Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Schedule Maker, You Get In This House Right Now!
Both the Angels-White Sox Game 2 and the Cardinals-Astros Game 1 are going at 5:20 pm? They're on at the same time? Who the hell is in charge of that bullshit? Hey baseball: Scheduling both games at the same time isn't going to help you get any ratings. Which especially won't help now that college football is kicking your ass. And it isn't going to please any fan who would like to see both games, which by the process of the progression of time just so happen to be the most important games of the season up to this point, really. Morons.
Tell you what, Fox. Why not have two things going Thursday night? Half of the country will get the Astros-Cardinals game, and half will get an epsiode of "Prison Break." Go ahead. It's not much dumber.
But anyway, you gotta hand it to the Angels, who were in New York on Sunday night, Los Angeles of Anaheim on Monday night, and Chicago's South Side on Tuesday night, and here they are, leading the ALCS 1-0. But maybe that's just because they are playing a Chicago team in the playoffs now.
It's A Dumb Rule And It Needs To Be Rethought: The Robinson Cano incident in Game 5, where he was called out for interference by daring to be directly in line with first base when a throw was made to first by the Angels catcher.
The rule that a batter-runner must stay within the running box along the foul side of the first base line until he gets to the base is ridiculous, and it needs to be thrown out and reworked. Memo to the rulemakers: First base--and we don't know if you have been to a game recently and seen the layout of the field--is in fair territory. We really have nothing more to say about this that is either relevant or true.
Tell you what, Fox. Why not have two things going Thursday night? Half of the country will get the Astros-Cardinals game, and half will get an epsiode of "Prison Break." Go ahead. It's not much dumber.
But anyway, you gotta hand it to the Angels, who were in New York on Sunday night, Los Angeles of Anaheim on Monday night, and Chicago's South Side on Tuesday night, and here they are, leading the ALCS 1-0. But maybe that's just because they are playing a Chicago team in the playoffs now.
It's A Dumb Rule And It Needs To Be Rethought: The Robinson Cano incident in Game 5, where he was called out for interference by daring to be directly in line with first base when a throw was made to first by the Angels catcher.
The rule that a batter-runner must stay within the running box along the foul side of the first base line until he gets to the base is ridiculous, and it needs to be thrown out and reworked. Memo to the rulemakers: First base--and we don't know if you have been to a game recently and seen the layout of the field--is in fair territory. We really have nothing more to say about this that is either relevant or true.
