The Nats win a thriller in Arizona! Surely Comcast Sports Net would report first on such an exciting story, about a team whose season is currently going on? The short answer is no. The long answer is that Comcast sucks. I can't say that strongly enough.
Here are the stories of the Sunday night 10:00 p.m. broadcast in order:
- Tiger Woods (People care about golf? When it's not even happening here? Who are these tools?)
- Eagles vs. Ravens (that happens tomorrow)
- Redskins vs. Titans (that happened yesterday)
- Michael Vick (like that hasn't been going on for months)
*Commercial break*
- Red Sox vs. Orioles
- FINALLY, the Nationals
- UVA football (season doesn't start for a few weeks)
- I lost interest after that (All right, I lost interest after the Nats story, but was too busy typing to beg Chanuck to change the channel)
I'm not surprised that the Ravens and Redskins are up there; even though football season hasn't started yet and the preseason is a joke, I realize that this is a football town. (Technically, it IS news that the Redskins managed to win one more preseason game than last year.) Frankly, I was surprised that Tiger and Michael Vick make it on a "sports news" station ahead of the O's and Nats. I mean, Tiger's in freaking Oklahoma and who cares about Vick the dog killer? But no, it's absolutely CRITICAL that Comcast report on them ahead of guys who actually play for teams in this area. God forbid that people don't get their golf and animal abuse news at the top of the hour! What is wrong with this city? This is reason # 1,509,823 why I wouldn't choose Comcast ever again. Personally, I would rather opt for Jimmy Joe Bob Cletus' Dialup and a pair of rabbit ears over suckass "screw the home teams and your internet connection" Comcast. But that's just me.
3 comments:
Moreover, the michael Vick thing is not a "sports" story. If they wanna report on that stuff put it with the other human interest crap.
I'm not too shocked, DC is still a Redskins town, no matter how much Snyder tries to kill a franchise. Baltimore is still an O's town, and everyone seems to have a hard on for Tiger.
Vick, well the DC area loves to claim VA Tech more then UVA and Maryland since VATech does better in football, so it doesn't surprise me. Come on, televised news in the past five years has fallen so far they've reached the level of Inside Edition.
Aside from all that, the Nats are showing that there is definite hope for next year. I think they have all the offensive tools they need, all they need now is legit starting pitchers and they could be contending.
Oh man, that network has sucked since back in the '90s when it was HTS. Terrible. F.
The only justificaiton I see for the Tiger story was that this is the first year in which he wasn't consistently winning so now that he finally won a major, it's huge.
And I agree with Shane ... except for U-Md. The Post, especially sucks them off in ways you wouldn't believe and then pretty much shits on UVA (Amanda's not too happy about that).
As for your team? Well ... I'd say something snarky but it'll come back to haunt me in the form of a sweep at Shea late in the season that screws everything up for the Mets or something like that.
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