MLB '24 Postseason thread

It feels like X days after the final series gets a little wonky. If you want a minimum of three (which of what they’re doing because Yankees-Guardians Game 7 would hand been tonight), you’d start against MNF or you go four to avoid staying opposite the NFL, you’d start against college football for Game 1.

 

With the extra round, it’s harder with everyone ending on a Sunday. If the Wild Card was five or the DS was 7, you’d force the playoffs well into November, but you can better line it up to open on a Tuesday.

 

America just no longer watching TV on Friday nights is one of the strangest shifts in behavior of my lifetime.

 

I blame Millennials going to college. We grew up on TGIF but then drinking beer on a Friday after classes became more important. Then we got jobs and … beer stayed important.

 

If both series had ended by Saturday, the World Series would have started tonight. The Mets forcing game 6 messed that up.

 

I remember thinking it was ridiculous that “Friday Night Lights” was shown on Fridays. Nobody who wanted to watch that show would be home on Friday night.

 

I would read the hell out of a magazine article about the death of Friday night television.

I’d like to know if sitcom ratings cratered first or the overwhelming success of TV news magazine shows like Dateline and 20/20 came first. My completely neophyte theory would be that 20/20 and Dateline got great ratings, was cheaper to produce and then once 18-49 realized Friday night was being programmed for old people, punted on watching that night forever.

Or….beer.
At least in my household it was the opposite. We stayed home on Fridays and Saturday night was the night we didn’t watch television. Sports moving to Saturday night changed that.

 

Some really respected TV critics have the opinion it killed the show’s original run on NBC in the cradle. I know I didn’t start watching until it went to DirecTV.

 

And who wants to watch pretend high school football when there's real high school football to see?

 

The games I covered never had Minka Kelly and Adrianne Palicki close-ups.

 

Not counting probably seeing Laci Peterson as a high school cheerleader (the school she attended was in the same league as the one I covered), closest brush with fame was a track runner at the school I covered was one of the "Girls of the Big West."