An Angry Open Letter to the Fine Folks Who Run Match Day Live
du Nord, October 23, 2010
Dear Friends at Match Day Live (Text Version Below), Dear Friends at Match Day Live,Hello? How are you? Enjoying my $40 dollars? I sure as hell hope you are because I’m not! For the last couple years as a poor college student, and now as a semi poor married man I’ve happily paid the ever expanding cost of your live service to watch my favorite team, the Kansas City Wizards play. I loved being able to know I could watch them reliably online even if the quality wasn’t great. I paid because even though, for free, I could go to my2p2.eu or justin.tv and usually find the game, coverage was spotty and looked even more pixilated than your rather pixilated service. So this year, when you charged me $40 dollars I shelled out because 1) I have a shitty TV and 2) It’s not in the budget to get regular cable (or extended, or FSC, or DirectTV). Excited for the 2nd or 3rd game of the season (I attended the 1st two), I turned on Match Day Live, but low and behold, all I could get was a black screen that said “Watch this gam