Technical Difficulties

Memo to TBS - Not Acceptable.

In case you were away, TBS did an awful job last night when their signal for Game 6 between the Rays and Red Sox cut out DURING THE PRE-GAME and did not come on until 8:28PM, well after the Rays had gone one up on a BJ Upton homer.

I'm sitting in my man-den, big screen TV tuned in, and multi-tasking on my laptop when I see Dick Clark come on at about 7:50 or so... I thought it was a bit (especially when the first teaser was of a guy wearing a Celtics jersey and the Red Sox were mentioned), until the whole opening credit sequence came on. So I figured, no problem, I'll go out, get some milk in a whole 4 minute trip and get ready for the game. So I come back, and Steve Harvey (I think it's SH, but because I have never seen the show I'm not 100% sure) comes on. And I say to myself 'who changed my channel?' And now it starts getting a little confusing because I'm pretty sure you can't have a rain delay in a domed stadium, but TBS doesn't have any info up...until about 8:12, after the first pitch, with a scroll about technical difficulties. Unbelievable. We can't get a feed from another studio, besides the one in Atlanta to make sure everyone doesn't think that there is a blackout? But then again, TBS is one of those channels that plays the exact same movie back to back on successive nights (THE NEW CLASSICS - bulls**t) because they most likely can't get anyone bright enough to work the controls on the weekend.

So in my angst, I sent TBS an e-mail - here it is:

10/18/2008 8:16 PM EDT
Details:
* TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES *

You have got to be kidding me. You've had on some cr** show or another on for the last 20 minutes and no playoffs. Unacceptable.

And here was the automated response:

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE, PLEASE DO NOT DIRECTLY REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
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Best,TBS Web Staff

I guess that crack TBS web Staff will be busy answering hate mail over the next few days.