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Sports columnist Doug Bonham has a piece today in which he rails against Comcast cable for not allowing their Comcast Sports Net channel to be rebroadcast on DirectTV, his viewing platform of choice. He spends close to five hundred words describing not only his pain, but that of all Oregonians who either don't subscribe to Comcast or live outside of Comcast's reach, and therefore miss hot Blazers action on a regular basis. He goes so far as to call this situation a "crime."

So 500 words describing this horrible situation and then we get to this:

The sad thing is, this is all brought on by Comcast's greed. The only possible situation I can envision is Comcast overestimating their new channel's value, and the other television providers saying, "Screw that." It's not a "Comcast cable versus satellite" thing - I get Comcast Sports Net affiliates from Washington, D.C., Chicago and Boston here in Eugene - it's a "Comcast versus providers" thing.

And a "Comcast hates Trail Blazer fans" thing. All I want to do is watch my team, Comcast; stop screwing that up.

That's right, in a woeful misunderstanding of the law of supply and demand, Doug believes that Comcast must be overvaluing its product because Doug wants it so bad but can't have it. Unless he switches to Comcast. Or the satellite providers pony up more money.

Sweet jeebus, this is so stupid it has me defending both Comcast and greed.