We haven’t had cable for quite some time. I don’t miss it much, really…except sometimes when I’m bored (which isn’t all that often with this crew ). But my poor husband is now terribly upset that we are without, for he just went to the ESPN website and found out all of the wonderful EPL matches that are coming up, and he is going to miss. Especially the Liverpool match. Poor thing. Don’t you all feel badly for him? :roll: I think someone here should post about it after the fact, and say what a great game it was, so I can tell him. Or would that just be TOO evil? Not that I’m above that or anything…
Oh, and you can just put this up with the other meaningless posts I’ve posted as of late. I’ve only had one cup of coffee this morning you see
Izz, having taken this small step, why not go the whole hog and do away with TV altogether? I’m convinced that life in general, and family life in particular, is better without it.
And if hubby really want to see a particular match, surely there’s a pub or café, preferably one that serves good coffee, nearby that he can go to and watch the game with others. Much more fun.
I’ve never had cable. For special sports events, one option is to find a sports bar and buy a couple of drinks. Another option is to find a friend with similar interests and buy him/her pizza. Both can get expensive, but even the cost of basic cable (about $30 a month) buys a lot of beer and pizza over the course of a year.
Other options: There are also probably sites that give regular updates. SW radio may provide play-by-play.
Oh, that poor baby… :roll: . Imagine a man having to live without sports…
I’m not familiar with the EPL…European Pingpong League?
If your hubby fancies a real sport he can take up gurning!!!
I envy Steve and his courage to live without television…I think we’d all be better off without it (except perhaps for important news events and documentaries). Most importantly though, I’m afraid I couldn’t give up my old movie channel. Sports? I say “bah!” (except for the Yankees’ games, of course - that goes without saying).
This is where we are headed…we just haven’t gotten the guts to do it altogether. I do love to watch movies (and as Susan made me remember, I DID love the old movie channels when we had cable), and I’d miss that. But I am of the thinking the the TV is a useless thing for the most part, and I admire you for doing it, Steve. If we move to where we are hoping to move to (well, where I’m hoping to move to anyway), our TV won’t work anymore, so we can just pitch it before we go!
No, the English Premier League aka English soccer for those of us more stateside. Which is why his going to a pub or something isn’t really an option, for unless it’s American football, it doesn’t get played here for the most part. And who was it that said we Americans DO have culture? Oh, and for the record, I’m more saying all of this in jest…he’d love to watch the games but it isn’t worth it to him to get cable just for that either.
Flydood, I’m not sure when it all is…if you go to ESPN there is something on it. At least that’s where my EPL-aholic husband found it all. If I get a minute, I’ll look it up for you.
Of course you really meant the Sox games. No one really could possibly watch Yankees games and ENJOY it…unless they’re being sloshed by the Sox
Izz and suzz, no courage or guts involved in my not having a TV. My parents finally got one when I was about 14, I suppose I watched it a fair bit until I left home a few years later. Never had one since, just never got around to it.
Growing up with British TV in the 1960s I always assumed that the point of TV was to make good programs. A few years ago I spent a week working outside Kansas City with nothing to do in the evenings except watch the hotel telly. It was then it hit me like a bolt of lightning that the point of commercial TV programming is not to make good programs at all. It’s purely to try to make sure you don’t switch channels!
Quiz for you. This comes from the text of a lecture by a communications guru I read recently.
Q: TV is a commercial activity. What is the product being sold?
). But my poor husband is now terribly upset that we are without, for he just went to the ESPN website and found out all of the wonderful EPL matches that are coming up, and he is going to miss. Especially the Liverpool match. Poor thing. Don’t you all feel badly for him? :roll: I think someone here should post about it after the fact, and say what a great game it was, so I can tell him. 
Or would that just be TOO evil? Not that I’m above that or anything… 
No, the English Premier League aka English soccer for those of us more stateside. Which is why his going to a pub or something isn’t really an option, for unless it’s American football, it doesn’t get played here for the most part. And who was it that said we Americans DO have culture? 
Oh, and for the record, I’m more saying all of this in jest…he’d love to watch the games but it isn’t worth it to him to get cable just for that either.
Of course you really meant the Sox games. No one really could possibly watch Yankees games and ENJOY it…unless they’re being sloshed by the Sox