Life as a New England sports fan must be pretty damn good right now. They have a world champion in baseball and a football team that could almost be charged with murdering other teams, they’re that good.
Congrats, Boston, on your seventh title. And congrats to Mike Lowell on his MVP award — he’s truly deserving. He killed teams in the postseason — not just the World Series — with his timely hitting.
On to football season, full-time…and finally, regular sleep. These postseason games were on way too late at night. The World Series — hell, a vast majority of the postseason — was completely inaccessible to children under 16. I know it’s ratings pressure, but they have to fix this. It just seems wrong that a kid can’t watch his or her heroes win the World Series. I dunno, it just seems wrong to keep our national pastime (still is, right?) out of the reach of those who will carry it forward to the next generation.
Discussion of There’s only one October, and it’s over is now closed
Yeah, I saw a thing on ESPN the other day that said the Patriots have broken or tied a record of 331 points in the first 8 games. That’s downright shocking.
And yeah, I’ll have to agree with the post-season being on waay too late. I remember back in the early 90’s when the Braves were in the WS, that game started during daylight and was done, even in extra innings, before 10pm.