 Monday, October 22, 2007
Why are we waiting 3 days for the World Series?
Last night the Boston Red Sox routed Cleveland to take Game 7 and go to their second World Series in the last 4 years. A week ago tonight the Colorado Rockies cliched a four game sweep and have been waiting. Why do we have to wait until Wednesday for the World Series to start, three days after Boston wins and eight days after Colorado? If the Fall Classic goes into seven games, it will end on November 1st. November? Sure Derrik Jeter is "Mr. November" for his home run after midnight on 10/31/01, but we had baseball in November only after 9/11 when we had a week of the regular season delayed, and the last two games of that series were played in Arizona. There is too much time between the Division Series and the League Championship Series and thus the World Series. There should be only 1 day between the end of the Division Series and the League Championship Series and only 1 day between the LCS and the World Series, and have less days in-between the games during the series, only 1 day off after game 2 and 1 day off after game 5 should be allowed. This series with the Red Sox and Indians seemed to drag on forever. For example, the Indians went 4 games in the ALDS to defeat the Yankees and still had to wait 4 days to play the Red Sox, who had to wait 5 days after sweeping the Angles. The Rockies and Arizona both had to wait 5 days after sweeping their respective teams in the NLDS. Even without a sweep, they would have had to wait too many days. There have been arguments in some quarters that the Rockies are now cold and stale since they have had 8 days off. I am not so sure that I buy that, after 162 regular season games, the 1 day playoff, the NLDS and the NLCS, a few days off is great, and the extended days off can be used very wisely by the coaches with simulated games, batting practice, etc. We'll see, if the red-hot Rockies go down fast like the hot Tigers did last year, maybe MLB will start to listen to our complaints. Posted By Steve in New York
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