CrimsonTribe
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Because then you would cancel your cable TV, obviously. They know the only thing many people really want to watch on cable TV is live sports. I'm in the same situation.
I understand that's their thought process and its a business decision, but Comcast, Charter, and Cox don't do this (unfortunately, I'm not in their area). I might be able to switch to ATT DSL service in which case I'd get ESPN3 without having cable. I mean, I'm going to cut cable anyway, I just don't watch it enough. I've got my rabbit ears set up and everything. Now they might lose my internet business too because I could switch to an ISP that will provide me with that service (praying that ATT DSL is halfway decent in my area). This also applies to anyone who has Direct TV and uses Bright House or Time Warner for internet only. In that case, you're paying for ESPN and you still don't get it.
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I have Bright House cable, which sounds podunk, but is a pretty decent company. Best customer service I've ever experienced from a cable company. Unfortunately, their contracts get negotiated by Time Warner, which means we don't have the NFL Network. OK, fine, that's inconvenient, but whatever. The real kicker is that an internet only subscriber cannot access ESPN3 and WATCHESPN.COM. Virtually every other internet service provider out there that has ESPN3 does not require a cable subscription (other than Time Warner, of course). I really have no viable alternative (no Uverse or FIOS) for speedy internet so I'm stuck deciding whether to cut cable and lose ESPN3 or keep paying for something I don't use just to get ESPN3, which would become redundant because I would then have cable. Why can't they just charge me $5 for access to ESPN3 with my internet subscription? How stupid.
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Our local Fox affiliate is showing the Panthers/Cardinals game over the Giants/Redskins (NY and DC on 9/11 no less). Why? Because Cam Freaking Newton plays for the Panthers. That guy never ceases to ruin my day.
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At a beach house in San Diego. Things could be a lot worse.I'm going to the Caymans on Monday. Vacation rules.
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So I'm driving on a four lane highway separated by a median. I'm in the left lane and a motorcycle cop is in the right, we're about even. We come up to a red light where one car is stopped in each lane. So what does the motorcycle cop do? He goes into the right hand turn lane, around the car stopped in front of him and gets in front of him at the light. When the light turns green, he goes, switches lanes and gets in the left hand turn lane at the next light, which has a separate light for left turns. The light is red, but this does not stop the motorcycle cop from turning anyway. Never at any time did this guy have his lights on or appear to be responding to anything. He wasn't in a rush, he wasn't pulling anyone over, he was just disobeying traffic laws for the hell of it. I mean, I know you're a cop and I appreciate you doing that job, but that doesn't mean you just get to circumvent the laws that we all have to follow. Stuff like that just really irks me.
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Got my bell rung trying to break up a double play in slow pitch softball. Was down for a few minutes and when I got up a guy on the other team was wearing an O's hat. I told him that I liked it and he told me that he was Chip Bradford, brother of Chad. Nice guy, who knew he played law league softball in Birmingham?
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Also, when you jump start a Honda Civic, be prepared for the alarm to pummel your eardrums for roughly 2 minutes.
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I'm never traveling again.
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I hate it when people ask me if I want to "do dinner." I'll eat with you, but I'm not doing my food.
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So which thread wins? OldFan's encounter with Viagra or gurgi's battle with ambien and zolpidem?
This one is much less awkward and doesn't make horrible images appear in my head so I'm voting for gurgi.
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LMAO she blocked all followers who also follow the Not Jen Royle account.
Yup. I'm blocked. How thin-skinned can you be?
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The problem is that she thinks she's right and is serving people. I think we should all try to convince her she's wrong. That should be productive.
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Today is going to be surreal. I just listened to Louis CK try to get Donald Rumsfeld to admit that he's a lizard person that eats human flesh on Opie & Anthony.
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OMG this is one of the funniest threads I've read. Ok here are my 3 office bathroom personalities. I don't know the names of these guys, so I've given them names.
1. Homeless Pat Riley. He is balding and overweight but he slicks his (remaining) hair back just like Pat Riley. He always talks on his phone while he's in a stall, even while flushing. I would hang up on anyone if I heard a flush.
2. Sh*tbreak. This guy takes a crap about 50 times a day. I swear he is in there all the time for like 30 seconds each time, then he just rinses his hands for <1 second instead of washing. I feel like I need a full body condom just to walk into the bathroom.
3. Mad Mudder. This guy takes the bathroom destroyer cake. He's an old dude that does nothing but drink coffee mixed with hot chocolate all day. He absolutely wrecks the toilet. I would go home sick before using it after him. You can always tell when he's in the stall because it sounds like a knife fight; all grunts and splatters.
We used to have a guy called the Mad Shatter. One of the stalls was his and no one else dared venture in there for fear that you might find on the toilet seat. He's been gone since July and I still won't go in there.
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Excellent customer service is so rare and so delightful that it deserves an anti-rant. So: :hearts:What rare company provided this?
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Somebody gets to go to New Orleans for four nights next week on the company dime. I'll let you guess who.
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My life is a series of cosmic jokes.
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Switching cell service providers and bought the phone/plan through a good deal on Amazon. They're sending me the new Blackberry and it wasn't supposed to cut off my existing service until I activated the new service by porting the number. Well, don't know what happened, but old service is cut off and new phone won't be here until Monday at least. Looks like I'm kickin' it old school this weekend.
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Ohhh, I HATE Joe Morgan. How does he still have a job.
And BTW, Morgan, Bonds is the all time HR leader. FIRE JOE MORGAN!!!!!!
I used to get irritated by Joe Morgan, then I heard Rob Dibble.
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I have to fly to Tampa this weekend for a family thing. My flight there leaves this afternoon during the Hockey semi-final. My return flight on Sunday leaves right when the Hockey final starts. :cussing:
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Screw you Massachusetts. All I want to do is qualify a foreign LLC to do business in your state and you have to make me jump through every hoop imaginable. I could get this done in 12 minutes in Alabama for 1/5th the cost.
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I think what really pisses me off the most about this is that there are numerous other cable companies in Birmingham and yet I'm in the area of the one company that has decided to adopt this strategy.