Really, really annoyed....
At Fox TV, and at the Yankees and Major League Baseball for letting Fox call the shots.
Back when the tickets for this season went on sale (presale, actually -- a friend who has season tickets let me use his pin), I bought tickets for several games. One was a ticket to Saturday's game -- since we're moving, it was to be my last game at Yankee Stadium. It's Yankees/Boston, and that's always a good game. At that time, the start time was 1:05pm.
So I get a message in my mailbox about this weekend's games (pushing unsold $900 and up tickets), and when I open it, I see the start time is now 4:10. Because both teams are in a pennant race, damned Fox TV exercised its rights to take the game from YES and telecast it as the game of the week. Crap! I take public transportation and I go alone (Bobby hates going to NYC and he hates crowds and noise -- so I leave him home), so there's no way I'll ride the NYC subway/PATH/Light Rail and get home around 10pm -- or even later (Yankee/Red Sox games take a minimum of 4 hours, Fox games take longer because of the interminable commercials).
I am so ticked off. I was so looking forward to this game -- and, not to pat myself on the back too much, but I seem to bring the Yankees luck when I go to see them play the Red Sox, because in all of those games I've attended, they've never lost a single one.
I wanted to see my boys. I wanted to eat hot dogs and ice cream. I wanted to spend money in the Stadium Store. I wanted to scream my throat raw one last time. And now I can't. Damn it.
Not even making progress de-junking the basement this morning or getting new Bare Escentuals eye shadows in the mail this afternoon makes me feel any better about this.
Back when the tickets for this season went on sale (presale, actually -- a friend who has season tickets let me use his pin), I bought tickets for several games. One was a ticket to Saturday's game -- since we're moving, it was to be my last game at Yankee Stadium. It's Yankees/Boston, and that's always a good game. At that time, the start time was 1:05pm.
So I get a message in my mailbox about this weekend's games (pushing unsold $900 and up tickets), and when I open it, I see the start time is now 4:10. Because both teams are in a pennant race, damned Fox TV exercised its rights to take the game from YES and telecast it as the game of the week. Crap! I take public transportation and I go alone (Bobby hates going to NYC and he hates crowds and noise -- so I leave him home), so there's no way I'll ride the NYC subway/PATH/Light Rail and get home around 10pm -- or even later (Yankee/Red Sox games take a minimum of 4 hours, Fox games take longer because of the interminable commercials).
I am so ticked off. I was so looking forward to this game -- and, not to pat myself on the back too much, but I seem to bring the Yankees luck when I go to see them play the Red Sox, because in all of those games I've attended, they've never lost a single one.
I wanted to see my boys. I wanted to eat hot dogs and ice cream. I wanted to spend money in the Stadium Store. I wanted to scream my throat raw one last time. And now I can't. Damn it.
Not even making progress de-junking the basement this morning or getting new Bare Escentuals eye shadows in the mail this afternoon makes me feel any better about this.