Can you Hear me now iHeart Radio!
Every fall, when motor racing’s primarily over
and I’m looking for other sporting events for “entertainment’s” value. I get
sucked into the never ending, nauseating iHeart Radio vortex, which instantly
leaves me fuming!
Believe it was a year ago when I painfully
tried tuning into a Sounders FC playoffs match. Pulling up the requisite radio
channel on Ye Intrawoods’, (internet) only to be told repeatedly. Thanks for
tuning in but you’re not allowed to listen to Play by Play radio. Check the iHeart
Radio App if you feel you’ve reached this in error, WTF?
As I’d run into this same Buzz Joy Killer one
year earlier when foolishly trying to listen to a Seahawks playoff game, Sigh!
Why are you precluding me from listening, you Bastardoes!
Now here’s the rub. Even though I got the first
match’s start time wrong. Tuning in at 7PM Pacific, for the start of the second
Half. Game
1 of the Sounders FC vs. Minnesota Loons came
piping in crystal clear with decent sound via Seattle’s KJR Radio 950AM. Which
unfortunately Seattle lost 3-2 in PK’s, ergo Penalty Kick Shootout at Allianz
Stadium.
Hmm, I still remember visiting the local
Allianz insurance office in Traben-Trarbach, when visiting Germany in 2002. When they sponsored the
Williams BMW Formula 1 team. Having noticed a poster in the window. The man in
the office was quite confused over why we Americans would want a poster or were
so excited about it? Before He ended up giving us three Allianz F1 posters; two
of Ralf Schumacher, and one of Juan Pablo Montoya. As the blue and white Team Willy’
Cars were quite Sharp lookin’, but I digress…
So I waited a week for the second match of the
first round between Seattle and Minnesota at Lumen Field. And naturally was
Cornfuzed’ and ultimately Peeved over the Intrawoods’ telling me that I
couldn’t listen to the Play by Play in my area on the iHeart mobile App. But
I’m trying to listen to the game on my Desktop Confuzer you stupid iHeart
Radio!
This was after I’d tuned in to KJR 950AM and
listened to what seemed like five Freakin’ minutes of commercials before
returning to some College football weekly review program or some other El
Stupidio Stick ‘n Ball sports show nonsense. Before the Sounders FC pregame
banter should have begun.
Strangely, the game was being aired on (Fox
Sports) FS1, so I turned it on and listened to two very annoying sounding
voices for the end of the pregame prattle. Hoping they’d be replaced by
somebody else to no avail.
After Seattle scored first to go ahead One-Nil
in the eighth minute and I’d gotten
tired of the announcers. I stupidly spent some twenty-plus minutes searching
the Internets’ for another way to listen to the Sounders FC radio announcers
instead. With the annoying you still cannot listen to this loop announcement
telling me to visit the iHeart Help webpage which I did.
But every way I tried searching for
Info kept coming up with the same answer. About
why I couldn’t listen Advertisement Free to the program. But I’m not trying to
do that you Bloody Wankers!
So I tried going to Tune in Radio instead, but
got the same you cannot listen to our program loop announcement. As Gory Hell!
I’m in Freaking BumFiddle’ Oregon! So why are you blocking me from listening to
a sporting event being played in Warshington’, Buggers!
Thus, when I resigned myself to “watching”, Err
listening to the match back on FS1. I tuned back in as Minnesota scored a
second, sloppy goal to tighten the score to 3-2 at the end of the first half!
Before Seattle sealed the Dealio’ with a late, fourth goal to win 4-2 and
extend the series Game 3 at Minnesota.
Naturally, being at the frozen tundra of
Allianz Stadium in Minny HaHa! I was able to once again listen to the majority
of the pregame banter on Seattle’s KJR 950AM, via Zed Intrawoods’. Before
listening to the entire, Whale’, almost entire match on my Confuzer, Riddle me
that!
The game started off brilliantly, with Seattle
stunning Minnesota Two-Nil inside the first 10 minutes! Before the Sounders let
down on a Free-kick for the score to be 2-1 at Halftime. Although one of the
Loons players received a Red card for a Head-bunt, meaning Minnesota would be a
man down the rest of the match.
Yet inexplicably, Seattle let Minnesota score
two unanswered goals, after Danny Musovski? Or somebody else had planked
another shot off of the Loons “12th Man”, the Crossbar!
Yet after late game substitutions, Seattle
scored again to knot the match at 3-3 in the game’s 88th minute. To which I
immediately said to my speakers, its gonna go to PK’s…
Interestingly, Seattle subbed in back-up
Goalkeeper Andrew Thomas, as part of those late substitutions. As Thomas is 12
years younger then No. 1 Keeper’ Stefan Frei.
And as one of the radio announcers marveled.
You cannot make this stuff up! Since after Thomas had lunged the correct
direction when the Loons first penalty kick missed wide right. Thomas somehow
injured His hand! With speculation suggesting a dislocated finger?
As Seattle’s trainers instantly taped up His
injured Hand. Yet during this lull, and the Sounders FC Albert Rusnak making
Seattle’s first PK. The pregame announcer broke in to alert us, that if PK’s
went more than ten minutes, we’d need to “seamlessly” switch over to the
Sounders FC Streaming Channel, Say What?
Next, Jordan Morris hit the Crossbar, Seattle’s
third time in the two Penalty Kicks
Shootout (to that point) that the Rave Green’s shots had errantly hit the
crossbar, Shite!
And right after the Sounders third shot calmly
into the back of the net, much to Minnesota Goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair’s
chagrin. The speakers said 15 seconds until Kraken. Going directly into the
Seattle Kraken’s pregame show Motha Fokkers
As I just laughed in outrage, and shook my head
as I got up dejectedly from my Confuzer! Before sitting back down again after
cancelling the Kraken Blather. And then tried briefly to find said streaming
channel before giving up, without knowing the outcome of the match,
Unbelievable!
So I guess I’m not shocked over the Kraken
knocking the sounders off the air. But what I don’t understand, is why would
you purposely keep Fans living in another state from listening to games being
played in Seattle?
Its not like I was asking to listen commercial
free you dolts! But I just cannot figure out why you’d want to prevent Fans
from listening to a broadcast? Making me somewhat hope that Seattle lost and I
wouldn’t have to endure any more of this Bullshit! Not finding out the results
for another four hours…
Oh yeah, when I tried going directly to iHeart
radio’s website. My screen reader “Zoey the Princess Warrior read out grid with one column and 15 rows. But
naturally they were all graphics Jackarses! Meaning once again, my screen
reader couldn’t read me anything…
Could we please knock this Shit off of being
lazy and using graphics which are not screen reader friendly for those of us
without vision! Being just one more reason I Hate iHeart Radio!
Knock this Shit Off you Website Developers!
Can you Hear me RACER!
