Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Borrring World Series

The Cards and Tigers are playing in the World Series and the general populace seems to care less. Both teams have world class managers, have overcome long odds to get here and the collective sports world yawns. Well if the games didn't start so late and go so interminably long, maybe folks (including me) would care. The way that Fox has done the Series is boring and horrible. Don't hand me that baloney that because the Yankees aren't in it for you to root against, it's not compelling. The last time the Yankees were in the series. No one cared. I know why and I can list them.
1) MLB doesn't hype the series. Now granted, I know that the Game 7 of the NLCS was on a Thursday and Game 1 of the World Series was on a Saturday, but there needs to be more hype. Not just from the over-coverage on ESPN, but the media seems to have written off the series, just because a sexy team like the Yankees or Mets aren't there.
2) The scheduling is all wrong. There are too many night games, Now I'm not saying that all the games should have a 1 PM start, that unrealistic. The first game starting on a Saturday is fine, but have it on Saturday afternoon, at about 4 And don't give me all this hogwash about conflicting with college football, they can live with the conflict. The NFL you would lose, have that game at night. And all these games starting at 8:30 eastern??? Start the games at 7 Eastern, My mom used to let me stay up a little later to watch the last part of the game if it was just 10, but I can't stay awake to watch the games as the go past 11.
3) The game is not visually friendly anymore. Fox has some go visual ideas but they've gotten too cluttered. The score and count box up top is fine. But all the extreaneous stuff can be done away with, they go way too indepth and try to be too cute with the special effects when they are trying to show stats.
I could rant further, but I'd put you to sleep quicker than the games have been...The NFL picks are forthcoming. I just had to vent

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