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Game on in Austin tonight??
« on: September 06, 2008, 07:30:04 pm »
Does anyone know if the game is on/what channel it's on in Austin tonight? I can't seem to locate it.

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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 07:50:58 am »
Does anyone know if the game is on/what channel it's on in Austin tonight? I can't seem to locate it.

Had the same problem in San Antonio last night.  Roy throws his 1st one hitter and I couldn't watch it because of the fucking big 12.  I hope they get rid of those insane blackout rules for next year.

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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2008, 09:40:19 am »
But that Kansas-Louisiana Tech game was much better.

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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2008, 10:53:18 am »
But that Kansas-Louisiana Tech game was much better.

Hey, La Tech beat Miss. St. in its opener.
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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2008, 07:14:23 pm »
Glad Austin gets the vaunted Madison High School versus New Braunfels High School football game instead of Astros baseball.    It's not like we're about to have a forced break from Astros baseball or anything.

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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2008, 07:19:39 pm »
Glad Austin gets the vaunted Madison High School versus New Braunfels High School football game instead of Astros baseball.    It's not like we're about to have a forced break from Astros baseball or anything.

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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2008, 07:21:42 pm »
I feel for you.  I put up with that crap all last season.  DTV has had every game this year, many/most in HD.  The reasons they suck are many, but for this they will keep my business.
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2008, 07:22:18 pm »
Glad Austin gets the vaunted Madison High School versus New Braunfels High School football game instead of Astros baseball.    It's not like we're about to have a forced break from Astros baseball or anything.


This shit is unbelievable.  HS foosball on the radio as well.

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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2008, 07:23:07 pm »
I feel for you.  I put up with that crap all last season.  DTV has had every game this year, many/most in HD.  The reasons they suck are many, but for this they will keep my business.

When I moved in to my new place, we got ATT Uverse. Haven't missed a game yet.
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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2008, 07:23:25 pm »
What the fuck! Goddamn. Goddamn. What the fuck? Shit. Fuck.
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2008, 07:34:40 pm »
When I moved in to my new place, we got ATT Uverse. Haven't missed a game yet.

They put a VRAD in my neighborhood a month ago.  Still no Uverse.  This is the first time I have seen HS football preempt the Astros. Fuck you Time Warner cable.  They probably subscribe to the ESPN notion that the Astros have no chance. Fuck. At least I can listen to it on mlb radio.  Apparently I never canceled my service.
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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2008, 07:52:37 pm »
Damn, I was just about to turn on the TV, too.

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« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2008, 09:26:41 pm »
That's ok, it probably won't be very interesting. After all, the 'Stros are just throwing one of their rag-arms out there.

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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2008, 09:45:23 am »
They put a VRAD in my neighborhood a month ago.  Still no Uverse.  This is the first time I have seen HS football preempt the Astros. Fuck you Time Warner cable.  They probably subscribe to the ESPN notion that the Astros have no chance. Fuck. At least I can listen to it on mlb radio.  Apparently I never canceled my service.

I'm with you.  I already wrote them a letter earlier this year, when they'd pre-empt the Astros with FSN stock programming, but I got no response.  It's a terrible feeling when you see "MLB Baseball" on FSNHD in the guide, and you turn it there, and it's not there.  They don't run Astros games when the Spurs are playing in San Antonio, even if the Spurs aren't on FSN.  They also don't run them against high school football, either.  Complete fucking idiocy.  Oh, and the WNBA is on their sports radio station (760 AM), but that's a little more understandable, as the NBA forces the radio stations to carry the WNBA team if they want to get the NBA broadcasts. 

All in all, Time Warner San Antonio has stupid ideas about covering the Astros.  Although I will give them credit for airing the Sunday games on channel 50.
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« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2008, 09:48:22 am »
Speaking of game in Austin, if the Astros are forced to move a 3-game series out of Houston why not move it to RR instead of Atlanta (as I saw mentioned on one site)?
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« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2008, 10:00:16 am »
Speaking of game in Austin, if the Astros are forced to move a 3-game series out of Houston why not move it to RR instead of Atlanta (as I saw mentioned on one site)?

IIRC, Major League Baseball has certain lighting standards that the Dell Diamond does not meet.

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« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2008, 10:00:38 am »
Speaking of game in Austin, if the Astros are forced to move a 3-game series out of Houston why not move it to RR instead of Atlanta (as I saw mentioned on one site)?

Austin is supposed to get hammered with rain from the Hurricane too?
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« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2008, 10:02:00 am »
IIRC, Major League Baseball has certain lighting standards that the Dell Diamond does not meet.

One simple solution to that problem: day games.  It is a weekend, and I'm sure the park would be SRO.
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« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2008, 10:02:17 am »
Oh, and the WNBA is on their sports radio station (760 AM), but that's a little more understandable, as the NBA forces the radio stations to carry the WNBA team if they want to get the NBA broadcasts. 

Just can put on finger on the NBA's obsession with women's professional basketball. Although, I'd rather be forced to watch it, than card playing.
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« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2008, 10:07:46 am »
One simple solution to that problem: day games.  It is a weekend, and I'm sure the park would be SRO.

