Trail Blazers offer live streaming for fans in areas where Comcast SportsNet Northwest is unavailable http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...ers_offer_live_streaming_for_fans_in_are.html The same should be done here until Comcrap negotiates with all the providers. Or better yet, they should just offer a free preview to all the providers until they drag on with these negotiations.
Gosh, I don't know. Maybe because I ****ing followed them religiously for almost 40 ****ing years? Think I could be allowed to be pissed for maybe 40 weeks? You obviously respect my long-standing loyalty to the team about as much as Les does. And you obviously have Comcast and don't give a crap about people that don't. Thanks, "friend."
well i live in spring, tx.. you know, just south of the woodlands... in a new residential community that is very nice... you know, 20 miles from toyota center and Comcast doesn't provide coverage to my area... i'm really not getting the whole play here. I would think selling advertising for the network would be almost impossibru currently
**** that. This city has more fair weather sports fans than just about any other. You ever see how many empty seats there are at Toyota Center? You ever attend a game? The people with the good seats spend the whole game at the bar. I'm not one of those fans. I'm a fan that hasn't missed a single game since the first championship run until this year. I'm offended as hell that the team returns that loyalty with 'change providers or get lost.'
I don't know how you feel about Baseball or the Astros, but the Astros own a bigger share of CSN than the Rockets. It could possibly be the Astros slowing **** down. Astros don't give two ****s. They're letting the Rockets take the heat. Astros don't start up until April. People need to head up to the Logo/Jersey unveiling tonight and do some **** about it. Also, you said something earlier about this being the only team in the league with something silly like this. The Trailblazers and the Lakers have issues. The LAKERS. THE NBA GOLDEN CHILD FRANCHISE has problems.
Most of us don't even have that choice; Comcast is not available in Eastern Texas, an area larger that many states.
You know, I know you're kidding and that's cool, but I sort of don't appreciate the moderators of a Rockets fan site making light of a situation where so many fans are left out in the cold. I consider Clutch a good friend in real life, but I've been annoyed that the season coverage has just gone on as normal while so many fans are being treated like crap. The same thing has happened with the Chronicle and it's a fresh slap in the face. For those of us that don't have the good fortune to have Comcast or don't live in Houston (as this is the only place the games are unavailable), there is NO other story. I'd like to see how righteous RM95 would be if he was actually missing the games. He is very obviously and very hypocritically commenting from a POV of being able to watch the games. In fact, I'd wager that everyone that isn't royally pissed about this either has Comcast, lives outside of Houston and watches on League Pass, or never cared very much about the team in the first place.
I agree, it's not Uverse, Dish, etc, it's Concash, The Astros, and the Rockets in that order of ownership. Troll their FB and Twitter pages, advertise the fact you're watching it in HD via a stream, and without advertising. If you're really pissed contact their advertiser's marketing departments to tell them the same, remind them over 60% of Houston can't see the game because of Concash's greed/the teams greed. Do you part and we can make this happen!
The more you guys make a big deal of the situation by going on Comcast's Facebook or whatever you're doing the worse you are making it. Comcast wants people to be emotional so they can show the carriers how much people want the channel. Stay silent and they'll wonder why nobody cares that they can't see the Rockets and they'll begin to cave.
Absurd While it's easy for Comcast subscribers to blast those of us in the dark and unable to watch the Rockets, it's in poor taste. We're all just fans interested in watching a team. The Rockets are (were) the sole team in Houston that I passionately followed. Never missed a game, whether watching it at Summit/Compaq or Toyota Center, or watching it from my couch. I've owned season tickets in the past, and I've considered purchasing a half package this season. The tragedy of this mess is that if it were left to the customers ... the FANS, most of us, if not all of us, would reach into our own pockets and shell out however much it takes to get the Rockets on our TVs. Ridiculously, we're not even given that option. I have no clue who is to blame for the delayed and stalled negotiations. I don't think any of us know for sure. So, screw 'em all.
yes I was kidding I don't live in Houston and I am in the same boat you are because I live close enough to be covered by the blackouts. I have DISH so I won't see the games until a contract is worked out. But I have also learned that getting myself stressed over something like not being able to see a few NBA games is not healthy for me. For you to criticize my passion for the team is in itself hypocritical, especially after you telling everyone, as much as you were done with the team. That in and of itself seems to be RM95's point. So instead of being angry and letting it fester into a brain aneurysm, I have chosen to do things more productive with the time I would have spent watching the Rockets. Stuff like spending it with my wife and kids, actually playing basketball, or doing other things I enjoy. When the games come back (and they will), I will be right back to watching them with the same fervor I have had for 30 years. I don't speak for Clutch, but I imagine he is somewhat annoyed at the fact so many aren't seeing the games. But he probably also doesn't have a lot of say in how the Rockets manage their affairs. I would also think that saying much about it would cause some awkwardness and potentially hinder the access he has. As for coverage, this thread is 58 pages. I'm sure it would be easy to flood this forum with 100 threads about the situation. But then we would have people griping that the only thing being discussed is the non tv deal.I pretty much know that if i want to see the latest info on the situation then I can look in this thread. If a deal is reached then I expect to see a new thread saying as much. I'm not sure what more you want in terms of coverage other than possibly someone writing a scathing editorial about what is going on (I am seriously not trying to be facetious with this, I really don't know what you are expecting as far as coverage of it in here).
Not the way I see it. People aren't blaming their providers for not having the channel, because no big providers (other than Comcast obviously) have the channel. If Dish had it and the others were holding out, it would be different. In my mind, too many people are being silent. Only like 5 comments on their page in the past hour, makes it look like people don't care.
I don't know that I share your optimism that "silence" will somehow cause them to "cave" or alter their position. They're (Comcast) hedging right now that they can get a premium for carriage rights with the buzz and excitement surrounding the team and the acquisition of Harden. Comcast is in a superior bargaining position, regardless of the chatter on a fan site. My guess is that nothing gets worked out until after Christmas, or until the Rockets grow stale or hit a rough spell where some of excitement wears away for the team. Should the feverish pitch surrounding the Rockets continue? We're hosed. Look at Portland and the 6 years they've been waiting for Comcast to work out carriage rights with cable companies in that DMA.
