Ok. I decided I was gonna get satellite radio a while back. Right now I spend about an hour a day on average in the car, and when I switch to day shift, I’ll spend close to 3 hours a day in the car. Then there’s the weekends when I do a good bit of driving. I’m tired of having nothing but commercials on, and when there is music on, I want to find new stuff to listen to, not the same 15 songs over and over again. So when I heard Howard Stern was going to Sirius, that sealed the deal for me. Right before Howard went, January 1st, 2006, I’d sign up. He’s all I listen to in the morning anyway. XM has Opie & Anthony, who I never listened to, but I heard they were great. They were the shock jocks who got thrown off the air a couple years back for being way worse than Stern was. A lot of comedians I like are friends with them, so I’d probably like them also. But now I find out that XM radio has an MLB package. I would get every Phillies game… period. They have better sports programming in general. They have ESPN Radio, ESPN News, Fox Sports, Sporting News and hey, even a Big Ten station. Sirius gets NFL, NBA, NHL and college bball. But then I guess I can’t, and probably won’t listen to sports news all the time. I watch that, so I shouldn’t decide past the MLB or NFL stuff. But the Phillies games; that’s golden. Both brands have the same stations music wise, a bunch of Rock stations spanning all decades, and a bunch of Rap and R&B; stations. Sirius on the other hand has Shade 45 which is Eminem’s station. Em just got G-Unit in on programming, so that station should be really good. I have heard the sound quality of Sirius is slightly better than XM, but they’re both digital so it can’t be that much better. Then they both cost the same, by the month as well as the year. I do think my car is already set up to receive XM so I’d just have to sign up. With Sirius, I’d have to go buy a receiver for a few hundred bucks. But I’d probably do that in the end with XM so I could listen in more places than my car. I don’t want to be chained down. In then end, I’ll probably go with Sirius, but it’s no longer a no brainer like I thought it was. Whatever I get, I can’t wait. Free radio sucks.

I’m currently watching: The Daily Show