What the MOTHERFUCK Time Warner?

The BBQ Pit
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So…I’m watching the Sugar Bowl and my beloved Sooners are down 7 to LSU with a little over 2 minutes left on the clock. Following a critcal penalty* by LSU on a punt, the ref is about to make the call WHEN ABC CUTS FROM THE GAME TO SOME MORONIC BULLSHIT. I don’t even know what the fuck it is, just two guys sitting around talking about movies.

Seriously, someone has to die.

How can you just cut from a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME? This is the shit that I’m paying for??? I’ve noticed that they do this during other things, but I could usually care less. This time, it was personal. I had to “watch” the rest of the game off of Gamecast on espn.com (my Sooners lost :(). Did this happen to anyone else?

*OK, so it wasn’t so critical, but it might’ve been at the time.

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ABC is owned by Disney, pal. Sounds like it was your local affiliate deciding to preempt the game.

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You’re paying to watch a broadcast network station?

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You pay for ABC?

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Well he might be saying he’s paying for the cable.

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Well, still, I doubt it’s the cable company that decided to fuck around with a network channel.

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So, one of the six billion or so sports games out there actually got kicked off the air in favour of something vaguely interesting? I’d pay to get a channel like that …

(Yes, I know this is a minority opinion. To put it mildly.)

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Steve, I’ll join you in that minority. Nothing worse than BBC2 schedules being kicked because a darts match overran.

I’ll say that again: darts.

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Coming up on BBC1: darts. BBC2: snooker.

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And for those who like variety, there’s sport.

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I’m a HUGE college football fan, and it pisses me off that I wasn’t able to watch the entire game, a game I had been waiting an entire month to watch. This was a local thing because no one else had problems watching the game, so yes, I’m pitting my local provider for cutting to some other bullshit in the middle of what could’ve been a huge comeback.

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And for those of you who don’t like television, there’s David Coleman.

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How about a football game cutting short so we can watch Futurama?

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I don’t have the heart… Actually you missed a KOTH rerun at 7pm.

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How about cutting a game short so we can watch Heidi?

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Did you catch that, by any chance? I’ll bet that was fun.

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As long as it’s Heidi Klum, sure.

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damn, you beat to that one. :smack:

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And I beat you to a Heidi Klum joke.

Hmm…beat + Heidi Klum…