I Need TV When I Got T-Wrecks?

 Know what I hate about 2025? Television!

Why does it have to be so fucking complicated? I grew up in the era of three network stations, one local with a side of PBS. This was in Chicagoland. You know the three networks, but we also had WGN which broadcast Chicago Cubs games, pretty much all over the country. So, we had four networks in a sense. 

TV life is different now. Cable came along- and it's still around- but it doesn't have the stranglehold it had for decades as someone decided to invent streaming because life wasn't complicated, or expensive enough for the masses. People hated cable after a while because of poor customer service and 'packages'. If you wanted a particular pay channel, you might have to get- and pay for- Latvian TV to get what you wanted. Mind you, they didn't force you to watch the Latvian channels, but you were paying for them. It's still like that with streaming, but who cares? We've been well-trained to accept all sorts of bullshit the last four decades.

Now, my Chicago Cubs are having a great season. I've only heard about it because their games are pretty much only available on the team owned, Marquee Network. My friend told me her family broke down and got it added to their service, and I figured I would go for it too. YouTube TV had raised their prices and waned my interest in them after I pretty much streamed all the good stuff they had to offer. I crunched the numbers and bouncing them and adding Marquee was going to save me $60 a month. Here's the math: 80-80= Zero, + 20 = -60. Get it? Let's move on.

Marquee seems fine so far, as it works. The weird dilemma was that my TV (a Vizio) doesn't accept the Marquee app. It was a minute before we figured that out. Michelle (my aforementioned friend) actually figured that one out. I'm a Luddite, so I never would have guessed. She advised that I could get a Roku 'stick' dealie and it would- I dunno- trick the Vizio into accepting the Marquee app. She was right! Thirty dollars later and a trip to Walmart, I had that going for me. That's great. She's got it going on with the internet and is blessed with a son who grew up with all this stuff. It's second nature for most kids today. 

As luck would have it though, my deal with Marquee started in the bottom of the ninth of last night's Cubs game, and tonight's Cubs game was exclusively broadcast by Apple+ TV. Now, for some reason, I have Apple +. I have no fucking clue why or how that happened. It's not costing me anything and as far as they are concerned, I have an account. I got with them and got a new email password and it looked like they had everything down to a T. A literal T it turned out. 

I don't know how they did it, but they added a literal capital "T" to my email addy. When I went to sign in for tonight's game (which WGN never made me do back in the day) my password was wrong. How could that be- I wrote it down! It was then I noticed that they had my email down as ending with a capital T. Even a Luddite like me knows that emails are- by law (maybe?)- lower case letters. How the fuck did they even email me back like that?? It wasn't accepting my password because my email was wrong! Could I change it? Apparently, fucking no. 

By that time, the game had already started, and I had over-napped after the day's ordeal. I quickly got a case of the fuckits and am watching a very good Stanley Cup hockey match instead. Thanks, YouTube! Even though we're about to break up, you were awesome, despite your quirks. I may never watch Apple+ again. I never did before and why start now when they make it so hard? 

Back to normal tomorrow though- I hope- as the Cubs play the Tigers (on Marquee) and will try to avenge the 3-1 loss I missed tonight.