For the second week in a row, I will not be able to watch this week's San Diego Chargers preseason game live on my big, beautiful, newly-purchased HDTV because CBS 8, which is a free channel that any old idiot can get with an antenna, has demanded that Directv pay a little more to carry their channel than the local affiliates for NBC and ABC.
I hate this. It's the worst. I am part of a household with an NFL fan that doesn't root for the local team, which means I am stuck with Directv. It also means that I have a better chance of watching a team from the other side of the country than the one that resides in San Diego.