Television exposure, MLB wants every game to be a national game. I really wish they'd do them all in the afternoon/primetime during the week, both ALDS on 1 channel and both NLDS on another.
Yeah, I never understood that. What good is the national exposure if 90% of your audience is working or in school. Even with 2 national games, being in prime time would seem to get more eyeballs.
Have more bad news for you then: Game 4 (if necessary) is scheduled for Monday at 12:07pm The ALDS series are getting no love from the national media.
Not sure if someone had posted our current players stats vs Volquez: Spoiler I'll be putting colby jack on my burger today
Having New York, LA, Chicago along with the geographically huge fanbase of the Cards in the playoffs pretty much guaranteed that. Even with Dallas, Houston and Toronto being huge cities, they're just not the baseball media markets those others are.
KC disrespected the Stros! Not sure if anyone saw this during the game. When the camera focused on the player roster board, it said KC Royals vs NY Yankees! Can someone that has DVR'ed the game look for this and tweet it out to fire out the Stros?
Already been done, it was posted somewhere in this thread. Whoever wrote it out has some seriously pretty penmanship. http://www.sbnation.com/2015/10/8/9...s-lineup-card-houston-astros-new-york-yankess
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hinch said Marisnick at 100 percent better option than Gomez less than 100. Says he wants to go with hot hand, too.</p>— Brian McTaggart ⚾️ (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/652526148052758528">October 9, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I've heard him much worse in some past interviews compared to last night. Pro athletes have been able to overcome stutters in the past. I think I read somewhere that Bill Walton used to have a horrible stutter, but you'd never know it if you ever listened to one of his NBA broadcasts(most fans wanted him to STOP talking). Ron Harper is another pro athlete who had a bad stutter in postgame interviews.
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I missed most of the Astros - Braves series in the 90's due to the 3pm start times. So Frustrating. I think baseball got this wrong for a long time. The NCAA does just fine with multiple games at the same time. It creates drama.
I was in college at the time, so I was lucky enough to see those games. Well, unlucky if you factor in the results which were usually Astros losses. The problem is we have 4 games today and MLB obviously doesn't want any of them overlapping. So we're stuck with two of them having to start in the late morning and mid afternoon. Unfortunately they decided to stick the Texas teams in those timeslots.
They also do just fine having games during the day, during the work week.... not a great example. NBA playoffs would be more comparable, but unlike baseball... teams don't play everyday (hence why the NBA playoffs get dragged on like no other, especially in the first round).
That's only the first 2 days when they have 16 games and only 4 venues to play them in. During the Sweet 16, when there are 4 games per day on weekdays, they put them simultaneously in the evenings and everyone loves it.
That was the only time I skipped class in high school to catch them on the radio in the hallways. Refuse to miss
