October 02, 2006
Scheduling Complaints
Jeff McArthur writes:
I was wondering if anyone except those of us on the West Coast have noticed that it will be impossible to see any playoff games for our teams this week. All games for Padres, A's, and Dodgers are either 10am or 1pm here. Yankees at 8pm every night and the Mets the other 8pm slot. People here in SD and up in the Bay Area are not so happy.
I'm a bit surprised by this. In the past, they've scheduled a west coast team for a 10 PM start. The networks go with a schedule that brings in the most money, although I would think that a 7 PM PDT start in San Diego would make more than a 4 PM EDT start. However, this schedule is great for those of us who work from home on the East Coast!
What I really don't like is what happened in the LCS last year. Fox showed both games at the same time, allowing you to only watch one. I like being able to see both in their entirety. Thank goodness for TIVO!
Posted by David Pinto at
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The games aren't even on TV - they're on ESPN. Major league baseball can't seem to figure out that 40% of households -- like mine -- watch ONLY BROADCAST TELEVISION. I'll see Tigers/Yankees on Tuesday - and LA/Mets on Thursday on FOX and THAT IS ALL - the rest I'll be listening to Gameday Audio on MLB.com.
Idiots.
Idiots? Frankly I'd rather they all be on cable. I happen to like some shows on Fox that are on hiatus until after the world series. If all games were on cable, I could still enjoy television shows AND the games.
60% of america has cable, by your statistic, and that's only going to go up. Join us young skywalker. Resistance is futile. It is inevitable.
That pisses me off, too, because it'll give MLB another reason to point to the Twins and A's and say, "See, nobody watches them." Well, most people *can't* watch them, when you put their first three games on between 10 AM-6 PM (granted, anything after the two-hour mark of Game Three falls on Friday night from 6 PM onwards, but that ain't exactly prime-tv-watching-time either) across the country. Is MLB's obligation to maximize TV revenue, or to give each game/team/series in the post-season a fair shake in the amount of time spent on-air? That's a question I think Bud Selig and the owners should be asking themselves, and they aren't, and it usually screws fans of teams aside from NY/LA/Boston/Chicago and maybe Atlanta (you can tell how *I* think they should answer it). The only thing I think might change that would be if the Yankees had a crappy record at night, and were stellar during the day. Then, I wouldn't be surprised to see them get some day games ;-)
I hope they don't screw up the LCS like last year, too.
Yeah, I have to say, it kind of stinks that I have to take time off work to watch the one series I really care about, Padres - Cardinals. It's no great comfort to me that the Yankees will be on when I get home; I'll be watching the previous night's Conan on TiVo instead.
Yeah. I really have no interest in watching Jeter and his buddies clutter up my television screen again this October, but having only watched Dodger games this year I am interested in getting my first look at a Tigers team that's actually good. I'm long been an Ivan Rodriguez fan, too.
However, this schedule is great for those of us who work from home on the East Coast!
And for those of us who follow baseball from 6 time-zones away... But I can see how it would piss off a good many fans in the US.