October 24, 2009

October baseball in N.E. U.S. = Rain

Thanks entirely to the owners and commissioner and their desire to maximize profit, we have an entirely-predictable rainout of the scheduled Game Six of the ALCS this evening.

If the teams played a shorter regular season they could still have two playoff rounds before the World Series and finish before November. Or they could collapse the three divisions in each league back to two and have a League Championship series between the winners of those divisions to determine who represented each league in the Series.

I know. Pie in the sky. Greed will always trump common sense. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the Commissioner's office is on Park Avenue in NYC, not too far away from Wall Street; nothing bad has ever come from that location.

I was counting on baseball to keep me from hearing Tim Tebow's name all afternoon, too.

Posted by Linkmeister at October 24, 2009 01:59 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I get your point about the lateness of the schedule, but it can rain hard in September and early October in the Northeast, too. The cold is the real worry, but even now, at 9:30 pm in New England, the temperature is still in the mid-sixties, so today is probably the wrong example to cite as an argument.

Posted by: DXMachina at October 24, 2009 04:38 PM