OPINION : If YouTube idiot box is pass to keep fire prices , it ca n’t give way sports fans as it did on Wednesday night when NBA coverage shit out at the critical critical point .
NBA Eastern Conference Finals . Game 1 . Heat at Celtics . Crunch time . We ’re deep in the fourth poop with the Heat up 7 point with under five potentially series - defining minutes to play . Crunch time . There ’s a metre out on the base .
As usual during these critical timeouts , the TV networks take a interruption . I take a breathing spell too . I ’m about to launch myself through the video if these ref call one more easy foul on my underdog Miami Heat as they go after a critical route win in the 7 game serial publication against the Championship favourites – and my most disdain rival team – the Boston Celtics .
I ca n’t get past that bloody trailer . I ’m starting to empathise with Sebastian Crab , who magnificently sang : “ Ariel , mind to me , the human domain , it ’s a mess , life under the sea is better than anything they got up there . ”
I have it off the secret plan is back on because I can see the clock move in my summercater scotch app . The Celtics have just bring down the lead to 5 points and I ’m freaking out at this point . Frothing and swearing and waking my wife up . Frantic to download and lumber into the TNT app in time for the final stage of the game .
Meanwhile I ’m restarting my Apple TV and turn back my internet connection trying to nix the bug . As if these game are n’t stressful enough . It ’s a good thing the good kinfolk of Twitter take in the suspect side .
YouTube TV had die me at the worst fourth dimension . I ’m finally into the TNT standalone app and have linked my YouTube TV history with under a minute to go . I ’ve missed the game ’s polar guess , a Jimmy Butler 3 - arrow that bounced off the brim multiple times before dropping through the lucre .
The Heat were go to make headway , but the moment was lost . By the time YouTube TV set out working on the television again , the sports stadium was empty and the post - game analysis was over .
All this from a serve that had just put its costs up , yet again just a few workweek antecedently , to $ 72.99 a month plus taxes ( comes out at about $ 84 for me ) . YouTube TV is now must as expensive as cable was , back in the day that you draw internet like HBO and Showtime bundled in .
There are greater advantage , of course . The cloud DVR , the range of devices you could watch alive television on , the multiple coincidental current , and the way they do n’t seem to mind that I ’m logged in at my in - police too .
If the company is go away to consign exchange premium Leontyne Price to enable access to these showpiece events , it ca n’t fail spectator at those biggest moments .
