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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:33 pm |
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http://www.telegram.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160469/1009/SPORTS#
Is it a challenge to stay awake in front of your television past the
sixth inning of these late-starting postseason baseball games,
especially now that the Red Sox have been eliminated?
Are you nodding in agreement, or simply nodding off?
Cheer up. Beginning tonight, you probably can last through the
seventh. Fox will start its coverage of the ALCS and World Series
about a half-hour earlier this year. First pitch of Game 1 of the ALCS
between the Angels and Yankees is scheduled for 7:57 tonight, although
rain is forecast, so the game could be delayed or even postponed.
Only Sunday night ALCS and World Series games will start later than
7:57 p.m. Game 1 of the World Series last year began at 8:35. The last
regularly-scheduled World Series game to start before 8 on a weeknight
was Game 5 between the Orioles and Pirates in 1971. Primetime NLCS
games on TBS this year start at 8:07.
National networks schedule postseason games later than regular-season
games to give fans on the West Coast time to get home from work to
watch them, but East Coast fans suffer.
“Over the last few years, games have been ending a bit later than we’d
like,” Fox Sports president Ed Goren admitted.
Goren said this earlier schedule “should help fans of all ages see
weeknight games from start to finish.”
That’s not really true because the games still will probably end past
the bedtimes of many fans, especially the younger ones, on the East
Coast. But the earlier starts will enable fans to watch more of the
games before they nod off.
Fox pointed out that, of the major sporting championships, only the
Super Bowl has an earlier starting time than the World Series.
Apparently, U.S. Open golf doesn’t count. The NBA Finals begin at 9
p.m., but usually last only 2-1/2 hours and end about 11:30, roughly
the same time the ALCS and World Series games likely will.
This World Series will be the 20th for Fox analyst Tim McCarver,
extending his record, and the 12th on play-by-play for Joe Buck, tying
Vin Scully and Curt Gowdy for the most.
Of the four LCS managers, three were catchers: Joe Torre of the
Dodgers, Mike Scioscia of the Angels and Joe Girardi of the Yankees.
That comes as no surprise to McCarver, another former catcher.
“It’s more of a natural transition, catcher to manager,” McCarver
said, “because his job is all-inclusive. It’s also easier to think
about the big picture because offensive statistics aren’t as important
for a catcher. They only care about how many winners they caught.”
Ex-catchers don’t necessarily become champions. Charlie Manuel, who
managed the Phillies to the World Series title last year, played left
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