Cynic's Corner

Since you didn't ask, yes, we were absolutely correct that clusterfuck would be far too understated a description for FacebookWatch's pathetic attempt to stream Thursday afternoon's Dodgers at Diamondbacks game. (They insisted on the  added assholery of a superimposed lozenge giving the number of sucker-ass chumps viewing; we don't remember it going over 35-odd thousand.)

Not that we don't suspect Spectrum of throttling our iNternet speed, & the laptop is a little old (purchased 10 yrs. ago next Hallowe'en); video hasn't been videoing as it used to & time spent waiting for requests to be processed & secure connections to be established has increased considerably since Microsoft's "Fall Creators Update", but not only couldn't we get a stream that lasted more than 15-20 secs., it wouldn't even load on the bigger screen using Chromecast, just a gray screen w/ that stupid "f" logo. Later, dots streaming back & forth appeared so idiots could pretend it'd be fully buffered at any sec., but by then I was listening on the radio (better than the Facebook announcers, if you couldn't guess) & eventually the Chromecast gave up & started w/ the slideshow of inoffensive photographs.

Mitigation: As the game went to the bottom of the ninth, w/ the former Brooklyn Bums having come from behind (On wild pitches & a balk; don't get your hopes up.) & leading 5-2 w/ Kenley Jansen on the mound we decided to take another shot at watching, & the Chromecast worked. But, to keep kvetching, the picture was not, to these eyes, quite as good as Spectrum's narrowcasting.

In conclusion, today's entry in bloggery at Crooks & Liars is the "Moron or Idiot?" Edition (& May The Fourth Be W/ You Day, which is not usually on our space-radar.)