My goals for Alcohol this year

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As requested in the other thread...


My goals for alcohol this year are adjusting slightly. Last year I got ripped before every home game, drank some during the games, and was the essential perpetrator of one "stadium incident." Financial situations have changed my ticket situation, to where I had to give up my 2nd row season tickets, and I'm not as likely to be able to make every home game. So in lieu of that, I'm going to investigate getting satellite radio and listening to the games on my boat, at anchor, in St Andrews Bay.

This should allow for a much more profoundly comfortable drinking environment, one where I'm considerably less harm to myself and those around me, and one where I can always take a jump in the bay if I get too aggravated or frustrated or generally pissy at our team screwing up or the refs handing UGA another victory.


I find that listening to Wes call the games is just as good as watching them on TV. The question I need to know, is threefold:

1) Which satellite radio provider carries the ACC games?

2) Is it Wes's broadcast, or some chump?

3) What are you guys's Alcohol plans this year?


beej67,
alcoholic
 
:laugher: :laugher: :laugher:

That's what I'm talkin' about!
 
ACC games are on XM. You'll get the home announcer's calls if I remember correctly.
 
yep, it's on XM and gt1992 is correct that they use the home team's announcer. But when we play UNC, you really can't tell the difference. :laugher:
 
beej67 said:
Financial situations have changed my ticket situation, to where I had to give up my 2nd row season tickets...I'm going to investigate getting satellite radio and listening to the games on my boat, at anchor, in St Andrews Bay.
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"Financial situations"..."give up tickets"..."boat in St. Andrews Bay"....say wha? :laugher:
 
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We all have to have priorities. My relatively small (32') 1981 Pearson sloop is by all means no megayacht, but it stretches my budget, and when Radikovizch stretched it further (for which I do not blame him in the slightest, and I'm glad our athletic program is headed towards being in the black) I had to cut something out. When the new improved bill for the tix hit the same time as the bill for the bottom job, I picked the boat.

I will not lie, the potential to avoid another "stadium incident" did play a small part in the decision.

ACC games are on XM. You'll get the home announcer's calls if I remember correctly.
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What does XM cost monthly? Do they provide me with the radio and whatnot or do I have to buy it separate?
 
Is it possible to listen to 790 via Web for games? Or do they black them out?
 
beej67 said:
What does XM cost monthly? Do they provide me with the radio and whatnot or do I have to buy it separate?
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It's $12.99 per month for the first radio and $6.00 for each additional. The radios have to be purchased separately. I bouth one for my wife for $40 and ran all the cables in the car myself (not as bad as it sounds). The quality is worth the cost. There is no fuzziness as with FM (especially if you'll be on a boat away from an FM tower).
 
What does XM cost monthly? Do they provide me with the radio and whatnot or do I have to buy it separate?
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Depends on what plan you want to purchase. They break it out into month to month, yearly, etc. Longer the commitment you make, the cheaper it is. Think I pay like $11 or 12 a month?

You do have to purchase your own receiver to get the signal. Can get home kit, car kit, etc. Think they roughly cost <$100 or so. With the kit, it usually comes with a built in fm transmitter. That way if your boat does not have direct hookups, you can listen over fm signal...FM signal is fine (not as clear), but you just have to find a station with nothing else broadcast on it to interfere.
 
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mm42 said:
Is it possible to listen to 790 via Web for games? Or do they black them out?
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Yes, it's possible. If WREK still carries night games, then you're better off listening to their feed, less commercials and clearer sound. www.wrek.org

It's $12.99 per month for the first radio and $6.00 for each additional. The radios have to be purchased separately. I bouth one for my wife for $40 and ran all the cables in the car myself (not as bad as it sounds). The quality is worth the cost. There is no fuzziness as with FM (especially if you'll be on a boat away from an FM tower).
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Their website confuses me. If I buy this:

http://www.xmradio.com/sportscaster/index.xmc

Do I have to buy an antenna too? What other crap do I have to buy? Are they deep like a regular radio, or is it just a facecard looking thing I can mount easily? Will the thing in that link get all the channels, or just sports ones? Will the thing in that link broadcast an FM signal like the Ipod-to-radio-thingamajig so I don't have to wire it in?

I have full faith in my ability to wire DC 12 volt systems, but am unsure the scope of the technology and the other crap I might get duped into buying. 20 bucks sounds totally reasonable, though, if it comes with what I need. Hell, that's just one bottle of rum.

REMINDER: THE THREAD IS ALSO ABOUT BOOZE.
 
I have the one you listed, but it's for my car. It comes with an antenna. I bought a different one from Target though that adapts to an XM boombox that I use when I go camping or tailgating.
 
"Stadium incident" :hugelaugh:

Beej: All I'm going to say is that that was one hell of a throw! Were you a quarterback in high school or something? I also take it you were filled with beer too, which makes it even more amazing.
 
AllAmericanBuzz said:
I have the one you listed, but it's for my car. It comes with an antenna. I bought a different one from Target though that adapts to an XM boombox that I use when I go camping or tailgating.
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So does it just hang on your dashboard, or did you have to cut a hole for it to fit in, or what? What's the depth of the unit? I understand the antennas are exterior things you have to run a wire to, is that correct? Shouldn't be a problem, but I might have to run it a long way below decks.


TG: bourbon, not beer.
 
My goal for alcohol:

Stay one drink ahead of the wife (she can hold her liquor) while not dropping the baby.
 
it's not too big, I actually have it in my passenger cup holder at the moment. The antenna has a pretty long wire that attaches to the unit. I have it running from the unit underneath the floor mats through the back of my SUV onto the roof. It should be long enough for a boat I would think.
 
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