Sports

-Watched the Timberwolves/Jazz game tonight. The Timberwolves are now no longer tied for the 2nd worst record in the league. Instead they are tied for the 3rd worst record in the league. Progress!

Of course, I wasn't able to watch it on TV, since it wasn't broadcast tonight. So Alex went towards the ILLEGAL STREAMING WEBSITES in order to get his fix of bad basketball.

Say what you will about certain illegal endeavors people engage in over the internet, but the illegal streams are pretty amazing and I would wholeheartedly give it my approval in case someone named me the judge on internet morality for whatever reason. I don't know what the details are that prevents all local games from being televised (it might just be a way to get people to attend the games, might be a stipulation with the network/arena/league/whatever), but it seems overall pretty silly that you don't want a large majority of your fanbase to actually see the game. So by streaming the game tonight--what rules am I exactly breaking?

And a lot of my usage of the illegal streams are for channels that would otherwise be free, it's just usually necessitated whenever I'm at Sara's place--who doesn't have television (she does... but she doesn't get any channels)--and want to watch some football game or whatever. In this case, I don't even know why it's illegal and it seems more like a mere annoyance that I have to resort to something considered illegal to watch a game or whatever. I guess I don't know all the intricacies of network television and I'm just making assumptions based off of what I would like to happen, but couldn't CBS or whatever just stream their channel online? They've streamed the NCAA tournament games the past few years, and those days have been pretty much the only times I've watched anything on CBS aside from football games. If they put something like The Late Show on their website while it was streaming, I'd probably turn it on every so often and pay as much attention to the ads as I usually do.

In other words, I don't know what the hell television networks are doing most of the time.

-The lockout in the NFL has started, and I for one couldn't be any more excited.

I've read that a lot of people are pretty upset about the fact that they couldn't come to an agreement, which seems rather silly to me, since the only thing that's been affected is that teams can't make any moves anymore. No games have been canceled yet, and if they reach the point where they do get canceled--then people have the right to be mad.

Right now, though... we should be excited that the owners are going to hopefully lose every battle in-between now and whenever the lockout ends. I mean, some rich jackoffs might get completely hosed in court for being too greedy--that has to be exciting if it happens, right?