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LA Times Columnist: TV Is Evil
Written by wrigleyville   
Sunday, 25 October 2009
The guardians of baseball purity are displeased with the prolonged postseason, as it is dictated by television schedules. This from Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times: Fox, your friendly network for both the ALCS and the World Series, saw that ratings were better for weeknight games than for weekend games. So they asked for, and got, more weeknight, prime-time games. From 1969 through 2006, World Series Game 1 was on a Saturday. In 2007 that changed in an effort to boost sagging ratings. So now it starts on a Wednesday. A Saturday start means the likelihood of two weekends and a weekend finish. A midweek start means the likelihood of two midweek blocks of games and a midweek finish. It also means the likelihood of the highest ratings for the biggest finales, Games 6 and 7. Good for business. Bad for baseball. This will come as a shocker to many, but this is all about money. Better ratings, more ad sales, more profit. Major sports pay lip service to fans and community projects and feel-good stuff, but when the going gets tough, the tough sell their souls to TV. Except baseball is a business. Players are not paid with hugs and unicorns. They are paid with money - lots and lots of it. And a lot of that comes from television contracts - which allows people to watch games on their moving picture boxes. And, oddly, television networks seek to maximize the number of people who will watch their product. Which would seem to be good for business. And baseball.


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