Baseball withdrawal

[bktheirregular]

So those reading along at home may have noted two facts:

1) I'm a fan of the New York Yankees.
2) I'm a third of a planet away from the nearest baseball broadcast.

Simple solution: sign up for Internet broadcasts, right? Wrong. Because my billing address is still in New York, the MLB machines think that I'm still in New York, so they thoughtfully and helpfully black me out.

Now, I'm on a five-day trial plan - I'd budgeted the money for this expense, figuring I'd want to sign up for it. I hadn't figured on being locked out from seeing the one team I wanted to see.

So I call customer service. And I get disconnected. I call from Skype, they think I never connected. I call using one of the cheap-call services they've got here in Greece, they think I never connected. And if anyone thinks I'm going to call using standard international rates ... I've got a bridge to sell.

Frustrating, that I can't hold that connection long enough to talk to someone - it's like I keep getting kicked to the back of the line.

Grr. Arrgh.

And I'm starting to twitch. Baseball = sanity.