Baseball Playoffs

Has anyone ever noticed the scheduling that goes on in the baseball playoffs and wondered what the fuck they are thinking? The most intriguing games are scheduled during the day and then the teams that will sell are scheduled at night. Lets be honest the most intriguing series is Colorado and the Phils, with the Boston LA on at 6:30 and the Cubs on at 10. If it wasn't for the large fan bases of both the Cubs and Boston they would be playing during the day... just like Colorado and the Phils. The stories of how these teams made the playoffs makes the matchup that more interesting. Lets be honest here, I do not see the Cubs having any trouble dealing with Arizona and there anemic offense (arizona has a .205 average against the Cubs this year) and while the Boston series maybe interesting however Boston and LA have not played a meaningful game the last week or so I expect to see sloppy baseball for the first couple of games. And lets be honest with the series that starts tomorrow, will NY have trouble with Cleveland who has, for the last 50 years, shown its ineptitude in the playoffs.

So why the rant?... maybe this is why people are bored with baseball. Instead of showing the series that will be interesting by placing them on prime time, they show the games that will get the ratings from the fans of the teams. But the fair weather fans are sick of seeing NY, Boston, Chicago in the playoffs, we want to see the underdog, the unknown, things that people claim baseball has lacked with the high salary teams making the playoffs every year. But perhaps people don't realize them because baseball is giving people something else to watch, the usual suspects who are there every year and not the teams that create the interesting story lines.