Live Post - Red Sox and why TBS Sucks!

As we move into the fifth inning of game 6 of the MLB playoffs TBS focuses for about 30 seconds on a patch of grass, which is a LOT of time in tv time sense. It was not even a lush, soft looking patch of grass. And it wasn't really a patch either. It was a strip of grass that was thin and patchy.

Thanks TBS, thanks a lot.

Live Post - RED SOX and why TBS SUCKS!

Not only has the station shown itself incompetent in transmitting this crucial series game, but their commentators have also shown themselves to be in competent.

For the past 5 games we have had to sit and listen to dear old Caray and Orsillo go on and on, very subtlely I'll give them that, but never the less they go on and on about the Sox injuries and how the Sox are having a hard time doing this or that and just seem to be all and all downers on the Sox.

Not only that, we've had to listen to them misname the players, say Youkillis is on first when he was on third and other such nonsense.

Really, could New England baseball fans expect anything BETTER from an outside station that does not know our guys the way WE know our guys? From a station that only comes into the Sox family in the last 7 games of their career and have not gripped their fists in anxiety, sat on the edge of their seats, or jumped up and down for joy in the stands of Fenway as this team has won their way into the playoffs once again?

Sigh.

Gawd I despise the...apathy and acceptance the American people have acrewed to get us to this place, this place where when I am angry or a whole REGION OF THE COUNTRY is upset they have no options to do ANYTHING?@?! Or maybe they don't even feel like they CAN or CARE!$#@?@# They just sit in front of the television, watching a stupid sitcom, hoping and praying that the game they are ANXIOUSLY awaiting will eventually come on...

Live Post - RED SOX and Why TBS SUCKS!

Jason and I rushed home to see the Sox game from a day out in the sun and chill of a beautiful fall day on the Charles. And what did we find? Did we find the brightly lit garish white canopy of the Tampa Bay indoor field?

NO!

No, we did not. We came home, turned on the television and found a sitcom on with a message streaming on the bottom saying oops, sorry, technical problem. No sox for you.

People. This was the most ridiculous thing for anyone to have to encounter in such a situation. This is MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!! This is GAME SIX of the PLAYOFFS!! And who did the stupid MLB network choose to host this most precious cornerstone of New England fall season family fun life? A local network? A trusted station we know that always works?

NO!

No, they did not. They chose TBS which is a mutually exclusive deal so NO OTHER STATION gets to play the game. Not that I want death, destruction or chaos, but I hope that for the first half hour that the game was not showing on TBS that people all over New England were RIOTING! to show their displeasure at this station.

Because really, in this case, the case of Jason and I sitting at home trying to watch a baseball game we've been waiting to see, what other way can we choose to express our anger and frustration that would have any kind of effect on the nation? on TBS? Nothing.

All I could think of and Jason supported was to blog about it. But how much can this do? And will this stop the MLB network from choosing an elitest network next year?

Probably not.