It turns out the immortal lines "there's a sucker born every minute" and "thank you sir, may I have another?" have considerable years' worth of endurance. Both concepts apply to me and many others, who despite expanding evidence that's it's getting harder and more expensive to watch our teams play, still pathetically fork over the moolah to do so.

And so as baseball begins this week, I remain completely disgusted with myself. I'm the guy on which The System preys, knowing that I'll cave like a card table under Curt Schilling just to watch the Yankees play.

Watching the Yankees this season will require a scorecard. Translation: They could show up on any of eight different channels, in the wake of recent news that 21 games will move to Amazon Prime Video this season — the games that used to be on Channel 11.

Eight different channels. It's the Yankee Stadium of corporate gluttony: You almost have to admire it for its size.

Here is the official list of channels where the Yankees may appear: YES, Amazon Prime, Apple TV Plus, Peacock (NBC's streaming service), ESPN, Fox, FS1 and TBS. My sinister side hopes the Yankees make the playoffs and have a game shown exclusively on MLB Network, if only to make it stink more.

In case you're wondering, the Yankees will air on Amazon (which will also show all Thursday night NFL games in the fall) 22 times on Friday nights this year. They have two early-season games on the MLB-produced Apple TV Plus package, too. No word yet how many times they make Peacock, whose games don't begin until May, according to published reports.

What's required of the consumer/patsy? Either DirecTV or one of the rare cable providers with YES. Good luck getting that for under $100 a month. Then comes subscriptions to Amazon ($14.99/month), Apple ($14.95), Peacock ($4.99). Presumably, your provider is benevolent enough to offer ESPN, Fox, FS1 and TBS, without jacking up the fee to match the gross national product of Argentina.

I have a group of friends who call ourselves the "Pinstripe Brethren," about a dozen sickos who either watch or listen to every Yankee game. We email and text frequently during games, outmanage Aaron Boone and generally care way more than we should. I asked them what they think of such developments:

Joe D'Ambrosio: "It's a money grab. With cable prices going through the roof, you have to download three more apps to watch the games. And good luck going to your local watering hole and asking the bartender "so, can you get Amazon Prime on one of your TVs?'"

Chris Francis: "They've already priced a lot of us out of going to the games, now they're pricing us out of watching the games on TV. That's OK. Baseball's always been a great radio game and I'm happy to treasure however many innings I have left with John Sterling."

Lou Milardo: "Not everyone has access to Amazon, Peacock, and Apple TV. They also have no other programs connected to the Yankees."

Bob Picozzi: "For years, the Yankees have topped all MLB franchises with the most World Series titles. And then with the most TV analysts on their telecasts (Cone, O'Neill, Flaherty, Leiter, Martinez, Singleton). And now with the most TV outlets to broadcast their games (everything but the Golf Channel). But taking 21 games off basic cable and moving them to Prime might be the last straw? Shameful. Is this supposed to distract us from the realization that they have made only one World Series appearance since Saddam Hussein was captured?"

The right answer here is for all of us to pull a Peter Finch in "Network" and start yelling out the window about how we're mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. But how many of us will do that?

It's possible that decent, loyal fans will be either priced out of watching or unable to decipher all the arcane details — usernames, passwords, downloads — that come with streaming.

And to think I began watching baseball with a rooftop antenna that delivered a very snowy picture of Channel 11.

Yankee fans are easy targets, in that we are insufferable in victory, malicious in defeat. We are entitled, haughty and the definition of old money. Now you can include dupes and dopes as well (if you hadn't already). And I'm the worst offender.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro