World Series games to start at 8 pm!

[mustangj17]

MLB, Fox turn back World Series clock with earlier start times

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2009-05-18-mlb-fox-world-series-earlier-games_N.htm


About time.

 

[andyouare?]

A slight improvement. Maybe I'll actually be in bed before midnight. Maybe.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Games will still finish too late for East Coast deadlines thanx to douchebag newspaper-business-side executives who post deadlines so early that we can't even get all the high school football games in.

 

[expendable]

Games will still finish too late for East Coast deadlines thanx to douchebag newspaper-business-side executives who post deadlines so early that we can't even get all the high school football games in.

Wait. Newspapers cover high school games? When did that start happening? [crossthread]

 

[mustangj17]

Games will still finish too late for East Coast deadlines thanx to douchebag newspaper-business-side executives who post deadlines so early that we can't even get all the high school football games in.

Wait. Newspapers cover high school games? When did that start happening? [crossthread]

Awesome!

 

[slappy4428]

Game start or broadcast start? I'll believe it when it happens.

 

[CitizenTino]

Broadcasts to start at 7:30, games to begin no later than 7:57 (except on Sundays, because of NFL conflicts).

I like the fact that they are at least considering Saturday afternoon World Series games. Won't happen this year, probably won't happen period, but it's at least encouraging that they're looking into it.

There's never been a World Series day game played in my lifetime. That seems slightly ridiculous.

 

[poindexter]

Games will still finish too late for East Coast deadlines thanx to douchebag newspaper-business-side executives who post deadlines so early that we can't even get all the high school football games in.

Wait. Newspapers cover high school games? When did that start happening? [crossthread]

Where ya been? Its been happening for maybe the last 20 years!

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Broadcasts to start at 7:30, games to begin no later than 7:57 (except on Sundays, because of NFL conflicts).

I like the fact that they are at least considering Saturday afternoon World Series games. Won't happen this year, probably won't happen period, but it's at least encouraging that they're looking into it.

There's never been a World Series day game played in my lifetime. That seems slightly ridiculous.

Jesus Christ how old are you!?
They played day games in 1987 (Game 6) and 1984 (Game 5 and possibly Game 4).

Man I am getting old.

 

[Trey Beamon]

8 p.m. start? How about an afternoon game or 6 p.m. start?

Way to be bold, FOX. ::)

 

[Football_Bat]

Somebody posted on an earlier thread that night games, back when night games were new, actually started at night, not sundown or twilight or dusk. Like 9:30 p.m. local time.

Thus, Vander Meer's second no-no (first night game at Ebbets) was relegated to the next day's AMs, although the PMs (of which there were many more than today) got it.

 

[poindexter]

Somebody posted on an earlier thread that night games, back when night games were new, actually started at night, not sundown or twilight or dusk. Like 9:30 p.m. local time.

I'm having a hard time digesting that regularly scheduled games (not makeup games/DH's ect) started at 9:30 p.m.

8:00 p.m.? Definitely.

9:30 p.m.? Any link?

 

[CitizenTino]

Broadcasts to start at 7:30, games to begin no later than 7:57 (except on Sundays, because of NFL conflicts).

I like the fact that they are at least considering Saturday afternoon World Series games. Won't happen this year, probably won't happen period, but it's at least encouraging that they're looking into it.

There's never been a World Series day game played in my lifetime. That seems slightly ridiculous.

Jesus Christ how old are you!?
They played day games in 1987 (Game 6) and 1984 (Game 5 and possibly Game 4).

Man I am getting old.

Well, I stand corrected then. I thought the last World Series day game was in the late '70s. I'm 27, so yes, those games you mentioned would've happened in my lifetime, although both were before I was old enough to really get into sports.

 

[Football_Bat]

Somebody posted on an earlier thread that night games, back when night games were new, actually started at night, not sundown or twilight or dusk. Like 9:30 p.m. local time.

I'm having a hard time digesting that regularly scheduled games (not makeup games/DH's ect) started at 9:30 p.m.

8:00 p.m.? Definitely.

9:30 p.m.? Any link?

I palm that responsibility off on slappy. :)

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/57490/

ADD: I was off by 15 minutes, but better too early than too late.

 

[kingcreole]

Broadcasts to start at 7:30, games to begin no later than 7:57 (except on Sundays, because of NFL conflicts).

I like the fact that they are at least considering Saturday afternoon World Series games. Won't happen this year, probably won't happen period, but it's at least encouraging that they're looking into it.

There's never been a World Series day game played in my lifetime. That seems slightly ridiculous.

Jesus Christ how old are you!?
They played day games in 1987 (Game 6) and 1984 (Game 5 and possibly Game 4).

Man I am getting old.

If I'm not mistaken, the 1985 Series was the first with all night games.

 

[crimsonace]

That's not a huge surprise.

Not sure about baseball, but I know the local minor-league hockey team in Indy had 8:30 p.m. local starts for all of its games in the 1940s. And most were played on Sunday and Thursday nights. The American Association baseball team got lights in 1928 (the original standards are still standing, although the park has been abandoned for 14 years), so it likely had similar nighttime starts.

The big difference today is, due to the impact of TV, the games stretch out much longer. A WS game lasts 3:30-4:00 because of the insanely long commercial breaks between innings.

One could expect, in 1938, to go to a 9:15 p.m. local start baseball game and still be on the road by 11:15 or 11:30. Today, if a game starts at 9:00 and it's a playoff game, you're shooting for 12:30 or 1:00.

 

[forever_town]

They should start all postseason games at 7:05 p.m. Eastern time.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

They should start all postseason games at 7:05 p.m. Eastern time.

Everything's a tradeoff, though. If you do that the games is nearly over before you get into prime time on the west coast. People would be getting home from work in time for the 9th inning. It seems more reasonable to make part of your audience stay up late instead of having a chunk of your audience that misses most of the game.

 

[deskslave]

They should start all postseason games at 7:05 p.m. Eastern time.

Everything's a tradeoff, though. If you do that the games is nearly over before you get into prime time on the west coast. People would be getting home from work in time for the 9th inning. It seems more reasonable to make part of your audience stay up late instead of having a chunk of your audience that misses most of the game.

But if you've lived in any other time zone, you know that they don't give a ****.

 

[expendable]

It will be funny if both the Angels and Dodgers make the World Series.