A Wet One

Major League Baseball is finally suffering from their avarice. After striking a multi-billion dollar deal with FOX, covering the next few World Series's, it all came crashing down last night, much like the torrential rain that turned Citizen's Bank park into a wading pool.
FOX made a deal with MLB to start the games at 8:30pm, EST, instead of 7 o'clock. Idiotic. Playoff games, like any fan knows, take at least 2 hours. The Sox have had multiple postseason games that have gone longer than 5 hours in the last four years. You can't start a game at 8:30 and expect it to end at a reasonable time. This, of course, is complicated by inclement weather. Now, after rain made play impossible in the 4th, 5th and half of the 6th inning on Monday night, they were forced to postpone the game till tonight. Well the weather in Philadelphia is even less lovely or brotherly tonight. It's just as windy and rainy. So they're pushing it to tomorrow. Or later.
Bud Selig, baseball's unpopular commissioner, is out of excuses. Naturally you can't end a World Series with a shortened game, but you also shouldn't start a game an hour and a half late, because of weather, when the game is already starting at 8:30 pm! It blows my mind that he thinks this makes any type of sense. It's bad enough nobody is watching because it's Rays (who have a handful of out-of-the-woodwork bandwagon fans) vs. the Phillies. I just hope Selig doesn't do to MLB what Bettman has done to the NHL. Maybe it's an unfair comparison but it makes me worry when Selig would sign a deal with FOX that alienates tv fans and ballpark fans alike. FOX, what a joke.