major league baseball and fox announced world series games will start about 40 minutes earlier this year, at around 7:57 pm eastern time. this means games have half a chance of ending on the day they were actually started playing in east coast households, a milestone baseball stopped caring about years ago.
"our goal is to schedule games so the largest number of people can
watch, and fox has gone to an enormous amount of effort to make this
happen. It's been a great joint effort between the two us," mlb commissioner selig said, hoping to appear as if he gives a rat's ass about the people who watch his sport.
"an enormous amount of effort?" for fuck's sake, it was as easy as deleting the "8:38" and typing "7:57" i go through more effort getting out of bed each morning.
don't get me wrong, it's nice the games are starting earlier. it means people might actually see the end of most games, but to pretend any effort went into "hey we're starting the games a lil earlier, so you should probably turn the cameras on early too." is insulting,
according to the story selig also threw out the concept of starting saturday games in the afternoon something fox shot down. apparently according to their research viewership would be down 30% if games were played during a time most of the population could be home and awake to watch them. let's repeat that slowly and obnoxiously to see if it makes any sense: VIEWERSHIP WOULD BE DOWN THIRTY PERCENT IF GAMES WERE PLAYED DURING A TIME MOST OF THE POPULATION COULD BE HOME AND AWAKE TO WATCH THEM.
nope, still doesn't make any sense… what fox' research really said is "fuck the fans and people who actually want to see the game, ad revenue would be down if the game wasn't in prime time." hrmm, that makes a lot more sense.
in other sports news, pittsburgh steelers linebacker james harrison will once again not be joining his team when they visit the head liar, i mean president, at the white house on thursday. ""if you want to see the pittsburgh steelers, invite us when we don't
win the super bowl," he told pittsburgh's wtae-tv. "so as far as i'm
concerned he would have invited arizona if they had won."
president obama replied "well, duh…" and slapped his forehead mockingly like a 4 year old.
bravo james! you tell 'em! who the fuck is the president to want to celebrate excellence? why award the best when we could just as easily acknowledge someone or a group of someones who were entirely mediocre? we'd probably stub our toe if we put our best foot forward, so let's invite all the "c" students of america and show them off, eh? (hmm…perhaps that joke may have been funnier if we didn't just let a "c" student fuck us for 8 years.)
oddly, many heads of state in africa, central america, and other third world nations did, in fact, invite the cardinals to congratulate them on their victory and thank them for the many free shirts…
finally in our sports around the world round up, we have vince mcmahon proving why he may have the biggest balls the world has ever seen…
"even though the denver nuggets had a strong team this year and were
projected to make the playoffs, obviously nuggets and pepsi center
owner stan kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold
the May 25th date for a potential playoff game," wwe chairman vince mcmahon said in a statement.
see, vince was mad that the nba has a playoff game scheduled for the pepsi center on the same day monday night raw is scheduled to broadcast live in front of a sold out arena.
the pepsi center has decided to allow the event that has the most chance of being legitimate take place as scheduled. kobe's trip to the finals or triple h's road to the championship? well, at least the wwe acknowledges it's scripted…
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