Sources say the Rockies won the pennant this morning
I really wish I had read my Sports Business Journal before writing the item in my Tuesday column about the obscene length of baseball playoff games.
That's because the SBJ has a fascinating piece on a related topic: the age-old issue of really late games and how that impacts young fans.
The statistics strongly suggest plenty of people watch games after 11 p.m., even if they live in the Eastern Time Zone and even if they are under 18 and even if it's a school night.
Fine. But logic strongly suggests that these statistics are misleading, and if they are not, then the parents of those children need to be hit over the head with a wooden ruler.
Would all of the TV and MLB executives quoted in the story please e-mail me the names and phone numbers of the 12-year-olds in the East who watched the Rockies win the pennant early Tuesday morning?
I'm waiting . . .
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I guess stastistics would also prove that those who watched the game at 1 am don't work for a living.
You mean your boss doesn't allow you to show up for work at noon after sleeping off your Rockies celebration?
These start times are KILLING the great story that are the Colorado Rockies.
Considering their accomplishments, they are getting very little press - it's insane!
The bottom line is that the TV networks and the various sports leagues are more concerned with the West Coast seeing the START of a game as opposed to the East Coast seeing the END of a game.