CSS once again proved Saturday why it is the worst sports network of all time. I showed up at the Saucer at noon expecting to see the Tigers on TV. Instead I saw a women’s game between Jacksonville State and East Tennessee State. “How could they not know there’s a game on?” I thought. “Being a home game at the FedExForum, there had to be a lot of people in here with Tiger attire earlier.”
So I asked the manager to change the channel to CSS, and he told me it was on CSS. I turned on the Wi-Fi on my phone and looked up the game, and confirmed that CSS was the correct channel.
I then texted Mikey, who was at Calhoun’s, to see if they had the game. They didn’t either. CSS screwed up, that’s all there was to it. About 45 minutes later, after being flooded with calls, Comcast finally got their act together and got the Tiger game on with a few minutes left in the first half. I kept my Wi-Fi on and reloaded the score from ESPN Mobile every 15 seconds in the meantime.
What I would give to have Time-Warner back in Memphis as the cable provider… both my cable and Internet service were just about flawless for years when they were here. Twice this week my Comcast Internet service has gone out in the middle of online poker hands.
Anyway, rant over, and congrats to the Tigers on a perfect regular-conference season.
Full day ahead today… I’m going to do the Bloody Mary bar at Silly Goose again this week. They don’t open ’til 12, so I have an extra hour to play online poker before I head that way, a good thing because the poker rooms tend to be full of bad players on Sunday mornings. At 5 I have to be at the Saucer for my friend Matty O’s going-away party, and then the Dempseys play Huey’s at 8:30, although I may skip them or show up late if Matt’s party gets good. If I miss them it will be the first time since 2003 I’ve missed a Downtown Huey’s Dempseys show.
Time to hit Publish and go win some money… see ya later.