As Baseball Time in Arlington points out, a little more Ranger vitriol should probably be aimed at Fox for potentially refusing to move the abortion of the X Factor instead of the ALCS. You would think that if MLB granted a network rights to broadcast a game, somewhere in that contract it would say that said network can't shove a baseball bat up the collective fans' asses by showing multiple League Championship games during the day. I can't imagine the NFC Championship beingplayed during your Wednesday afternoon marketing brainstorming meeting, or if the Mavs-OKC Game 2 4th Quarter was starting up during your 5:00pm drive. We can all be upset about the Game 2 move, but weather happens and that clearly wasn't planned ahead of time. I also refuse to believe that MLB would refuse to place two games on at even nearly the same time. Other sports don't seem to have a problem with it, as certainly more people will watch either primetime game than one during normal work hours.The fact that Games 4 and 5 of a League Championship were planned well in advance to be at 3:15 is slap in the face to fans, an embarrassment to the league, another step back in the uphill battle of MLB marketability and popularity, and something that will hopefully somehow backfire in Selig and Fox's face.
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