If it's cloudy don't they have to turn the lights on?  I don't think the Dell is an option.  On another note, I heard recently that if mlb ever expands, the Ryans will push hard for a team in Austin to play at the Dell.  Which of course means the Dell Diamond would be upgraded to a major league facility.  I may have heard that from one of the talking heads on Austin sports radio so take that with a grain of salt.
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Re: Game on in Austin tonight??
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2008, 10:53:55 am »
Austin is supposed to get hammered with rain from the Hurricane too?

I bet we don't.

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« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2008, 10:59:21 am »
I bet we don't.

I bet we don't either.  Maybe a few sprinkles and maybe a little wind.
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« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2008, 11:02:57 am »
I bet we don't.

I'm not saying we will or won't here, but according to the weather maps when the games got postponed, Austin was supposed to get hammered too. So, that might be part of why?
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« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2008, 11:18:37 am »
Speaking of game in Austin, if the Astros are forced to move a 3-game series out of Houston why not move it to RR instead of Atlanta (as I saw mentioned on one site)?

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« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2008, 11:27:12 am »
I'm not saying we will or won't here, but according to the weather maps when the games got postponed, Austin was supposed to get hammered too. So, that might be part of why?

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« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2008, 11:29:17 am »
I bet we don't either.  Maybe a few sprinkles and maybe a little wind.

Current forecast still suggest 2-3 inches of rain and 30-40mph gusts in Austin

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« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2008, 11:31:04 am »
They actually showed the Astros/Pirates game prior to the Rangers game on Channel 77, but not the entire thing.  Somebody at TWC forgot to pull the switch apparently.  I caught the last inning of the game.

Thanks TWC.

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« Reply #27 on: September 12, 2008, 11:41:51 am »
I couldn't even get the game on the radio on 740... it was all hurricane coverage.

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« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2008, 11:58:18 am »
They actually showed the Astros/Pirates game prior to the Rangers game on Channel 77, but not the entire thing.  Somebody at TWC forgot to pull the switch apparently.  I caught the last inning of the game.

Thanks TWC.

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« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2008, 12:03:00 pm »
I listened to Milo last night for the first time in a long time.  During the breaks, the station I was listening to over the internet kept saying I was listening to 790 the animal.  Did they pick up the game so 740 could concentrate on hurricane coverage?
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« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2008, 12:49:00 pm »
Current forecast still suggest 2-3 inches of rain and 30-40mph gusts in Austin



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« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2008, 12:57:06 pm »
Our weather expert says 25mph winds and up to 1" of rain. Very occasionalgusts could get to 45.
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« Reply #32 on: September 12, 2008, 01:42:19 pm »
Our weather expert says 25mph winds and up to 1" of rain. Very occasionalgusts could get to 45.

What do occasionalgusts study?
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What do occasionalgusts study?

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« Reply #34 on: September 12, 2008, 02:48:51 pm »
The fucking fuckers at fucking Time Warner are just the kind of motherfucking fuckheads who walk the fuck around wearing fucking fucktard Cubs hats. 

Not just any Cubs hats ... these Cubs hats.  Posers.

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« Reply #35 on: September 12, 2008, 03:03:46 pm »
The fucking fuckers at fucking Time Warner are just the kind of motherfucking fuckheads who walk the fuck around wearing fucking fucktard Cubs hats.  Fuck the fucking fuckshit out of them all.  Fuckers.

Also, fuck the motherfucking Cubs.

The mother fuckers at mother fucking Time Warner fuck the fucking fuck out of the mother fucking Cubs then they mother fucking fuck it 'til they mother fucking puke the fuck out of the mother fucking fuck the Cubs fucked.
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« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2008, 03:20:11 pm »
The mother fuckers at mother fucking Time Warner fuck the fucking fuck out of the mother fucking Cubs then they mother fucking fuck it 'til they mother fucking puke the fuck out of the mother fucking fuck the Cubs fucked.

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« Reply #37 on: September 12, 2008, 03:40:34 pm »
Not just any Cubs hats ... these Cubs hats.  Posers.

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« Reply #38 on: September 12, 2008, 03:44:16 pm »
That looks like a woodchuck carrying a sledgehammer.

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« Reply #39 on: September 12, 2008, 05:13:32 pm »
Not just any Cubs hats ... these Cubs hats.  Posers.

I had that hat... in 9th grade. 16 years later it seems to be quite trendy. One of the guys on ShaggyBevo has made multiple posts pimping his ownership of it.

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« Reply #40 on: September 12, 2008, 05:30:48 pm »
That hat makes me feel like the Pedo Bear is coming to get me.

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« Reply #41 on: September 25, 2008, 07:11:05 pm »
More Austin TV nonsense.  Glad we get to see Plano vs. Plano East.

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« Reply #42 on: September 25, 2008, 08:36:18 pm »
And high school football on 1300 The Zone. Last night it was some MMA show instead of the Astros.

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« Reply #43 on: September 26, 2008, 10:04:45 am »
More Austin TV nonsense.  Glad we get to see Plano vs. Plano East.

Same thing in Waco. We've been getting lots of "everything but the Astros" recently, after having remarkably good coverage all season til the last three weeks or so.

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« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2008, 04:05:39 pm »
Four days left in the season, and ZERO baseball on last night.

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