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There really isn’t anything more amusing than old people who have blogs. Santa Rosa Press-Democrat columnist Lowell Cohn has been struggling to convert his cable so he can watch the A’s, and luckily, it’s all chronicled on his newfangled blog thingymebobber.

First came outrage: You need me to buy some sort of box? “I’m told the converter box is free and I can get up to two of them. So what. I don’t want a converter box. I don’t want any trouble or fuss or muss.” That prompted commenter”J Canseco” to drop this gem: “Come inside Grandpa, there’s wolves out there.”

Then came petulance, as an A’s rep called Cohn and called him a baby. “So I called up Comcast and some guy said right everyone needs to convert. There was a technical reason. So I ordered the darn box. It still burns me up but I can’t blame the A’s. I have to blame life. I’m a big baby.”

And then the box arrived. It has wires and a remote! The horror!

Last night I opened the box and later my wife told me I uttered six oh my Gods. The thing requires attaching wires and there’s a remote control. Why is there a remote control? And there’s one of those booklets you must read before installing and you have to call an 800 number to get the whole thing activated — it’s like a credit card that way.

And you wonder why I’m anti the converter box. I’m planning on trying to set it up tonight along with the 3 adapters — oh my God. But I’m not confident. I think Billy Beane himself should come over and do it for me. I’d give him a bottle of wine in exchange for the technical assistance.

We would pay big money to see that: Billy Beane (Brad Pitt?) setting up Lowell Cohn’s cable box. Moneyball indeed.

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By Peter on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 11:59 am.
Tags: Oakland A's