At least it wasn’t the end of Game 7.
Yet the crash of Google Fiber service across the Kansas City market at the start of the World Series Tuesday — blacking out Alcides Escobar’s thrilling in-the-park homer — chipped away at the fandom of the fiber optic Internet-and-TV service for at least a night.
The company responded with an apology and on Wednesday promised customer credits equal to the cost of two days of service.
“We’re sorry for the inconvenience,” Kelly Carnago, the Google Fiber manager for Kansas City, said in a statement released Wednesday night.