A lame rant about baseball and television.

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

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.

It’s always worth going, you idiot!

It’s feaking baseball, dammit!

Bwahahaha. But actually you made us suffer in 96. But we got revenge this year by beating you out of the wildcard.

<Due South>

You’re going to shoot a Mountie?

They’ll hound you to the ends of the earth.

</Due South>

You have been warned, deb.

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”::

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.

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 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.

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.

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.