Nope. I've given Les Alexander's team too much of my time, attention, and money already. I'm not giving a minute or a second more.
I have to admit that last year was the first year I missed most of the games after 24 years of seeing nearly all of them.
Batman, I hope you are still voting for Obama and interesting in theater? If not I think it might be depression. Glad to hear you will still be posting on the board as that would be a great loss. Maybe we can have a new forum. Rockets fans who only follow the team on clutchfans as we can't or won't pay to see it on TV or in person.
Well, of course I'm depressed; I'm a manic depressive. But I've been one for quite a long time so this isn't that. Of course I'm still voting for Obama. (I'm crazy, not stupid.) And my next play opens in exactly one week. There will be a feature about it in this week's Zest section of the Chronicle.
I am with Batman (not voting for Obama but..), if the Rockets don't work this out I will stop following them. If I can't watch their games I am not coming to Houston periodically anymore, not buying their stuff, etc. If they don't think enough of their fans to insure cable access, I'm done.
Unfortunately, this is an all too familiar scene that happens in the business world we live in today. First it was the NBA lockout. Everybody is trying to get their piece of the pie, so it is hard to really blame anybody for doing that. I imagine that as in any of these cases, things will only start to get moving once somebody is losing money. The worse part of all this is that the only one who is really getting screwed are the fans. Let's hope this doesn't drag on too far into the season!!!
Not intend to rain on your pain and frustration, but you don't have anything substantial to support your repeated claim that Lin is/will be a much inferior player to Dragic and Lowry, statistic wise, impact wise nationally or internationally. You just have too much SAS in you, I guess. If you don't like the team and its direction, divorce it and steer your attention somewhere else although it may be a tough thing to do for the fact that you've been such a long time fan. I mean why torture yourself for something you distain? I personally will not continue to watch the games if the Rockets suck this coming season, but I'll at least give them a chance of 1/3 of the season.
Either support the Rockets or don't. It's voluntary, so it's beyond me some of the entitlement that some fans have. Perhaps people take things too personally. As to the OP, I'm just going to hold out for ATT to get it. I oringinally had comcast and was going to keep them for reasons related to Rockets. However, when I moved apartments it would have taken them 3 different visits to get my stuff hooked up and these 3 different visits would have taken 22 days. So 22 days to get my internet and tv hooked up.... Well ATT did it in 3 days. I MAY have sucked it up if the Rockets were playoff bound but there's no reason to suck it up this season.
Well if you took the time to go through this thread you would learn that the Rockets aren't in total control of how their games get aired. If what I read and understood is correct, the Astros currently have more power. So again, it's not all on the Rockets.
It's sad, since the team isn't gonna be a contender, and the Rockets, Comcast and I guess the Astros are basically screwing customers on DirecTV, Dish and AT&T out of the channel for more money a month per subscriber.
Here's some news on the Lakers new networks and how its negotiations with DirectTV and other providers are going: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...el-time-warner-cable-20121025,0,5784829.story
Revenue.. One thing no one seems to take into consideration is the fact that advertising alone pays for the channel; the companies that advertise during the games are paying through the nose for that. Which is why we *used* to get the games on channel 39/20 etc. This is pure greed on the part of the Rockets, Astros, and worst Concash. ATT wants another $7, when I already pay near $200 a month hell no I won't pay for that. I've been a fan for 30+ years now, and the gall of the Rockets and their partners to try fleecing the fans, and forcing a vastly inferior cable provider on the populous is tantamount to a call for a mutiny by their loyal fans. With out your tax dollars, no Toyota center. I'm incredibly angry over this whole fiasco, while you debate whose to blame, I know precisely who it is it's the Rockets, Astros, and Concash.
