OrangeHoof
06-09-2014, 01:21 AM
...unless you live in the Chicago area. Same is true for the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140530/NEWS01/140539978/wgn-america-to-drop-chicago-sports
Another American institution is going away. Some of my first memories of owning cable was being able to watch Cubs games in the afternoon and marveling at how clearly you could see the blades of grass even though you were watching a signal that went from the ballpark to the tv studio to up to a satellite and back to the local carrier and then amped several times on the way to your house.
Jack Brickhouse and Lou Boudreau. Later, Harry Caray and Steve Stone. The Cubs almost always sucked but they sucked entertainingly. And their announcers were such homers; it all worked so well because you knew, in the end, the Cubs would still suck.
But it was daytime baseball when there was nothing else to watch in the summer so I watched.
If you want to remember what it used to be like, here's a classic from 1979:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrwJZRZYFI
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140530/NEWS01/140539978/wgn-america-to-drop-chicago-sports
Another American institution is going away. Some of my first memories of owning cable was being able to watch Cubs games in the afternoon and marveling at how clearly you could see the blades of grass even though you were watching a signal that went from the ballpark to the tv studio to up to a satellite and back to the local carrier and then amped several times on the way to your house.
Jack Brickhouse and Lou Boudreau. Later, Harry Caray and Steve Stone. The Cubs almost always sucked but they sucked entertainingly. And their announcers were such homers; it all worked so well because you knew, in the end, the Cubs would still suck.
But it was daytime baseball when there was nothing else to watch in the summer so I watched.
If you want to remember what it used to be like, here's a classic from 1979:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrwJZRZYFI