# A lame rant about baseball and television. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 4, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428 "2003-04-04T11:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/21 "2003-04-05T01:01:00Z")
Oops. I forgot the important bit. I don’t have a high speed internet connection, and it doesn’t seem likely that I’ll get one any time soon. My negotiations with my phone company concerning DSL availablity resemble 3[sup]RD[/sup] Grade playground arguements. Me: You have DSL available in my neighborhood. Them: No, we don’t. Me: Sure you do. There’s a RDT vault just down the street. Them: No there isn’t. Me: Yes, there is. Do you want me to take a picture of it? You have one here. Them: Do not. Me: Do to. Them: Do not. _ad nauseum_ ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/22 "2003-04-05T01:05:10Z")
Those complaints are wussy. I personally was supposed to get free tickets to today’s Rockies home opener.Good tickets too(hehe, I know a guy who knows a guy who’s in the organization). But noooo I am a dumbass and forgot to turn my cellphone ringer on so I missed his call. I also had no idea that the game was going to start at 2:00 and so it was halfway through the game when I finaly decided to call him to see what was up, so it wasn’t worth going. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/23 "2003-04-05T01:07:55Z")
It’s _always_ worth going, you idiot! It’s feaking _baseball_, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/24 "2003-04-05T01:14:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*I promise to make you suffer for this part. > > It’s been less than 90 years, for crying out loud. I can be patient. \*\* Bwahahaha. But actually you made us suffer in 96. But we got revenge this year by beating you out of the wildcard. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/25 "2003-04-05T01:45:42Z")
\ You’re going to shoot a Mountie? They’ll hound you to the ends of the earth. \ You have been warned, **deb**. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/26 "2003-04-05T02:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*Bwahahaha. But actually you made us suffer in 96. \*\* You realize I meant the year of Dave Henderson vs. Donnie Moore. I was just trying to emulate the scarecrow. Gosh 96 was the year we did it to ourselves by not being able to win one lousy game so we had to go into a tiebreaker game w/ Seattle, which had a bad outcome. **Exgineer** just get into line behind all of those Yankee and Minnesota and Giant fans. ::deb exits thread singing “if I only had a brain”:: ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/27 "2003-04-05T04:09:46Z")
I know your pain. I am an Ottawa Senators fan who lives in Toronto. Leafsleafsleafsleafsleafsleafsleafs, 24 hours a day. **deb2world,** that tiebreaker game was in 1995. Texas won the division clean in 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/28 "2003-04-05T05:16:01Z")
**Exgineer** , although I can understand your pain, I have to sing the praises of baseball on radio. For some reason, I’ve always preferred radio to TV (of course, at the stadium is the best). And radio feeds over the internet don’t require a high speed line - I’m on a dialup, and right now as a type this I’m listening to the KFRC feed as the A’s dismantle the Angels (Hi **deb2world** ). [MLB.com](http://MLB.com) offers pretty decent deals for either all games for all teams, or for a little less money you can get all the games for one team. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/29 "2003-04-05T07:02:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NYR407 \* > \*\ ***djf750** , > Oh yeah, Kofax was a great pitcher for a span of 5 years or so. He was from NYC and I respect what he accomplished on the field. However, please do not call him the greatest of all time. His career was too short for that title. I mean he didn’t even get 200 wins. One of the greatest I may let slide but not The Greatest. > > \*\* He pitched with an arthritic elbow. Then he developed some circulatory problem and had to retire very young. I am looking at a picture of him hanging on my wall in front of me. He was unhittable, but unlike Nolan Ryan who would walk 10 hitters and throw a no hitter , Koufax had pinpoint control. You should be proud that he was from NYC. At his best, he WAS the best. That is what I meant. And he pitched complete games when they had 4 starters, not 5. THE GREATEST. Tell me who is (was) better if you don’t agree. ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428/30 "2003-04-05T09:20:46Z")
As a Sox fan (who’s just a student living at school) living in Troy, I’ve gotta say, it does suck. But, I make do with the internet radio (what the hell station are you getting Sox games off the air from? It’s not on MY radio, that’s for damned sure) broadcasts. It’s not the same, I know, and I would KILL for NESN. I must admit, however, that I’m VERY tempted to pay for the internet tv broadcast. Are you SURE you can’t get a cable modem in Albany? I’m pretty sure that there’s no place in Troy that doesn’t have it…I’d be surprised if Albany wasn’t the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lame-rant-about-baseball-and-television/166428.md?page=1)