This really starches my chonies

[Oeditpus Rex]

It's the last day of baseball's regular season, and there are still two division titles to be decided — the National League West and the American League Central.

Yet, if you want to watch a ball game, you must accede to the demands of the Evil Cable People, because there's nothing on broadcast teevee but football. Football. Football.

Oh, and the World's Longest Left Turn.

Our priorities are all fucked up. :grr:

[petronius]

1. I don't mean to sound like a dick...

but welcome to the world of the NHL fan who gets to watch the first games of a 160 game baseball season instead of the Cup playoffs...

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. On broadcast teevee?

I'd be surprised if you could find hockey on the tube at all besides on cable.

You have my empathy. :toast:




Oh... and it's 162. :P

[petronius]

3. Exactly - they schedule 1 NHL game a week for broadcast,

and around here it gets bumped for any other event whatsoever.

The rules of sports broadcast really should be very simple:

On Saturday you show college football.
On Sunday you show the NFL.
On all other days you show baseball and hockey.
If one of the good sports (baseball, football, hockey) is in or approaching playoffs, that sport takes precedence.
Car racing, bass fishing, and competitive barbecueing are distilled down to highlights and broadcast during the Man Show.
Beach volleyball is covered by internet perverts posting screen captures of nipple-slips.
All other sports are reported in the morning newspaper.

Why is that so difficult? :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I nominate you

for Vast Eternal Ruler of Teevee Sports Programming.

:patriot:

[tigereye]

5. I hate how so few baseball games are on non-cable tv - it's almost

unamerican! So I listen to it on the radio like the dinosaur that I am...

ps. We here in Pittsburgh had reason to feel a little better today since we did a little better than last year... and managed to have the NFL hitting champ, Freddie Sanchez!

[Arkham House]

6. The *NFL* hitting champ...?

cough, hack, wheeze...:eyes:

[tigereye]

7. NL

ah, there's always someone ready to jump on a mistake...god forbid.