On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mike Abegg wrote:

> "Good News" is, I guess, a relative term.  The advantage to Fox Sports Net
> handling the games was that they were available nationally on many digital
> cable systems as part of the 4-channel Fox Sports Digital package.  For HE
> fans living in, say, MINNESOTA, this meant that I could actually watch the
> Hockey East games...which I won't be able to with the NESN contract.

What percentage of the games actually made it onto the digital cable
"best of"?  That's a promising addition, but not enough to make me
seriously consider abandoning DirecTV, since there's no guarantee the
game you want to watch will be picked up by the compiled channels.
(Plus, as you say, it doesn't help with NESN, MSG, or YES.)

> Don't even THINK of saying "satellite dish"...they work just fine, EXCEPT
> if you have a tall building in the way!

So I think all we can give you are two of the most frustrating words
for fans of obscure sports: Sports Bar.  (I'm partial to Damon's
because of the individual speaker boxes that actually let you *listen*
to your game and not just whatever hype-fest is on the main speaker
system.)
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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