Blue Jays vs. Rangers ALDS Thread

[Stangstag]

Oooooohhhhh boy. I have Friday off and I get to watch all 4 games.

[Stangstag]

wow...im screwed

 

Quit your job haha

[dineke]

mlb with weekday day games and games with east coast teams playing at 9:45. No wonder they struggle with ratings.

[Sammy225]

Will see Thursday Sunday anyway Friday i won't be able to leave work

[Inklink]

Fkkk these timings are bruuuutttaaaallll

[Stangstag]

The 12 45 game is all kinds of bulllshit

 

I think we all knew Jays would get shafted with the crappy timeslots.

[Dr. Dinger]

Are you f***ing KIDDING me?!

[jays_fever]

I think we all knew Jays would get shafted with the crappy timeslots.

 

4 maybe..at least you can run home to watch the second half. I get off work at 3. The Jays must have one of the highest tv ratings in all of baseball, I;m not sure how they can justify this at all

[dineke]

Beeston should put on his big boy pants and head into manfred's office and kick him square in the nuts. He's retiring anyways.

[Inklink]

So late double header in Baltimore followed by noon start the next day. Now this. MLB suxxxxxx

[LGBJ29]

I took 2 vacation days on Thursday and Friday #f***IT

[thatoneguy]

Lmfao a 12:45 game on a Friday? GFY MLB.

[blurnandez]

That is pretty s***** re: 12:45pm Friday game. I almost want to sell me ticket now. Almost...

[Brownie19]

And there goes all day Friday....

[Inklink]

If no one cares about Jays in the us, just fk it and double up on a later time slot.

[LGBJ29]

I don't get why they feel the need to spread all the games out. The amount of MLB fans that watch more than 2 games that day is so minimal. On top of that most people really only care about either the AL or the NL. They must have research on this that shows spreading it all out gains the most viewership, but on the surface it still seems like if you had game at 4, 2 at 7, and 1 at 10, that would work out fine. f*** off MLB

[Praxis]

Not worried. Gibbons can always rest the regulars for the 12:45pm start.

 

Wait....

[Governator]

12:45 is going to screw over some people no doubt. For me however, it works great!! I get to take the Go Train now

[Effit]

friday game at 12:45 lol

 

Ffs

[Daniel Labude]

Better team matchups get the better timeslots. Nobody in the US cares about the Jays.

 

Not true...I care about the Blue Jays

[Sammy225]

They did the exact same thing to the Os and Tigers last year. First two games were at 12et and 3et. Maybe give each series a night game so one teams fan base does not get royally f***ed all the time. I don't just an idea does not matter to me too much as i can't go to games from brandon

[intrigid]

On a positive note we have an evening game for game 3 which is kind of nice. A lot of people will be eating turkey in front of the TV this year.

[jaysblue]

I don't get why they feel the need to spread all the games out. The amount of MLB fans that watch more than 2 games that day is so minimal. On top of that most people really only care about either the AL or the NL. They must have research on this that shows spreading it all out gains the most viewership, but on the surface it still seems like if you had game at 4, 2 at 7, and 1 at 10, that would work out fine. f*** off MLB

 

Yeah I don't see what the issue would be by playing two games at the same time slot (especially when we're talking about the Jays game where most viewership would come from Canada). It definitely sucks. Same how they made Game 1 for the Raptors the past two season at like 12:30 on Saturday afternoon. Awful time.

[RealAccountant]

For fucjs sakes 1230

[aselvana]

lol at 930am westcoast....good morning Vancouver

[West Texas Forever]

Kind of s*****, good thing I work 3 minutes away from the Dome and my boss is a great guy, also with this start time on Friday maybe less children will be present, all around good news.

[Jonn]

This schedule is f***ed. I hope the Blue Jays are bitching. Both games should start at 8. Haven't f***ing idiots heard of watching 2 channels at once? I can watch 8 at once if I wanted too. The only people this effects is the fan base. Going to be a f***ing zoo in Toronto. And everyone is going to be drunk on weekday mornings. I guess thats nothing new to Spanky.

[Pulk_Pull]

Haha - Have any Toronto fans watched the MLB postseason the past decade? This has been going on for a long time. They avoid game overlaps like the plague. Anyone expecting any differently for a Canadian team hasn't been paying attention.

 

How many ESPN Sundays has Toronto got in the past five years? The US viewership just isn't there.

 

(And yes, I agree that a two games at once model would work and also be better)

[LGBJ29]

I love it! This lets me watch every game. Playing postseason games in the afternoon in their own slots is a great baseball tradition.

 

I bet some people do love it and it works out well for them. Do you work nights?

 

I just think for the amount of people that can watch every game like this, there are more that miss the early game(s) due to work. Even if 2 are at the same time its easy to flip back and fourth during commercials and pitching changes

[reedjohnsonfan]

Do mlb.tv subscribers get the playoffs for free on mlb.tv? A friend of mine will be in cottage country and has to use it this weekend. Odd I've never even thought about this since all the games are on regular tv every year.

 

Edit: I checked the site and was mildly confused so figured it was easier to ask here.