Tonight, your seventh-ranked Boilermakers take on Kentucky Wesleyan in their second and final exhibition game, and you won't be able to watch.Wait, no, that's not entirely true. You can still pay the Big Ten Network to watch the game streaming on your computer (it's always easy to follow a basketball on a streaming feed) OR you can wait until three days from now at 3 in the morning and you can watch on the Big Ten Network. No, I'm not kidding. It's the year 2009 and the Big Ten Network is "tape delaying" this game until -- I guess -- they were able to find an opening in their programming schedule. To show live Big Ten sports action. Yeah, I do not understand it, either. But don't tell me how it ends. I'll be getting up at 3 this Thursday morning to watch.
Actually, no, we would like to know what happens and that's why we'd like to ask for a volunteer to do what Paul did for us last week and go to the game and report back what you see. Fire an email to BoiledSports@gmail.com and if you just say something like "Purdue won" then you win a kick in the gonads.
Oh, and there's no pay for this assignment. Hey, it's an exhibition game, after all.
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Tivo. Look into it. ;-)
My listing tells me that's it's women's volleyball in that slot.
Ditto on the volleyball
I'm happy to do the game recap again, I mean I'm going to it anyway...
Plus it's finally basketball season and I'm so fired up about every single syllable involving Purdue Basketball that I probably bore some people with constant analysis.
Make it happen, Paul.
Acacia -- yes, sir, I have two DVRs at my ranch. However, it's kind of stupid to have the game on TV at 3 AM 56 hours after it actually starts. That was more my point.
I'll be twittering from the Paint Crew for those who are so inclined. I try to update during most play stops. If you have twitter I am @jberlako or just go to http://www.twitter.com/jberlako
I should have my Twitter on the whole time, so feel free to direct message me if you want some more information than time, score, and my observations.
I *never* thought I would see this in my inbox:
"Dear Nate,
We have received your record request from directv.com. Please see the details of your request below:
Women's College Volleyball on Channel 610 BTNHD on 11/12/09 at 3:00 AM EST"
...I really hope I'm not recording women's volleyball...
I'm not too worried about exhibition games. If the BTN did this during the regular season, I would be upset.
J Money,
Agreed. I'm with you.
It requires extra discipline (at which I'll probably fail) to not look at scores for three days and see the game "live". Still better than before BTN came to Cox-suckers here in Phoenix, where my chances of seeing any of these games was exactly zero.
And don't call me sir, dammit. ;-)
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