Only in Baseball

So, you're Bud Selig, and you're probably waking up this morning, checking out the Philly newspapers, and reading how you made a poor decision to even play Game Five of the World Series last night, knowing that rain is coming. And you're just shaking your head in disbelief.

I'm going to defend Bud on this one. The forecast for Philly today is calling for possible snow, so if you're Bud, you have to play the game last night, especially since they were saying the rain would not arrive until after midnight.

But, this is Major League Baseball, the sport that scrapped a World Series because of the strike fourteen years ago, the sport that had to end an All-Star Game in a tie in the Commissioner's hometown because of mismanagement. In other words, Murphy's Law is in effect. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

The real problem here? The TV networks. FOX, to be specific. They are the ones who want these games to start at darned near 9PM in the Eastern time zone. If you started the game at 7 o'clock Eastern, you probably are able to finish last night's game without much of a problem.

But, the networks say they can't start that early because it's not 'pimetime'. Well, to that, I say what a bunch of BS! I live in the Central time zone, where they start primetime television at 7 o'clock. And, when I lived on the East Coast, we always talked about how the games started too late.

It seems so simple, doesn't it? Start the games at seven and go from there. Tell the FOX's of the world, the ESPN's to shut up and deal with it. They'll make their money. People will watch the games.

But, don't expect MLB to be the first to tell the networks where to go and how to get there. They might need someone else, like the NFL, NBA, or NHL to do it first. And, sadly, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon