The standoff between Dish Network and Fox Sports has entered its second week.

For Indians fans who are subscribers to Dish or Sling, the streaming service it owns, that's likely already a week too long.

Well, if you believe Charlie Ergen, Dish's tough-talking co-founder and former CEO, you might want to make other plans to watch the last couple months of the Tribe's season.

In a second-quarter earnings call, Ergen said, "It doesn't look good that the regional sports will ever be on Dish again." The reason, according to the Dish chairman: The carriage fees for carrying the 21 Fox Sports-operated regional sports networks, plus the YES Network, don't justify the return.

In his recap of Ergen's comments, Advertising Age reporter Anthony Crupi notes that SNL Kagan estimates that the ESPN family of networks charges operators $9.06 per month for each subscription. YES Network is the most expensive of the 22 RSNs that, for now, are under the Fox Sports umbrella, at an average of $6.74 per month. (We subscribe to DirecTV, which charges its customers a regional sports fee of more than $7 per month.)

Sling TV group president Warren Schlichting told investors he's recommended that Dish drop the RSNs for good.

"The model is broken," Schlichting said. "The RSNs are just not a good deal. So, the recommendation is actually to leave those RSNs off the service long-term."

That stance, Ergen admitted, will mean that Dish and Sling will lose subscribers. Its second-quarter standoff against HBO played a part in Dish shedding 79,000 subscribers, though Crupi reported that Sling gained 48,000 subs in that period. The net loss of 31,000 subs was much better than the second quarter of 2018, when Dish and Sling lost a combined 151,000 subscribers.

Fox Sports, meanwhile, is countering, as operators always do in carriage standoffs, by recommending that sports fans find another video or streaming service. It's "keep my home teams" webpage gives visitors the option of entering their ZIP code to find another provider that airs the regional sports networks in their area. It also has a schedule that lists the games Northeast Ohio sports fans are missing on Fox Sports Ohio and SportsTime Ohio.

We reached out to FSO and STO about the dispute and were referred to the Fox Sports webpage, which says Dish and Sling "refused to engage in any substantive discussions to reach a new agreement."

All of this is complicated by Sinclair's $10.6 billion acquisition of 21 Fox Sports RSNs (all but the YES Network). That deal is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.

Soon, FSO and STO will be under the Sinclair Broadcast Group umbrella. And the Maryland-based conglomerate is someone with whom Ergen wants to work.

"Sinclair, we think, is a company we want to do business with," the Dish chairman told investors. "Culturally, I think we're pretty well aligned with them. We hate to be in a position to not be able to carry a product that they are investing a large sum of money in."

All of which just adds to our belief that, despite Ergen's stance, this dispute will be resolved.

Yes, the RSNs are too expensive. The same goes for ESPN.

But Disney and Fox Sports could counter by saying that there are thousands of fans in each region who base their video and streaming subscriptions in part on which carry the RSNs that air their favorite teams. And they're not wrong.

Dish and Sling, with a combined 12 million subscribers, are important to Fox Sports, which makes them important to Sinclair. And the RSNs, even with a sales price that was about 50% below estimates, are important to video and streaming services — especially in sports-mad regions such as Northeast Ohio.

Our not-so-bold prediction: This will get resolved relatively soon, but those of you with Dish or Sling subscriptions might have an anxious August that has nothing to do with the Tribe's difficult schedule the next 17 days.