Hope Junkie in Flight

I got home slightly too late to listen to the ballgame I was particularly interested in, though I did listen to the last two outs on the way home from the train. I haven't broken down and subscribed to either the cable Extra Innings package ($$$ but high quality) or either of the mlb.tv packages ($$ but medium to low quality with crappy support) but my brother got tagged by mlb's auto-renew on his subscription to mlb.tv from last year. (I avoided this fate only through the cunning loss of my debit card and subsequent replacement last fall. Clever of me, no? And quite foresighted as well. How did I know in October? Must be psychic!) Sadly for Thomas, he has the World's Worse Web in his apartment (or possibly a faulty network card) and isn't capable of utilizing said subscription. Besides which, with tonight's Sox game in the books, he probably wasn't watching anyhow, so I decided I was intrigued by the 13th inning Nationals/Phillies game and tried to use his log in.

There are two different levels of mlb.tv this year. The basic 400K version and a theoretically much better 700K. Thomas has the 400. So I click on the 400K link and am redirected to a page telling me that "You have reached this page because your current subscription does not authorize viewing 700K streams" and giving me only one option - pay them $30 more (presumably of my brother's money) to get the 700K. I tried it again. Logged out, tried again. Asked for a different 400K game (MIN/SEA - I really didn't care.) Same thing.

Apparently there were no 400K webstreams tonight. Screw you guys who didn't want to give big greedy MLB more money. MLB.tv is run extremely poorly, so I can't say that I'm surprised, but it sure doesn't make me want to subscribe. I think I'll be listening to my Sox play on XM, or I'll pony up the cash for cable.

Tomorrow, and this weekend, I have to work for the icky event lighting company. I hate working their gigs. They're always badly run and dull dreary work. Oh well, we need the money.

[Unknown LJ tag] and I were just plotting how to steal some of A Rod's money. It's not like he needs it all! He suggested that Jeter would be a fair second choice, but I'll let you in on a dirty secret of mine. Jeter is the only Yankee I like. And only when they aren't playing the Sox. But don't quote me on that. I'll totally deny it.

And seriously, why rob Jeter when there is such a better candidate? Fork it over, Damon!

I've been sick with this awful cough. It's just in the past day or two gotten somewhat better, but I blew it tonight.

We went to a super baseball game. Cubs at Dodgers. We were rooting for the Cubs because Jenny is from Chicago, and honestly, how can you not like the Cubbies? They won, but it was a total nailbiter! I didn't mean to scream and yell, but these things just happen... I did feel like a dope because I was wearing a Red Sox jersey and hat. To a Dodgers v Cubs game. We're not even talking the right LEAUGE here. I've grown superstitious about the damn jersey though. I wore it opening day because it's a Curt Schilling jersey and he was pitching opening day. I even thought to myself, "self, if Curt wins today, you're not allowed to become one of those irritating people with the sports superstition about an article of clohing" but did I wear it again the next time he pitched? Why yes I did. And he won again. And again. So obviously I had to wear it today...

And he is now 4 - 0. ANYHOW...

On the way out of the park I heard a guy behind me yell, "Hey Curt!" and I turned around to see another dope in fukk sox regalia. I wasn't sure if I felt better or worse, but it sure was funny.

Speaking of the sox, go ahead, ask me who has the best record in baseball at the moment. Go ahead...

I had the surreal yet delightful experience this weekend of chanting "Let's go, Red Sox" at Yankee Stadium. By the end of the game we went to see it was nearly a Fenway annex. The Yanks killed us Friday night, so I was nervous for our Saturday expedition uptown to the Stadium, but we picked the right one to go to. 9-2 Sox. Mom was apparently concerned about Thomas sporting his red sox loyalty in the Bronx, which was funny, since I'd been joking about that myself. I was just joking though! The train back in to town was overflowing with excited sox fans and sullen yanks. They got us back yesterday, by one darn run though. Anyhow, Thomas came to town, and it was good.