Do I Really Need Cable?

I'm getting to the point where I am serious contemplating canceling our cable TV service. It's just getting harder and harder for me to justify the expense of it every month. Our cable bill is wildly out of proportion to the amount of entertainment we get from it.

I've been debating about bailing on the two network shows that I watch anyway. The other two shows that I have been following that I really am excited about are The Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica. I already watch The Sopranos on DVD, because we don't have HBO. And there is no reason that I couldn't watch Battlestar Galactica the same way.

I used to justify the cable bill with the sports that I watched. But over the past year, I really haven't watched any. The basketball team of the city that I live in is in the finals, and I have yet to see a minute of any of the post-season. I used to be way into the NHL (before they crappified the way overtime was run), but I didn't watch any of that this year, either. I saw about an hour of the Federer vs. Nadal French Open final. And I watch every Formula One race -- but is that really enough?

TV shows have been pissing me off. NBC has been doing weird things with the scheduling of their shows (running them 1 or however minutes over the hour), so I'm glad that they are down in 4th place now. You deserve it, you assholes. And every show is so formulaic or contrived.