Ambient Devices (BBSB01) Provides line scores, standings, and schedules for professional baseball teCustomer Review: Out of the Park!
Great present for a baseball fan! It was easy to set up and keeps your favorite team front and center - even at work!
Customer Review: Disappointed
I purchased this product as a Father's Day present for my father-in-law. After it arrived I saw (much to my surprise) that you have to live within their network area to get data. There was no way to access the website they provided for map of coverage area. It took a lot of time to figure out how to contact Ambient. After mailing it to my f-in-l I got an e-mail back from Ambient telling me there is no coverage where he lives, which is surprising since it is an hour from Philadelphia. Now I have to deal with doing a long distance return.
I read in the Daily Mail before the season started that we are the least exciting team to watch in the whole league. I bluntly refuted this rude and unjustified judgment of our underlying quality and entertainment. (Obviously blinded by my pre-season optimism).
My reasoning however, and in all honesty, was born purely out of an innate and mutual understanding that teams like Wigan and Bolton were clearly more boring to watch than the mighty West Ham. Surely that was obvious to everyone.
It seems I was wrong.
The team that Curbishley has masterfully engineered out of a deep and thorough understanding of West Ham United footballing traditions, turns out to be a group of spineless, under performing individuals who have left me entering a new week (once again) feeling overwhelmingly embarrassed.
People might question why I can feel so strongly about this after just two games of the season. I guess in response I would say that the fact it is only two games in, gives me reason enough to feel so strongly. The players should be fit. They should be strong. They should be fighting for their places. They should be aspiring for a successful season. They shouldn't be putting in disgraceful, lackluster performances or looking like a team who haven't once played together all summer. Who haven't worked on tactics or indeed, fitness.
Man City looked sharper, looked more innovative, looked faster and generally looked better. And so did Wigan.
There was no difference whatsoever from the team that we willingly endured last season. Not even a new kit.
Contrary to popular belief however, there are some positives we can take away from the game...the fans. I am standing up and applauding (in between posting) while I write this. Last time I checked, it's not free to buy a ticket for a football match, and neither is it free to travel to one. Particularly one half way up the country. The fans who traveled were in full voice throughout and were the only people associated with West Ham who could walk away from Eastlands today with their heads held high.
If you didn't see the game or don't know the result, we lost 3-0, Mark Noble was sent off in the first half for two (stupid) bookable offences and we didn't have a single shot until well over and hour of the game was played. (On the sending off note, we had the same amount of players as City until Noble was sent off, and for the last ten minutes of play because they had to take a player off injured).
Not a single shot. Not one. Nada. No shooting at all. No kicking of the ball towards the goal. "That's it son, kick it as hard as you can...well done! Take a run-up and have another go, you're doing really well"
We finally have a result that our performance deserves. There is not hiding behind injuries or lady luck after this one Curbs. No more false league positions and no more, "Look, we nearly got relegated last year. 10th is a big improvement on that...so you fans, stop being so fickle"
No passion, not organised, spineless.
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Carlis Soccer 2008 Fall