Sports on TV

i mean it just keeps getting worse.

i too am about done. sports is like 90% of the tv time i spend.

netflix will have some nfl games apparently.

amazon took mon or th? whatever it is...

i don't even pay to see my ball team, Dodgers, yes...I know! 

a lot of working class people can no longer see any home games on any local tv....

Cost of doing business in the modern world.

I don't like it either, but at least it's a choice, as opposed to the way it was when most of us were young and the Game Of The Week on Saturdays with Kurt Goudy & Joe Garagiola was the only televised baseball game (seemingly always Red Sox vs Yankees), local baseball and basketball teams were on local tv maybe 10 - 20 times a year and home football games were blacked out if they weren't sold out, which was common for many if not most football teams in the '70s & '80s.

The modern age has spoiled us. We used to get excited when a local team was on tv, now our heads explode when one game isn't.

For me as a retired old-timer not getting out like I used to, I love watching my baseball and basketball teams on tv most every day, and I enjoy having daily access to tons of other sports. I figure I'm going to spend that money on something, so it might as well be on something I enjoy.

The alternative is to become the old men of our youth who would sit in the backyard listening to games on a transistor radio, or reading the box score to find out what happened while muttering about how everything has gone to hell.

Back when America was great.

vpn and a little tech savvy goes a long way

should be able to watch all your teams

but, it takes a little effort

they don't make it easy 

I still watch every single Giants game that is not exclusively streamed(I DVR every available game). I don't follow any other sports. And I still watch a lot of TV(not steamed). I guess I'm old school?  Others probably have other labels.

> sit in the backyard listening to games on a transistor radio,<

try it, you'll like it...even if it's a cell phone and a blue tooth speaker.

pop a couple glucosamine chondroitin caps

and ride....

I mean mow the lawn

and if you are too lazy (or had too many beers) to hold the transistor radio, you can listen to the game on these bad boys:

The Olympic swim trials were a great watch. Glad NBC is covering the games. 

I love mowing 

young mr. wadd

sphere'd in

Tennis! Tennis on TV! More tennis!

Buc games on an am radio with Gene Decherhoff

Nothing better

Buc games on an am radio with Gene Decherhoff

Nothing better

I gave up watching all sports, unless I have a family member playing or participating myself. It's way to much of an investment in time and money to follow any sports anymore. Plus 95% of water cooler talk is people just repeating what they heard a commentator say or read online, very little original conversation..

I remember back when it was not fashionable to go to sporting events and the place was filled with blue collar workers. Now they have pushed those fans out, and are asking them to build them more stadiums. They can give away 300 million in a contract to one guy but cannot afford to build a place to play, and then hold cities hostage to keep their teams, Fuck Them All. 
 

aw I still watch 

On a side note, I  love the whole NIL chaos in college and how it is fucking over the NCAA because they are all greedy pigs. They are all gathering around again on how to screw over the young athletes again with salary caps, etc. They just showed you the last couple of years, how much they really can afford to pay these kids, and the length they will go to get there kid. Teams joining conferences that are across the entire country, watch the higher educated burn up all that gas for a lil cash. 

I, for one, really enjoy listening to games on the radio, and many markets still have radio broadcast of the local team(s). You have to use your imagination, but you can also be outside in the shade, or doing something else while listening. A couple of years ago we got the station that does Giants games in spanish, so I even learned how to listen to games in Spanish pretty well. Radio is a whole different sports experience, I love it.

When I was a fan, more games listened to on radio than games watched. Agreed, much better experience. My last experience as a big fan was attending Cal Ripken induction into hof. My last as a casual fan was 2009 WS...gave up football and hoops around same time, hockey a few years later. If pressed I'd watch a soccer, lacrosse, or hockey game before anything else nowadays 

Outside of my kids games and my own endeavors, Music is enough for me now.
 

But to be fair, I can't tolerate the TV on watching anything else either 

I'd rather spend my money going to an actual live game (even if it's only once a year) than sign up for another recurring payment of any type

TV is absolute garbage 

I love being able to watch a variety of sports, movies and TV series, but it does start to add up:

Youtube TV for the big 3 American sports, Olympics, etc

Peacock for Tour de France, Tour of Spain, and some Spring classics and 1 week races,

Max for Tour of Italy and assorted other Spring classics

Prime (and now Netflix) for maybe that ONE Niner game a year I HAVE to watch lol

We watch a ton of other stuff, so we would have some of these channels anyway, but I hope one day we can just pay a small fee to stream just the content we want without paying multiple providers (pipe dream, I know).

Hey Googs, how goes it?

I grew up listening to baseball on the radio. Back then I had no choice. So I appreciate being able to watch almost every Giants game on TV.  I pay for Direct TV.  I don't pay for any other services.  No streaming. I don't need it. There is plenty to dvr and watch on my own time. Fast forward through commercials. TCM(no commercials) is a great channel with old movies.  I probably watch it more than anything else.

Golf rocks. 

^ stop using all of our water.

The southwest are the water wasters. 

Watching my first Mets game at home in at least a decade (on Prime).

Up 4-0; rain delay in 5th.

Otherwise, the Super Bowl is pretty much the only sports event that gets aired here.  And that's more about the food/hang and doing bad things to good songs pre- and post-game.

Hmm.  This game may be over. Water pooling in right and left fields.

I should go take a look at the creek.