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MLB.com Returns

I checked my credit card bill online today and guess what? MLB.com had refunded my money. Not only that they had done it the day after I talked with the 1-800 people.

I cancelled because I absolutely hated the sound gaps between when the announcers weren’t speaking. But it turns out, I really missed the listening to the games no matter how bad the quality or how bad the FRS lost.

2-1/2 weeks and I couldn’t take it any more, so I signed back up for Gameday Audio on MLB.com. But I came in through the backdoor and for only 66% of my original cost. To sign up for a year’s worth of baseball, any team’s game with your choice of either the home or the away radio broadcasters, is normally $14.95, but if you join the Red Sox Nation for just $9.95, they toss in Gameday Audio for free.

Wouldn’t you know it, the BoSox have the night off, so tonight I’m listening to the Marlins/Cubs game on WGN.

Started down, went up, still up.
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More MLB.com

The FRS have the night off, but I thought I might see if I had issues with any other baseball broadcasts (not that I expected to, as everyone I tried last year worked fine.) When I logged on with my email and password I was dumped to a page that said to access that content I would have to subscribe by paying $14.95.

I guess someone at MLB.com got my email requesting cancellation. They haven’t yet acknowledged it and of course, they have not yet credited my charge card.

Rocket Man

Somewhere here before, I kiddingly mentioned that I should root for the Houston Astros instead of the FRS. A search can’t locate it, so that means one of two things, it happened in 2004 and I thought it wasn’t worth saving or it happened prior to 2004 and it is still in the archives. Well starting tonight I guess I will root for them, at least for the next 4 to 7 games. Houston and the Chicago White Sox will play in the 2005 World Series and I hope my cheering for the Astros doesn’t hurt them. 🙂

I gave a couple of reasons why I should switch allegiances, one of which that the Astros current uniform is a pretty good match for the Emperor’s color, so I would be stylin’ and profilin’. The second was tonight’s Houston starting pitcher, Roger Clemens, AKA Rocket. Donna and I were lucky enough to see the young 20-something Clemens pitch the New Britain Red Sox to the Eastern League Championship in 1985. Ever since I have almost always liked the guy (there was that one stint of pitching for the Yankees.)

Go ‘Stros!

Maybe Next Year

Now that is more like the team I know. The FRS were swept out of post-season play, three games to none tonight by the Chicago White Sox. At least they didn’t lose to the Yankees.

I said way back in June that I would quit complaining about the erratic reception of WEEI on MLB.com and I kept my word, but now that the season’s over…I’ve got nothing bad to say. Sometime not too long after the All Star Game the internet broadcasts settled down, loosing all the annoying cut outs and became listenable again. I guess that means I’ll be signing up for next year broadcasts. When I’ll get treated to 162 ups and downs on the roller coaster life of a Red Sox fan.

I Hate It When I’m Right

I called it yesterday, “they will probably win by a closer score in game 2.” The White Sox did just that tonight, 5-4 over the FRS.

Now if I can only be right about the second part of the prediction, “Once the FRS are down two…sweep the final three games to advance.”

Now We Got ‘Em Right Where We Want ‘Em

The Chicago White Sox will still be reeling from their lopsided 14-2 win tomorrow, so much so that they will probably win by a closer score in game 2. Once the FRS are down two and their backs are against the wall, then they will kick it in and sweep the final three games to advance to the American League Championship Series.

Two years ago their rally cry was “Cowboy Up” and they lost to the Yankees in the ALCS. Last year it was “Why not us?” and they won it all. This year it is “Just 11 more wins.” Right now though it had better be “Not 2 more losses.”

Odds & Ends

I have decided to only restore 2005’s posts. 2002 through 2004 will languish in a file on my hard drive. Maybe when I get around to it I will go back and read through them and publish a “Greatest Posts” page. There are only 2 surviving 2004 posts and those are the Mr. Fletcher’s Ride photos and are part of a series that will finish up later this month. When that happens I’ll probably create a separate gallery for the images. Speaking of separate galleries for images, that is more than likely what will happen to the photo meme posts which weren’t restored along with the rest of this year’s posts.

The FRS won today big time over the hated Yankees and clinched the wild card playoff berth. In honor of this accomplishment I have given them their own category here on the blog. A five game series with the Chicago White Sox starts Tuesday afternoon in the Windy City. The Wild Card route is how they made it into the playoffs last year and look what happened then, they won it all. As a matter of fact the last three World Series champs have been Wild Card teams. So here we go…

We got a late start this morning, so we skipped the planed bicycle ride and decided to take a Miata drive instead. We got about a mile away from the house when we ran into a wall of light rain. Quickly turned around and found a spot to remove the boot cover. Then, still top down made another u-turn and proceeded with the drive. We managed to keep dry as we kept making direction changes to stay under the partly blue in the sky. While we took a walk around the North Augusta mile walking track the top went up as a precaution. The top made a cycle one other time while we were still moving to avoid a passing soaking rain, but after that it was a nice little drive.

Part of it was to go check out where our used-to-be-local Mazda dealer went to. There is a for sale sign in front of the old building, but it looks like they are still selling Izuzus there. The new digs are way over on the west side of Augusta and is the former Honda dealership building. There were still quite a few Hondas on the lot (I guess the new Honda store isn’t completely finished) and there were a lot of Mazdas on the other half. Only three new Miatas MX-5s were on hand and they were off in a corner. One red Grand Touring with black top and interior, one black Grand Touring with the tan/brown interior and one silver Touring. All of them with a supplemental sticker adding $599 dollars to the MSRP for premium handling, 5 year warranty and a couple of other bogus add ons…

New color scheme in honor of Halloween.

West Wing is on at 8:00 PM on Sunday nights, not 9:00 PM, so I gotta go…

Started down, went up, back down, up again, down again, still down.
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