Actually, i'm thinking of canceling my cable TV and just ordering CBS for $9.99 a month and watching things on Netflix and Amazon prime. That should do it! And the miserable news, I can't take it. I watch just enough to be informed.

Yes

You have to understand it's the Pirates. I can only take so many losses...:cry:

Maybe that's why Pirates wear an eye patch. So they only see half the losses.

I think they only see half the baseball. (I shouldn't say that... they just won their 11th straight game. Maybe there's Wild Card hope.):pray:

Directv and Youtube tv let you record and fast forward through commercials. I find when I watch live tv I fall asleep when commercials come on. Must be a better use of my time. Scotch helps.

More than half the time the other channel is also in a commercial.

Don't blame the networks. They get paid the same money for good commercials as they get for the bad ones, so they play them all. Blame Liberty Mutual, Geico and dozens of drug companies for the repetitious, dreadful commercials. The worst is Liberty Mutual's "You named him Brad" commercial, which I've personally seen at least one thousand times. Thankfully, I haven't seen it in a few months, so I'm hoping (praying) that they retired it.

I always mute commercials but I record many shows so I can play a 30 minute one in 15 - 20 minutes rather than waste part of my life waiting for commercials to end.

Way back in the early 1970's I ran wires from the TV's speakers under the carpet to a switch in a box within reach of my easy chair so I could turn off the sound during commercials. It was the Model T of mute buttons.

Ever notice commercials are broadcast louder than shows and with better fidelity?