross, there’s additionally a Weekend Cross for $9.99, good for catching a full weekend of school soccer, or $14.99 for a Week Cross. 

You too can tack on further channels above and past these provided on Sling Orange with a Sling Extras add-on, which price $1 for Day Cross customers (bringing the entire Day Cross price to $6), $2 for the Weekend Cross, or $3 for the Week Cross. 

Sling Orange (which additionally contains CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV, and about two-dozen different channels) usually prices $45.99 a month, or roughly $1.33 a day—so clearly, the $5 each day charge for a Sling Day Cross is much pricier than paying for a full month’s price of Orange. 

That mentioned, there have been loads of instances when all I needed was entry to ESPN for a single day—nicely, simply three hours, give or take—to look at a Monday Night time Soccer sport that I in any other case couldn’t stream with out coughing up far more for a month-long streaming subscription or someway snagging a free trial of one thing. 

Now, I’d love one thing related for YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket, which now not less than affords a single month choice. However even only one month of Sunday Ticket prices a whopping $85 for brand spanking new subscribers, and much more for returning members (these costs are topic to alter as YouTube rolls out frequent reductions). Why not a Sunday Ticket day move, or perhaps a single sport move? (After all, understanding the NFL, I’m certain the costs for these hypothetical choices could be nuts.) 

In any case, I’m down for the Sling Day Cross the subsequent time there’s an ESPN-only Monday Night time Soccer sport with the Eagles. (It seems to be just like the Eagles MNF video games this season will all be simulcast on ABC, however they may all the time be “flexed” right into a non-ABC Monday sport, so that you by no means know.)