When we started watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 tonight, to get ready to see Part 2 this week, the Red Sox at Tampa Bay were in the sixth inning. The movie is two-and-a-half hours long, it’s over, and the game is in the 13th inning, still scoreless! Now they’re going to a 14th inning??
And now, inning 15! I don’t know when NESN stopped carrying the game, but they’re showing infomercials now. WEEI radio is hanging in, so maybe I will too, but it’s 1:15 AM! Fortunately, I’m taking tomorrow — I mean today — off from work.
Finally! Pedroia delivers in inning 16. Red Sox 1. But it’s not over yet, and it’s a quarter to 2!
Whew! It’s over. One nothing, Red Sox.
I don’t know anything about FiOS and all those fancy dish TV/whatever services, because we still get a simple cable server. He’s decided, once again, to pull all out the stops this weekend and offer everything available to him. This means most channels have to be moved from their regular spot to accommodate premium channels. It gets very confusing, but it’s great fun to have “the good stuff” for a week straight. Molly and I like “The Movie Channel” because its heavy on “indy” movies, many of them of which are better than the higher-profile stuff.
Bastards! I just go to FiOS TV channel 76. It’s all I know how to do to see the Red Sox!
The game was not on NESN last night because it was on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. NESN cannot broadcast the game if it is on ESPN or is chosen as FOX’s Saturday 4:00 pm game. “Exclusivity.” This weekend, the Sox-Rays were on BOTH FOX and ESPN, so NESN only had the Friday night game. Most Sunday games are afternoon games, unless they are selected by ESPN for the 8:00 pm start – thus an almost 2:00 am ending instead of a 6:00 pm ending! It’s very rare for a game to be 0-0 for so many innings.
Whoa. That’s a long game.