Like having sex while wearing gloves …

Terribly unsatisfying.

You get the idea.

I still can’t get today’s Mets game on audio or video. The best I can get is MLB’s Gameday, a pitch-by-pitch written and schematic description of the game. This is about as un-en fuego as it gets. Oh well, it’s better than nothing.

I stepped away from the computer for a while. I couldn’t reach MLB tech support before the game and no new information was being posted in the forums I’ve been monitoring for help. It was either get away from the computer for a while or have a seizure, so I decided to not have the seizure.

I finally got through to MLB tech support. The opening message states “we are currently experiencing multiple site issues,” i.e., things are really screwed up. Right, tell me something I don’t already know. I reached a tech in the hopes of getting some new information, but she was unable to help. It would have been easy to yell at her, but it’s not her fault. The systems engineers and administrators messed this up and the tech support people have been left to twist slowly, slowly in the wind. At least the woman I spoke with today didn’t try to BS me, like two of the guys I spoke with this past weekend.

The good news is that the second time through the order the Mets started to pound the Marlins starter. Six runs in the top of the 4th. But then we gave two runs back in the bottom of the inning.

Go, team!

Christmas Cancelled — Film at 11

Oh wait. No film! No audio, either! Because mlb.tv has screwed up.

For some idiotic reason mlb.tv decided to roll out a new media player system over the weekend and I haven’t been able to access any games since Saturday. They had all spring training to test out the new system and now here it is, Opening Day (the real Opening Day), and I and many others are currently unable to watch our teams. Man, this feels like Christmas has been cancelled.

Holding out hope here that the techies at mlb.tv will fix whatever it is that needs fixing in time for today’s games — especially the Mets game (4.10pm ET versus the Fish in Miami). Introducing a new, untested system on Saturday, when MLB made three spring training games available for free to all, was a real stroke of stupidity. It surely made a good first impression on potential customers who were unable to watch the games. Way to go. Bud Selig makes $14 million a year. Can’t he afford to hire some people with brains over at mlb.tv?

At any rate, I’ll try to keep my seething under control. I’m torn between seething and crying. But watching this makes me feel better: