Great scheduling, MLB!!!

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 31, 2008 8:39 PM CDT

Tomorrow is Labor Day, a traditional Monday holiday that most of America takes off. Seemingly, exactly the sort of day baseball would want to promote and put up a full slate of games on, maybe have ESPN do a full day of broadcasts, with attendance being higher than it would be on the average Monday due to the holiday.

Right?

Nope. Only 22 teams are playing, with 8 teams getting the day off.

This is a step backwards from last year, when 28 teams played and 2 got the day off, and 2006, when every team played.

This is classic Bud Selig tin eared marketing, part of an organization that thinks that the best way to increase interest in the sport is to maintain ridiculous blackout rules but make the All Star Game determine who gets home field advantage in the World Series.

Hey, Bud:

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Boooooooooo!!!!!!!!

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i dont think this deserves fan post but

that umpiring staff is a joke. read this article.

i dont have a problem with the really close calls but you need to ask for help from the other umpires on a check swing, they have a better angle. Hohn is on a power trip

I give up

by Steal Home on Aug 31, 2008 8:45 PM CDT reply actions

even more ridiculous

Is that no one had any idea what Laird actually did because the dumbasses at FSN felt that they needed to show the pitch tracker in super slow mo at that point while the TAG and Lewin were describing what was going on on the field. FSN + Bud Selig = The Destruction of Baseball

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Aug 31, 2008 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions

also

it took FSN about 4 months to figure out that the players in the MLB are allowed to swing at the first pitch in the inning

I give up

by Steal Home on Aug 31, 2008 9:11 PM CDT up reply actions

Seems MLB always screws this up...

Memorial Day is the same way where it seems a full slate of games is never played.

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by rangers85 on Aug 31, 2008 8:47 PM CDT reply actions

Memorial Day had the same numbers

Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?

"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states" - Barack Obama

by LSBUser on Aug 31, 2008 8:49 PM CDT reply actions

Baseball is a business correct?

That is what all the owners and players tell us. So if Bud is a direct extension or a puppet if you will for the owners for them to let this go on is just stupidity on their part and not a very good business decision. IMO

A bunch of midgets with no arms could pitch better than us. -iorange555

by boomer1 on Aug 31, 2008 8:55 PM CDT reply actions

Didn't Bud say he was going to retire in a few years or something like that

If so, thank the baseball gods on that one.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Aug 31, 2008 8:58 PM CDT reply actions

I hate pretty much everything currently including that game, Hicks, umpires, LAAAA, Arkansas state, Washington, Mike Sherman, UT fans, Bill Byrne, being unfortunate enough to grow up in Dallas and be stuck with the Rangers, Herbstreit, et al. I am irritated in general.

by FuturePants on Aug 31, 2008 10:01 PM CDT reply actions

I dunno

I pretty much love Arkansas State right about now…

WHOOPssssss

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Aug 31, 2008 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions

Oh, and I'm not a UT fan

I just like the aggie misery

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Aug 31, 2008 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions

I used to respect -- often disagree with -- but respect George Will, until

I saw this picture.

Go Rangers!

by rooster on Aug 31, 2008 10:23 PM CDT reply actions

Which one

is Will and which Selig?

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,
und freudenvollere.

by t ball on Aug 31, 2008 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions

boggles the mind

also don’t get the staggered opening day thing. opening day should be de facto national holiday.

by SteveP on Aug 31, 2008 10:40 PM CDT reply actions

All teams should

play on Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day. Preferrably day games.

Nolan Ryan should be the Rangers president, GM, manager and pitching coach.

by RangerMad on Aug 31, 2008 10:54 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Preferably double headers -nt

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.

by Caradoc on Sep 2, 2008 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions

Birds of a feather flock together

by 44FAN on Sep 1, 2008 12:33 AM CDT reply actions

so do pigs and swine...

…rats and mice will have their chance…

…as I will have mine.

no, money down!

by oc on Sep 1, 2008 12:59 AM CDT up reply actions

F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to “work” tomorrow (my usual day off, but I’m filling in for another guy), which I thought would consist of me sitting around the station house finishing up paperwork and watching baseball all afternoon…I ASSUMED there would be a shit load of games on because it is Labor Day. My day has been ruined and it hasn’t even started yet.

"Does this effectively hide my thunder?"

by Bob Loblaw on Sep 1, 2008 2:19 AM CDT reply actions