I didn't have a chance to see much baseball this year. I was otherwise occupied for most of the year. But usually, there's just nothing like post-season baseball.
This year, there wasn't much point. Aside from the Red Sox-Rays Game 7, there was almost no drama. And baseball's ownership is rapidly relegatinig its sport's biggest moments to irrelevance, obscurity, and ridicule. Their biggest games are virtually unwatchable - taking place too late in the day and too late at night.
In the past few years, we have seen a tied All-Star Game, the first postponed game in World Series history, and the last World Series Game 7 was 6 years ago, the longest drought of a decisive winner-take-all game since 1913-1923. The games start late by Mountain time standards. I had to think - hard - to remember who the Phillies beat in the divisional playoffs. And they re-scheduled the World Series so a potential Game 7 wouldn't have to go up against a regular season NFL game on a Sunday night.
If they don't shorten the schedule and shorten the games, they're going to turn MLB into the NHL, and it'll happen sooner than we think.
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I remember as a kid sneaking a transistor radio into class because the playoff and World Series games were during the day.
Some of our teachers would let us listen while we did our schoolwork, but others would not.
I still think radio is the best way to take in a ballgame. It was good to see the Rays finally make it. It's too bad the games were so late in the evening (and the year!) for many people to see them.
Posted by: Randy Ketner | November 2, 2008 9:35 AM