They just hate freedom so very much.
For one, Monday Night Football is now on cable. Now, this is the second year, and most people who like watching football have ESPN, so you may claim that it's not really that big a problem. In addition, the home market cities get the Monday night games for free, thanks to ESPN's having ABC as a sister station. (Of course, it's still, on a very basic level, un-American to have MNF on cable.)
Much worse is that the National League playoffs are on TBS. This is the nation's pastime, right? Right?
And yet, if you live in Philadelphia, and you don't have TBS (for which you should probably be commended, since it means you don't want to watch six hours of sitcom re-runs a day), you can't watch the Phillies play the Rockies in their NLDS. There is no home market exception.
What are we, communists?
4 comments:
Wow, I can't believe anybody in the world doesn't have TBS. Indeed, that should somehow be commended, but it sucks for the NLDS.
It's Ted Turner's way of telling you your exclusive preference for NL-style baseball is evil and wrong... ;-)
Dave, last I checked... the ALDS is on TBS, too.
As un-American as TBS may be... I don't think its any more unreasonable to require an American to have cable in order to watch the playoffs than it is to require them to have a TV. And if we were truly communists, lets be accurate, we'd give everyone cable for free (unfortunately, it would be impossible to come by a tv).
^True. The entirety of the Division Series is played on TBS (or TNT if there's a time overlap) but the NLCS remains on TBS while the ALCS moves onto Fox, where everyone can enjoy it. Just goes to show you how pro-American the DH really is!
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