I see where the brilliant minds that run baseball decided to start their only playoff game tonight at 8:30 Eastern, with both teams from the Eastern Time Zone. The better the game, the more likely to hold interest late. It's now almost 1:00 AM in the east. The game is going into extra innings, tied 6-6.
I'm not one of these people who thinks "it's all about the kids." When people bring up the kids, it's almost never about the kids. It's about the adults. And asking even adults to stick around until 11:30 for a normal-length game is asking them to wake up on the sofa with an infomercial running, bearily reaching for the remote to click to ESPN News to see who run before stumbling off to bed.
A full stadium, by the way, means less than nothing. Those people spent hundreds of dollars on those tickets. You think they're going to leave?
There may only be one October, but this scheduling is designed for people to say, "Wake me up when it's November."