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Cut the cable?

I guess I'm too old for new tricks. I DESPISE fishing around for content. I have Amazon Prime, Netflix, and (I think) Hulu*. I also have cable. I find myself watching baseball via the MLB website, and quickly checking out the cable guide and picking something to watch that is "already on".

I tried searching through the streaming stuff and it drove me nuts.

*I have "sharing" (read stealing) deals with several friends. I give them my MLB or Amazon login and they give me one of theirs. As such, I have about half a dozen streaming services..... and despise all of them.

My kids watch Boss Baby on (I think) Netflix and the Kung Fu Panda series on (I think) Amazon.

My wife DVRs all the talent shows and Grey's Anatomy** on cable.

**THE most depressing show ever on TV.

All that being said, I rarely have time for just sitting and watching TV anyway. I have baseball on most evenings and "swing by" to get the score from time to time. And I tend to watch band/artist documentaries while I work out. That's about it.

That's the thing I like about not using cable and using streaming services instead (we have Amazon and Hulu). I don't have to fish around for content or sit around watching TV.
I know what I want to watch, so I log in and watch it when I want to. Then I'm done.

-Mike