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Cubs 2, Cardinals 2, bottom of the 8th inning.

I know that because for the first time in a long time, I am able to watch baseball. I've signed up for MLB.tv, meaning I can watch 2400 baseball games over the course of the 2006 baseball season. Friends will know that I am only really interested in 162 of them -- the ones that the Chicago Cubs will play.

I love being able to watch the games. In the year before I moved to London, I went to about 30 home ball games and a couple in Milwaukee...

Wait...

I LOVE BASEBALL!!! Derek Lee just hit a home run in the bottom of the 8th to take the lead.

Okay, back to the topic at hand...

So, yes, I went to many a game that year. I'd say over the course of my life, I've been to well over one hundred Chicago Cubs' games.

Since I've been here though, I've had to make due with the odd game broadcased on Channel Five, which is only a Cubs game once in a blue moon. And you have to listen to this moronic English guy gas on about something he just doesn't understand.

I've felt the loss too. I can't talk baseball anymore. I don't konw the numbers or the trends. You can read the papers and trawl the internet for info, but you can't get a feeling for your team or the Major League without watching.

Of course, as great as MLB.tv is, there is one problem which may cause a bit of a problem. I can't choose which team's coverage I get. So, right now I have to watch Cardinals-biased coverage. It sucks. The announcer keeps saying that they hope the Cards can hold on so Pujols can make it to the plate. Eff that!

The other thing, besides the wrongly biased coverage, is the fact that you get weird local commercials, like the commercial for the St. Louis-area supermarket Schnucks. A couple of things come to mind: One, that is a stupid name for anything, but probably fits right in in St. Louis, and two, Schnucks is but one letter away from Schmuck. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, St. Louis!

I need my WGN coverage. So, if any of my loyal readers have some pull with Major League Baseball, can you please figure out a way for me to get WGN coverage whenever I'm watching a game?

UPDATE: CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! Juan Encarnacion just popped up to second baseman Jerry Hairston Jr to end the game. Go Cubs! Cardinals suck!

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