The FRS have the night off, but I thought I might see if I had issues with any other baseball broadcasts (not that I expected to, as everyone I tried last year worked fine.) When I logged on with my email and password I was dumped to a page that said to access that content I would have to subscribe by paying $14.95.
I guess someone at MLB.com got my email requesting cancellation. They haven’t yet acknowledged it and of course, they have not yet credited my charge card.
After rereading the blurb from the email:
MLB.com will honor any refund request for a seasonal subscription made within 10 days of the purchase for the current season or at any time before the subsequent season begins.
I haven’t missed my opportunity to get a refund, now is the time. My credit card was charged on Monday, so I have until the 13th to request my money back.
They’ve got it covered though, take the phone off the hook. I tried calling them 4 separate times today and all I got was a busy signal. I’m sure the phone is not off the hook, but their lines are overloaded by folks like me trying to get their money back.
Now I’m not so sure I want it back. While listening to tonight’s broadcast it was fine up until the 6th inning or so, then it started to break up. At the half inning I shut down the player, cleared IE’s cache, closed and restarted the browser, restarted the player and it has been fine ever since. Once is just anecdotal evidence, more experimentation is required.
I pretty much ignore pre-season baseball, because well, it doesn’t count. Friday night I received an email from MLB.com reminding me that my Gameday Audio subscription was going to be automatically renewed. After last year’s experience I thought it might be a good idea to tun into the last preseason Red Sox game playing right then. Guess what? That’s right, the same issue I had with the WEEI broadcasts last year, annoying sound gaps, were present again. So I turned it off in disgust and fired off a reply to that email telling them that I wished to cancel my subscription.
MLB.com will honor any refund request for a seasonal subscription made within 10 days of the purchase for the current season or at any time before the subsequent season begins.
By Saturday afternoon I hadn’t received a reply to the email and time was running out. I dialed the 1-800 number in the email. After drilling down through the voice mail prompts to get where I needed to be, I was informed that I should call back during their normal working hours, Monday through Friday 9 AM to 8 PM and Saturday from 12 noon to 6 PM, then automatically disconnected. Wait a minute it is 4 PM eastern time, unless their phone support is in Hawaii, I was calling in their “normal working hours.” Very convenient, Sunday is the start of the season, so they have pretty much guaranteed that I won’t be able to get a refund.
And Thelma was her name (actually it was Thelma’s daughter Myrtis driving the car.) Donna and I were on our way to work, minding our own business, stopped at a light when Myrtis, while driving her kids to school, wasn’t paying attention and tried to subvert the laws of physics, to wit, no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time.
She says she was stopping and started to fix her son’s shoes or something and must have felt she would stop in time and just misjudged. She hit us at less than 5 MPH I bet. No one was hurt because of the low speed and we were all buckled in. I’ve got a bent trunk and there is nothing wrong with her vehicle, a Jeep Grand Cherokee with a brush guard on the front (see picture in the more section below.)
I got on the cell phone and called Johnny Law. After a minute or two, a passing off duty fireman pulled up behind us and put on his flashers so no one would plow into the back of Myrtis. While we waited we exchanged information and chatted about the world. Because Aiken is such a small town we both had to assure several friends of ours that we were fine as they passed by on the way to work or whatever.
A city police officer showed up about 10 minutes later, took our paperwork and filled out an accident report. He didn’t ticket her, but did put a check mark in the box labeled “Contributed to Accident” on her side of the form. The only possible negative in the whole thing is that her mom’s insurance card was out of date. Let’s hope it is a simple oversight.
While I read on one end of the couch, Donna was on the other watching TV. Mostly the reruns of yesterday’s World Ice Skating Championships, but during commercials and lapses in excitement she would surf the channels. At one point she nudged me to remove my headphones. CNN was doing an interview with someone involved with a new IMAX movie called Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France. Looks interesting, but it is not playing at any IMAX theater within 600 miles of us. Sigh.
After the movie segment we hopped to the other CNN where they were into something about the increasing number of major hurricanes. Seems it might be because since the 70’s the surface temperature of the oceans has risen 1 degree Celsius. Last winter was the warmest on record. Glaciers melting! Global Warming! The reporter pinned down one scientist to say that it is because of human actions that this happening. We are ruining the very environment we need to survive.
From there she jumped to Bravo where Real Housewives of Orange County was on. After watching a couple of minutes of this very weird show I came to the conclusion that if this is what life is all about, causing our own extinction via global warming can’t come soon enough.
No, not TDTVS, but First Daughter.
I put this movie in the rental queue at the behest of my lovely wife. I’m not exactly sure what prompted her to want this movie (maybe because it starred the future Mrs. Tom Cruise,) which is fine because sometimes I’m not sure where I get the idea to add a movie either. The disc showed up in Saturday’s mail and we decided to watch it that evening. We endured about 25 minutes of it before hitting the eject button.
It went back in the mail to Netflix on Monday. It still hasn’t arrived back at movie central, so tonight I reported it missing. They say they forgive an occasional missing disc, but if you pass a certain level they might cancel your membership. I just hope they don’t think I liked the movie so much that I decided to keep it, I don’t need that kind of reputation.
Today was the first day of spring and it felt more like winter than most of winter did. Average high is 72 and we were at least 20 degrees cooler with overcast skies. The highs for the rest of the week is going to be in the lower 60’s, at least it is supposed to be sunny.