martinss01;636091; said:
so you walk into a restaurant and order a steak. the cook walks out and says "fuck you! i don't feel like making you a steak. your options are a bologna sandwich or spinach cassarol. you'll damn well eat it, like it, pay the same rate for what we are willing to serve you that you would the steak, and tip your server well." so your saying your response would be, "well, i guess i'm lucky they are serving me anything at all"? ummmm no, your going to tell them what they can go do with themselves and go somewhere else in order to get the service you desire. afterwards your more than likely going to send a few nasty grams to their local management as well as their company headquarters assuming it isn't a mom and pop shop.
This analogy isn't even relevant. You can't walk into a Pizza Hut, get beligerent, and start demanding items from Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell. It doesn't matter whether they're all under the same parent company umbrella or not. It isn't about refusing to serve what's on the menu. What you want isn't on the menu to begin with, because you're in the wrong restaurant.
martinss01;636091; said:
just because there are fewer players in this particular game doesn't mean they are magically above reproach.
My point is that if given the choice between ESPN, the Big Ten, and Time Warner as avenues for complaint, one of them is the correct one to call. TW can add ESPNU if there is a demand for it.
My problem is with the absurdity that Ohio State fans think this is something new and being perpetrated directly at them to leverage the vocal Ohio State fan base to pressure cable companies into carrying other channels. It's not. It's happening to hundreds of fan bases in every sport every single year. The exact same thing happened when ESPN introduced ESPN2. TW adding a channel does not mean your cable rates will necessarily go up either. They can just as well drop a subscription to some other, lesser viewed channel and sub in better choices for their packages.
Is anyone calling TW and bitching about paying for 80 channels they NEVER watch? Probably not.
Has anyone called TW yet and asked if they'll be carrying the Big Ten Channel packages next year? Everybody does realize that once the Big Ten Channel goes live, the Big Ten/ESPN Gameplan partnership goes kaput, right?
Consumer apathy that has allowed this market system to flourish over the past 15 years is at fault here, not the Big Ten offices. If you're calling to complain about it now, you're not a week late, a month late, or a year late. You're two full decades too late.
martinss01;636091; said:
why exactly do i pay 100 bucks a month for digital cable + dvr again?
I don't know. I only pay $50 for my service and I'm happy with it. You made your choice of a television provider when you signed your contract with them. If you're not happy with your channel selection or the price they're billing you, you should call them to complain or switch providers.
BuckeyeMike80 said:
look you can sit here and take it if you want too. I won't. There will be a day when they put OSU-Michigan on ESPNU and 20 people will get to see the game.
Just lie down and take it. And here I thought I was amongst Buckeye fans.
I'm not laying down and taking it, nor am I suggesting others do either. I'm simply suggesting that some people need to take the silver spoon out of their mouth, because Buckeye games on TV IS NOT A BIRTHRIGHT.
Find another D1A institution that has had an unbroken consecutive games streak of regional/national televised games for over nine years.
This is only an issue now because it rarely happens at OSU, and a number of OSU fans are predictibly acting like spoiled, rotten crybabies.
