T(sn)2 - Judgment Day

Are you shitting me? This, and a number of other articles outline the complete mindfuck that is the broadcast schedule of Raptors games. 25 games on TSN2? 

Essentially, a bunch of people in Toronto will not be able to watch one third of the games on TV this year, if Rogers or TSN or MLSE (and probably a bunch of other assholes) don't get their shit together.

Doug Smith:

All 82 Raptor games will be broadcast on television this season but if the schedule began today, cable viewers in the team's home market would miss almost a third of the games.

TSN2, the new secondary network operated by TSN, is scheduled to show 25 games but the network is not currently available on the Rogers cable system, which services the Greater Toronto Area.

So now, not only are most tickets completely overpriced, but now a lot of us won't be able to watch one third of the games on television? Talk about alienating your fan base.

Really then, what we have here is 25 games on TSN2; 20 games on the Score; 12 games on CBC; and the rest on regular old TSN? That's right. The Raptors are the child from a dysfunctional home that stays half the week with mom, then the other half with with dad, and then the weekends at grandma's. A latchkey team. 

A quick look at the each team's schedule shows that no other team has this kind of bullshit broadcasting schedule where games are spread out over so many different networks. And I'm also positive that most other NBA cities don't have to fucking upgrade to a new tier of cable just so they don't miss 25 games.   

Hopefully they straighten this shit out and Teddy Rogers at least gives us the option of subscribing to the fucking channel if we want to. But then again, if it equals more Rod Black on my TV, then I may have to reconsider that wish. Also, subscribing to more cable channels? Not exactly the most financially responsible decision in a global fucking recession.

Doug Smith also reports here that:

The major broadcast partner of the Raptors and the largest cable provider in the Toronto area have until the ninth game of the NBA regular season to work out a deal that will allow viewers in the team's home market to see all the games

They'll probably come to a deal, because cash rules everything around these greedy pigs. But if not, maybe I'll just cancel my cable, and listen to all of the games on the radio like it's fucking 1933.