Baseball LCS ratings down! The world is coming to an end!

Those of us who enjoy it really don't care, oop. Not sure why that's such a hard concept to grasp. Baseball is healthy and doing just fine. Yeah, it's not close to the level of the NFL, but who cares?

 

Is Friday a bad night to have Game 7, ratings wise? Or is it better to plan your TV dates around Game 6, which is more likely to be the clinching game, as recent history suggests?

 

Well game 7 was originally supposed to be last night, but there was a postponement.

 

OK. For some reason, I was thinking that that only eliminated a travel day. But it was Game 6 that was postponed, not Game 5.

So I guess the question stands: Is it actually better to plan for Game 6 to be on the big TV night, since series don't go 7 too frequently?

 

Where prep football is king, Game 7 being on a Friday night is a disaster. But that probably makes up 2 percent of Fox's viewers, so I doubt they care.

Having to lay out a sports page kind of kills my pipe dream of DVRing the game and not letting anyone tell me who won.

It always seemed like Game 7s were played on Sunday nights in the 1990s and 2000s. I know 1997 and 2001 were Sunday night affairs. (Edit) As was Angels-Giants.

 

Ha, not this year it doesn't. More like 50 percent. Not like you can plan for the Rangers or Astros being there.

 

Everything could be better. Enjoy something for what it is. The game is great.

 

Then almost 90 percent of the country missed out on something special. I'll say this not as a St. Louis fan, but as a baseball fan. Last night's Game 6 started out sloppy but turned into one of the best games I've ever seen. It ranks right up there with Carlton Fisk and 1975, with Bill Buckner and 1986, with Kirby Puckett and 1991 and with Joe Carter and 1993. (Don't believe me? Read most national columnists. They'll say a variation on the same thing.)

I have to wonder if NBC having postseason baseball would work. It might solve some anemic ratings problems in October and you can't doubt for one second Bob Costas (assuming he does the games) wouldn't sell baseball as a sport he loves and you should too.

 

The powers that be in baseball should. I'm sure they do, they just aren't willing to do what is necessary to improve things.

And the flaw in your point is you assume I don't enjoy it. It is possible to enjoy the game and still want it to be better at the same time. At least for some of us.

 

If only MLB was as smart as OOP.

 

Nice attempt to misrepresent my point. Now try to follow.

I never said I was smarter, just that I would like to see the overall health of the game put first, but the owners are more concerned with their individual interests. The big-market owners want things exactly as they are so they can keep their financial advantage and the small market owners know they can at least make money even if they can't compete on an even playing field because there is no salary floor.

Remember, a major reason the NFL made it to where it is was because Mara was willing to put the league first, something nobody in the Steinbrenner family would ever do.