2008 postseason schedule

oh, TBS.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp

HERE COME THE YANKEES

"It's a bloop single for Jeter, AND HERE COME THE NEW YORK YANKEES."

"Actually, Chip, that's Carlos Gomez, and he just bunted directly to Scott Kazmir, and the Twins are losing 12-0 in the top of the eighth."

Now with (some) start times.

The Wed-Fri-Sun scheduling for one series really isn't fucking funny anymore.

Fox had to premier the Simpsons before November somehow..

it premiered last night where were you

I've been putting my predictions on the other threads, but here's who I'll be rooting for: Cubs, Angels, Brewers, and (today) Twins. If Chi wins today, I'll be rooting for Angels; otherwise, Twins. Hoping for a Cubs WS title.

On the other hand, an all Chicago WS would be pretty cool.

Dodgers, Red Sox, Brewers, White Sox

Dodgers

Pulling most for the Brewers and Rays.

OK, wtf was I thinking. Yes, I'll be rooting for Rays over either Twins or Chisox, and a Cubs-Rays series. If that manages to happen, I'll be rooting for co-champions.

I just want one of these series to go 5, not 4 shweeps.

Sheehan points out the weirdness:

By the way, when did the Division Series start to suck? For all the excitement we had in the early days of its existence, the round has started to leave baseball fans with way too much time on their hands in the second week of October. We had three over the minimum 12 games this season, which is a marathon compared to the 13—just one over the minimum!—we saw last year. There hasn't been a Game Five in the Division Series since 2005, and there haven't been two in one year since 2003.

Also we haven't had a Game Six in the World Series since 2003.

Two games on Friday and Monday, one game on Saturday and Sunday...

football fear

Perrotto, BP:

With the Angels and Cubs making early exits, expect the cries to become louder for MLB to increase the length of the Division Series from five games to seven. However, commissioner Bud Selig shot down that idea this past weekend while attending the Brewers-Phillies NLDS games in his hometown of Milwaukee. "We're going to play until October 31," Selig said, referring to the scheduled date for a possible Game Seven of the World Series. "Next year, because we're starting a week later [because of the World Baseball Classic], we're going into early November, which I'm not thrilled about. I've said to the clubs at every [owners'] meeting, 'if you want to go to seven games then we've got to cut some games off the regular season.' There's never been a vote called. End of discussion."

(Regular season) double headers are out of the question?

And isn't football every fucking day of the week now?

btw, WS G7 this year would be 30th, not 31st.

As long as you make twice the revenue for 2 separate games, yes, regular-season doubleheaders are out of the question (ditto cutting sked from 162).

Sodding evening games. Screw you, rest of the world.

Selig hopes to shorten postseason by two or three days

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Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig hopes to shorten the postseason by two or three days next season by eliminating some off days.

MLB shifted the start of the World Series from Saturday to Wednesday beginning last year, adding four extra days off. Selig said he likes the Wednesday start but is concerned about weather next year, when the regular season doesn't start until April 5. World Series Game 7 would be on Nov. 5 if the current format is kept.

"We've got to look at trying to -- maybe not having so many off days and days when you have only one game," Selig said at Tropicana Field before Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday night.

Selig was pleased with the rating for the Series opener, a 3-2 win by the Philadelphia Phillies over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night. The game earned a 9.2 rating and 15 share on Fox, the network said.

That's down 12 percent from the 10.5 for last year's opener between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies but up 15 percent from the 8.0 for the St. Louis Cardinals-Detroit Tigers matchup two years ago.

"The secret to success is once you get to Games 5, 6 and 7, and this one starting out at a 10.3 [overnight rating] I think is every encouraging," he said, referring to the rating for the nation's larger television markets.

The World Series hasn't gone to a sixth game for four straight years -- the first time that's happened since 1913-16. Selig didn't think having Tampa Bay in the Series would necessarily reduce the TV audience.

"The Rays got a lot of coverage playing the Red Sox. It isn't like people are being introduced to the team for the first time," he said. "There are some members of the media worrying more about the ratings than we do."

Selig said playing day games on weekends is not an alternative.

"We had some afternoon games during the league championship and division series. The ratings were brutal," he said. "The ratings get better and better as the night goes on."

Even if MLB wanted to schedule day games, TV slots would be difficult if not impossible to find during football season.

"The networks have commitments, and they just can't do it," he said. "There's no sense in being anything but blunt about it."