The Kentucky Derby is on TV today.  A 2 minute horse race.

A 2 minute horse race which has 180 minutes of tv coverage, seems a bit excessive to me.

Back in October I wrote about being stuck in Comcast Purgatory. About a month or two ago that all changed. I was flipping thru the channels one day and noticed that I landed on Comcast Sports Net twice. I spent time watching both and it was evident after a few days that I picked up CSN out of Philly while at the same time keeping CSN MidAtlantic. If I remember correctly CSN Philly replaced ESPN Classics on the analog end of the channels. I currently do not subscribe to the HD package so I dont know if CSN Philly is available in my area.

So thank you Comcast. I can watch Flyers hockey now. I still have to chuckle a bit about CSN Philly being taken away from Shawn a neighbor behind me. If Comcast does consolidate the feed here in Littlestown to the formerly Suscom head-end from the formely Adelphia/GS Communications network he will at somepoint be able to pick CSN Philly back up.

I am stuck in a sort of Comcast Purgatory. Stuck between being too close to Philadelphia yet being too far away from Philly to be a Flyers fan. I am not the only one. Icer44 in that thread is almost an hour closer to Philly then I am. I live about a 138 miles, 2 hours and 39 minutes drive away from the Wachovia center.

There are 2 ways to pick up the majority of the Philadelphia Flyers games. One is to watch Comcast SportsNet(CSN) Philadelphia, the other is to pick up the NHL Center Ice Package. In my area neither works for me with Comcast.

I moved up to a small town in Adams County Pennsylvania back in 2001. Back then we had a choice for cable companies, GS Communications and Susquehanna Communications (Suscom). Neither provider offered CSN Philly, instead carried what is now called CSN Mid-Atlantic. At the time it carried the Orioles along with Wizards basketball and Capitals hockey. At the time it appeared that carrying that channel instead of CSN Philly made a little sense. Even though my tiny town is in PA, I am closer to Balitmore and even DC then I am Philly or Pittsburgh. We are considered the Baltimore market, closer to the Orioles then the Phillies.
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I am not a big soccer, er futbol fan although I did catch some of the world cup action and it was pretty good. It would have been nice to see the US team advance farther, but eh, that’s the way it goes. I did see the infamous headbutt by France’s Zinedine Zidane’s on Italy’s Marco Materazzi. Here is my view on the situation, one dude that headbutts someone and gets a red card should not be named World Cup best player, no matter what was said to him. There has to be other players that contributed just as much with out physically assaulting another player. Two, its pathetic that they are getting lip readers to try to figure out what the guy said. Does it really matter? What ever happens to sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me? Is it that bad that if Materazzi said something so bad that he should be penalized for it? This reminds me of the clip below with Kevin Stevens and Brian Trottier of the Pittsburgh Penguins giving some lip speak to Brian Bellows of the Minnesota North Stars.

South Korea insteald of Japan, but still good.