Gimme my PTI

ESPN's Pardon the Interruption is quickly becoming my favorite TV show. When I first started watching I was lukewarm, but I've slowly fallen in love with the show's format, where the two hosts, Kornheiser and Wilbon, move from topic to topic with no time for long-winded diatribes. The key is that all of their arguments are concise and well-reasoned, so that it's informative even if they make statements that I disagree with. A lot of TV and radio commentators go for low blows and easy laughs, but Kornheiser and Wilbon actually manage to give competent insight in an entertaining way.

Now my biggest problem is that I rarely get to see the damn show! It airs at 2:30pm out here and for a while earlier this year, ESPN2 would consistently rerun the show every night at a more reasonable hour. But ever since the NHL and NBA playoffs started, ESPN2's primetime schedules are completely erratic, meaning PTI comes on at 8:30 one night, 11:30 the next night and then not at all the night after that. Why can't they trim down Baseball Tonight (which essentially runs the same highlights as Sportscenter these days) to half an hour and then run PTI every night? Or just tack the show on to the end of Sportscenter (along with the new nightly edition of Outside the Lines). If things don't change, I'm gonna have to start setting my VCR to record it every afternoon. Drastic measures are necessary when a sports junkie like me needs his fix.