Wednesday, April 8, comcast blacked out cards games. My son and I are avid St. Louis cardinals fans and unfortunately comcast customers as well. My son gets extremely excited at the throught of being able to enjoy a cardinals game with his dad and when comcast fails to air games that are scheduled to be on FSN Midwest it severely disappoints him. Comcast seriously needs to rethink this strategy, especially in the Peoria, Bloomington and Springfield, Illinois areas where there are a very large number of Cardinals fans and an even larger number of baseball fans in general.
I personally know several people who have switched to DirecTV and DishNetwork specifically because of this gaffe on comcast's part and, though I have no real clue what the extra 20 games would cost comcast but I can only imagine that they are losing money on this venture, not saving it.
In addition to my feeble, mild mannered rant I would like to post some thoughts of other customers and former customers that I found on a local newspaper's comment board: Birdswin wrote on Apr 15, PM: " This is the same thing cable pulled last year. I can easily tell you, I had more problems and dissatisifaction with my TV service in those 7 weeks than I did in the previous 10 years and the 1 year since with satellite TV service.
It is very rare when a storm blocks out the service and I have not ever had that happen in the winter months. Go Cardinals!! Do you really need to watch that many games?
Comcast could have raised their rates again to give you these 20 games. I hear all you people complain about Comcast and Insight and say your going to switch. Nobody is keeping you from changing. It is a free market. Do what you want. If you dont like Walmarts produce then go to Krogers. Its your choice. Good luck getting a service man to your house with Dish.
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