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The postseason schedulers have done a supremely horrible job this year.The ALDS was scheduled in such a way that each team only needed to carry three starting pitchers. So nobody was really playing the team that had plowed through the previous 162 games. They were only facing the top 3 guys. Ridiculous.
During the ALCS, there was an unexplained day off right in the middle. Instead of the old 2-3-2 format (which some people hate but makes perfect sense), they went 2-2-1-2 allowing an extra day to push everything back. Without that pointless interruption (and the even more perplexing change in the next paragraph), the baseball season would actually end in October. As it is, a 7-game World Series would end on November 1. I don't know much about meteorology, but I'm fairly sure that Novembers in Boston and Denver are not typically warm.
The World Series finally starts tonight, and with it comes the final change from previous years. This year, the Series begins on a Wednesday. So instead of the three middle games being played on a Fri/Sat/Sun, they will instead fall on a Sat/Sun/Mon. No big deal except for a couple of things. First, there is a sad scheduling conflict between Game 5 and Monday Night Football. I don't care, but plenty do. Second and worse, there is now a Monday game instead of a Friday game. No big deal on the west coast but plenty big on the east coast where games start at 8:30. In other words, instead of getting to stay up and watch an entire game on Friday night, many people will catch a few innings of Monday's game before heading to bed.
And Major League Baseball pays millions of dollars to try and figure out why people, especially kids, are losing interest in the great game.
Dumb. Really, really dumb.
posted by Thurman8er @ 8:45 AM
7 Comments:
If only big decision makers would appeal to those of us who have common sense, huh??
You're killin' me! ;)
Why? Why? What'd I do???
I'm just hoping the last line in your blog isn't connected with the title! (you're such a little brother...)
OK...the secret of 126 is......???
Wow...you know so much about the ins and outs of baseball! I was wondering why the teams may be playing in the snow this year. I'm still trying to understand why the batters (and pitchers?) take so long to do their thing - are they trying to double their air-time exposure? (STEP back, ADJUST the hat, the shirt, the pants, TAKE a few more swings, UNWRAP and WRAP the glove straps, WIPE their nose, SPIT three times, GO to the plate, WHOOPS, STEP back...only spit two times - you get the picture?) Seems to be a LOT of delays...now I know why watching baseball was a lot more fun when I was a kid!
Yeah, really dumb...
It could be worse. They could have had a really obscure team with players no one ever heard of it the finals and then they could get completely blown out of the first game by some ridiculous score.
That would be worse for TV ratings…
And that would be the Rockies, right?
Surely NOT the Angels...
It's always about TV ratings. Oh, the pitiful things "they're" doing to America's greatest pastime!
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