Kevin Kaduk over at the Big League Stew was apoplectic that the Rockies/Phillies game started so late.
Yep, the only way I knew the Phillies had taken a 2-1 series lead was by looking through contact-dried eyes at my phone when a blaring commercial on TBS woke me back up at 4.
Should I — as someone who loves baseball and gets paid to follow it — have downed a Red Bull or started a cocaine habit to stay up and watch the game? Some people might say yes.
But while those “some people” apparently work for Major League Baseball, I’m going to stand by my original thought that scheduling a playoff baseball game involving an East Coast team and Denver night-time temperatures in the low 30s for a start time of 10:07 p.m. ET ranks as the silliest of all of baseball’s all-time silly decisions.
I know that it’s not cool to defend Major League Baseball or TBS or any of “the suits, maaaan”, but what other options did they have for a makeup game?
Why can’t they air two games at the same time? First of all, just dismiss that notion. TBS paid heavy rights fees for the right to air ALL of the Division Series games. Why would they want to dilute their product?
Why not air it during the 2:30 slot that was previously held for the (if necessary) Dodgers/Cardinals Game 4? BECAUSE THE BRONCOS WERE PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME! MLB and TBS aren’t dumb. They know that football is America’s game and the ratings juggernaut. They know that many Rockies ticketholders are probably Broncos ticketholders as well, and those peeps aren’t gonna pass on a chance to see their undefeated football team take on an organization that cheated their way to 3 Super Bowl titles in the last 8 years. Especially considering how moribund the Broncos have been for the better part of a decade. A late start gives those Broncos fans a chance to go to the game at Invesco, relax a little bit, and then go to the game at Coors.
Finally, why not air it during primetime over the Yankees? Get real. No one gives a shit about the Phillies or the Rockies.
A quick rant on Sunday night’s Phillies-Rockies late start time (Big League Stew)
they had no problem showing golf up against the broncos. then again, golf gets more viewers than baseball so…
Yeah, the President Cup almost beat Cops on Saturday night. Something to hang your hat on right thurr.
Cops (the show) > Golf
Amen Clown, it was a Game 3 anyway that wasn’t deciding anything, big deal.
But fuck TBS for never working properly for me.
please…of COURSE cops > golf.
cops > pretty much everything on tv.
I liked that it it was very late, I wasn’t subjected to watching since I was hungover and tired after the Giants game. Thank you Allan H. (Bud) Selig for thinking of me.
I don’t understand all the people bitching. This was never even up for debate. The late start time was the only option.
They could have started the game at 10AM and then stopped it for the Broncos game and then continued it..that would have made everyone happy
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They’re 82-51 this decade with 1 (last year) sub-.500 season. I’m willing to bet that record is Top-10 in the league.
“Get real. No one gives a shit about the Phillies or the Rockies.”
Fuck you, that’s no way to treat the World Fucking Champions.
/Tired as hell, thank god Lidge didn’t blow it.