Bud Selig and MLB have done everything to get as much money out of the postseason as possible. Games are played at night to maximize TV revenue when younger fans cannot watch and this season the games have been pushed back to gain more money:
Fox, your friendly network for both the ALCS and the World Series, saw that ratings were better for weeknight games than for weekend games. So they asked for, and got, more weeknight, prime-time games. From 1969 through 2006, World Series Game 1 was on a Saturday. In 2007 that changed in an effort to boost sagging ratings. So now it starts on a Wednesday.
By starting on a Wednesday they are moved the playoffs deeper into the fall where we could soon have a “Mr. November.” The weather in most parts of the country starts to get worse in late October causing more problems. We saw it earlier in New York where they played through terrible conditions to try to keep the playoffs on schedule. Even with an ugly forecast for last night, MLB waited until the last minute to cancel the game. The stop and start has ruined the flow of baseball and allowed teams to maximize their front of the rotation starters taking some of the drama out of the game.
Way to go Bud, thanks for screwing something else up.
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