Baseball Rant

We're on the cusp of having exactly what Fox doesn't want- a Tampa Bay/Phillies World Series. I'm not sure it's going to be as much of a ratings stinker as everyone fears, but I can guarantee you it won't be as good as the Boston/Cubs match up they were drooling over, or the Boston/Dodgers tilt they'd take as second choice.

At least once they get to the world series, it'll be played sensibly. It'll be a 2-3-2 format with the only off days scheduled as the travel days. What they've done to the post season is laughable, and a gmae changer. I'm ok with the Wildcard. I think that it has brought some excitement in to baseball, and the Brewers into the post season this year. I'm not a fan of the 5 game series, but again, I can accept it. What I don't like is the off days that they have scheduled in the first two rounds. It's not how baseball is played. These guys are used to playing 6 days a week. To have them play 2 games, day off(travel), play 2 games, day off, play 1 game, day off (travel), play 2 games is absurd. They should only be off for the travel days. I know that it was done to get more games in primetime, but so what. Most of the games have actually been OUT of primetime because of their length. Think about it- you could have had a 4pm start in the NLCS yesterday, a nice 1p game in LA, and then transition to the ALCS.

Fox/MLB is actually threatened with not having any MLB games this weekend if both series end in 5 games. Pretty unbelieveable, huh?