Rat (expletives deleted) bastards.

There are a few people ID10T's out there who are lucky they weren't within reach last night.  Had I gotten my hands around the pencil necks of the program directors for NBC sports network, Fox Sports MW, and of course CenturyLink Prism I may have committed atrocious bloody murder. 

BUCKING FAT RASTARDS! 

No jury of my peers, in this case peers would have to be hockey fans would convict me.  A national network, NBCSN carried the game, the listing on the channel guide confirmed it.  They decided to broadcast English Premier League soccer instead.  Soccer is a great sport I'm sure, as far as sports things goes, and enjoyed by people world wide.  But here in the wastelands, in lieu of an intense rivalry, in game seven of the first round of the playoffs, ummm not so much.  The scrawling crawl across the bottom of the soccer game told me I could find the Black and Blue game 7 on Foxsports Mid-West.

Fine, groovy.  I'd rather watch it there anyway.  Except it wasn't there.  One FSMW channel broadcast a rerun of a UFC event from November 2014.  Really?  18 month old ancient history fights in which two people attempt to beat the living crap out of one another.  Seriously?  The other FSMW had Royals Baseball.  I get it, baseball is America's pass time, and the Royals are the world champs, whose boring, long-assed season is just beginning.  But a tough playoff game seven with the Blues trying to break a 3-year 1st round curse and the defending Stanley Cup champs trying their best to defend it.

RUCKING BAT FASTARDS!

Okay, plan "C".  I can tune in online to a StL. radio station I know will be broadcasting.  Except, due to the other previously mentioned circumstances everyone and their uncles were eating up bandwidth forcing some major buffering issues.  Ugh.

Plan "D".  NHL.com will have a live audio feed of the game, with Chicago broadcasters, from a Chicago station.  Ugh.

Fox Sports did finally pick up the game when the fights were done, at the top of the final period.

UCKINGFAY ATRAY ASTARDSBAY!

On the plus side, I'm still here and ahead of the pack.  You won't have to put up with my ranting about hockey for a few days.  Until Round 2 picks up against Dallas that is.

On the down side, I'm still here and only barely ahead of the pack.  You may very well have to put up with more inane, insane ramblings though.

As always, thanks for your time.

See you on Monday, I presume.  Peace.