{"id":243,"date":"2008-07-05T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-07-05T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T18:10:32","slug":"fox-sports-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports Sucks!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argh. Faux Sports, the world&#8217;s WORST sports network, has the rights to today&#8217;s Red Sox\/Yankmees\u00c2\u00a0game and the Cubs game. Since the Cubs are the local team, I don&#8217;t get to see the Sox on Fox. And since MLB caved in to Fox&#8217;s ridiculous demands for a nationwide blackout, I don&#8217;t get to see it on MLB.com either.\u00c2\u00a0 Wonderful.\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faux Sports screws up Formula One coverage, they insult the intelligence of all baseball fans by adding in their moronic sound &#8220;supplements&#8221; such as the ball striking the catcher&#8217;s mitt, and now they&#8217;re screwing up Red Sox coverage for fans outside the normal Sox viewing area. I fail to understand how or why it&#8217;s economically advantageous for them to do a really poor job covering sporting events, yet they seem to be making money at it. Go figure.\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/meh.gif\" alt=\"Meh\" height=\"15\" style=\"width: 15px; height: 15px\" title=\"Meh\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argh. Faux Sports, the world&#8217;s WORST sports network, has the rights to today&#8217;s Red Sox\/Yankmees\u00c2\u00a0game and the Cubs game. Since the Cubs are the local team, I don&#8217;t get to see the Sox on Fox. And since MLB caved in to Fox&#8217;s ridiculous demands for a nationwide blackout, I don&#8217;t get to see it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}