CHICAGO–Baseball is back at Wrigley Field, and with it comes 1:20 p.m. first pitches. With that, comes the Chicago masses sitting at “work” watching live, pitch-by-pitch updates of the game over the internet.
For many Cubs fans, though, Opening Day was ruined by MLB.com’s “GameDay” feature, which allows visitors to track in real time the events of the game.
“GameDay totally sucked [gonads] yesterday,” longtime Cubs fan Marty Turik said. “The guy a couple cubes away from me was listening to the game on the radio, so I could hear him groaning or cheering, like, 5 minutes before something actually happened,” the exasperated Turik explained. “It totally bit.”
Turik’s co-worker, Amy Rastov, had a similar experience. “I was trying to time my lunch so that I’d get to see some of the middle of the game,” Rastov said. “I had been watching the game on GameDay, so I thought I left my cube in the middle of the second inning. By the time I got to the bar downstairs and ordered a drink, it was, like, the bottom of the 6th!” Rastov complained.
“Dude, I don’t even know what happened to the Cubs yesterday,” annoyed Cubs fan Willie Barton said. “I had to shut that [expletive] down because I couldn’t take it anymore. I didn’t know what the situation was, who was up, nothing. At one point, GameDay said Lilly was pitching to Soriano. I don’t watch a whole lot of baseball, but isn’t that impossible?”
“I had the game recorded on my TiVo, so I was all set to watch it when I got home from work,” Barton continued. “I avoided the internet on my computer once I stopped watching GameDay so I wouldn’t hear the score, and I almost made it out of the building before some [expletive] from accounting says to me, ‘Too bad about those Cubs, huh Willie?’ After she ruined it, I just went home and deleted it. [expletive][expletive].”
The Cubs lost the home opener to the Astros 5-3. Barton filled the space he cleared on his TiVo by deleting the game with two old episodes of King of Queens and the film Another 9 1/2 Weeks.
WGN and Comcast Sportsnet have been sucking too… who’s in charge of posting the info for the whole TV world to see? One would think it would be someone competent. When the Cubs tied the game, it said 3-2 for like 10 minutes, and then said 3-3…. then after the commercial break it said 3-2 again. They also never have the balls and strikes and base runners accurate either. Hey, WGN and Comcast Sportsnet?! I could do better, and I would much rather watch Cubs games as a job than what I’m doing now…. =(
Why are most of the employees at this office Russian?
Racist.
and black.
Wouldn’t that be an ethnicist?
Is that a word?
I’m going to shut up now…
[thinking to himself] What a moran! [/thinking to himself]
CHUT UUUP
Piss and moan all you want, but any kind of help is better than what I have…try working for a super-protective security obsessed company. I can only check scores twice a day. They have a firewall implanted in my brain stem. And we don’t get WGN in Nashvegas. Cry me a river. I have to either read about the loss on ESPN, or on the desipio gamecast. Desipio takes the sting out of the loss a bit better.
I can only assume when you typed “ESPN” you meant to type “Fox Sports,” “CBS Sportsline,” or “MLB.com.”
Eeee…ess…peeee…ennnn?
Its a conspiracy -they want to annoy you with gameday to get you to buy audio, personally I think the guy doing the updates gets bored and takes an hour long pee break or something. And then a beer break, then another pee break ’cause he’s so full of beer.
I gotta get that job, Liz.