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Report: World Series to start on a Wednesday... (1 Viewer)

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2869747

In an effort to boost sagging ratings for the World Series, Major League Baseball will announce Monday that the 2007 Fall Classic will start on Wednesday instead of Saturday, USA Today reported.

A Wednesday start will allow baseball to avoid playing on Friday, which is TV's second-least watched night after Saturday. If the Series goes to a Game 5, it also would go head-to-head with ESPN's Monday Night Football.

According to USA Today, Game 1 will be scheduled for Wednesday Oct. 24. If the Series goes to a Game 7, it will be played on Nov. 1, the first time baseball has scheduled a World Series game in the month of November.

It won't be the first time a Series game has been played in November, however, as the Yankees and Diamondbacks played into November 2001 after the season was delayed after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 of that year.

MLB president Bob DuPuy told USA Today that baseball considered starting the World Series on a Tuesday, but that would mean a Series game would be played on a Friday, and avoiding a Friday night game was a priority for the league.

 
I hope they start it earlier, like 7 Eastern, so kids can watch it. I swear MLB doesn't care about their future fan bases and instead focuses on profits strictly for today.

 
I hope they start it earlier, like 7 Eastern, so kids can watch it. I swear MLB doesn't care about their future fan bases and instead focuses on profits strictly for today.
Isn't that the truth... Starting it at 8 still wouldn't be bad, if they didn't have to have the 30 minute pre-game after the networks come on the air...
 
A Wednesday start will allow baseball to avoid playing on Friday, which is TV's second-least watched night after Saturday. If the Series goes to a Game 5, it also would go head-to-head with ESPN's Monday Night Football.
I don't understand. How would starting the World Series on a Wednesday "avoid playing on Friday"? They weren't playing on Fridays under the old format anyway.Even starting the series on Wednesday would still have a Saturday game, the least watched night of TV. And putting up Game 5 against MNF is a good thing when under the prior format, Monday was also an off day?To me it looks like MLB is surrendering the sports spotlight to football (college and the NFL) on Saturdays and Sundays. However, they are now going to go up against MNF. I suppose Game 6 on Wednesday is better than Game 6 on Saturday and Game 7 on Thursday is better than Game 7 on Sunday for viewer ratings, but what about the quality of play? Baseball teams are used to playing almost every day, and now there would be the possibility of BOTH the ALCS and NLCS winners sitting over a week?Keep the current schedule (Game 1 on the Saturday), but start the weekend WS games earlier in the day. That would avoid the national college and pro football primetime national games (looks like they are trying to avoid it anyway), and it would allow the kids (and us east coast adults who can't/don't want to stay up until 1:00 AM Eastern) to watch the end of those games.
 
I don't understand. How would starting the World Series on a Wednesday "avoid playing on Friday"? They weren't playing on Fridays under the old format anyway.
I don't get this either. If they want to avoid sagging ratings, like someone else said, start the game at 7-7:30. Advertiser ratings are logged in primetime hours (8-11) so the game would still almost always carry through that timeslot anyways, and everybody could watch the finish.It's amazing how stupid some people running a billion-dollar industry are.
 
I don't understand. How would starting the World Series on a Wednesday "avoid playing on Friday"? They weren't playing on Fridays under the old format anyway.
I don't get this either. If they want to avoid sagging ratings, like someone else said, start the game at 7-7:30. Advertiser ratings are logged in primetime hours (8-11) so the game would still almost always carry through that timeslot anyways, and everybody could watch the finish.It's amazing how stupid some people running a billion-dollar industry are.
:coffee: Seriously. It's not like they haven't heard this feedback ad nauseam.
 
I don't understand. How would starting the World Series on a Wednesday "avoid playing on Friday"? They weren't playing on Fridays under the old format anyway.
I don't get this either. If they want to avoid sagging ratings, like someone else said, start the game at 7-7:30. Advertiser ratings are logged in primetime hours (8-11) so the game would still almost always carry through that timeslot anyways, and everybody could watch the finish.It's amazing how stupid some people running a billion-dollar industry are.
:lmao: Seriously. It's not like they haven't heard this feedback ad nauseam.
:lmao: I think they start the games later because of west coast markets. If they start at 8 they figure they can catch all the coasties getting out of work and all the mountain time people are eating dinner. Looking at the population shifts over the years this makes sense and starting the games at 8 or a little after make sense for the whole country even those we forget about west of the Mississippi. Look at the bright side, at least we still have Joe Buck. :X :yucky: :X
 
I don't understand. How would starting the World Series on a Wednesday "avoid playing on Friday"? They weren't playing on Fridays under the old format anyway.
I don't get this either. If they want to avoid sagging ratings, like someone else said, start the game at 7-7:30. Advertiser ratings are logged in primetime hours (8-11) so the game would still almost always carry through that timeslot anyways, and everybody could watch the finish.It's amazing how stupid some people running a billion-dollar industry are.
:thumbdown: Seriously. It's not like they haven't heard this feedback ad nauseam.
:thumbup: I think they start the games later because of west coast markets. If they start at 8 they figure they can catch all the coasties getting out of work and all the mountain time people are eating dinner. Looking at the population shifts over the years this makes sense and starting the games at 8 or a little after make sense for the whole country even those we forget about west of the Mississippi. Look at the bright side, at least we still have Joe Buck. :X :unsure: :X
Then the first pitch should be thrown at 8PM. One of these days, they are going to figure out that if they start the games at a decent East Coast hour, they will get better ratings......and the guy who is credited with presenting this radical idea will be viewed as a genius. But hey, we still have Joe Buck. :X :yucky: :X
 

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