Keep the remote close tonight, folks
by Ed Valentine on Oct 25, 2009 8:35 AM EDT
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PrintThanks for nothing, Bud!
Anyone who is a fan of both the New York Yankees and New York Giants, like myself, can't possibly be very happy this morning. Thanks to baseball's moronic scheduling, we have to choose between watching the Yankees and Giants tonight -- as both games start after 8 p.m.
Why, Bud? Oh, I already know the answer. Because the 8:20 start is necessitated by FOX. Never mind the fact that it puts fans of both teams in an awkward position.
Start the game in the afternoon and you get two things. Warmer weather this late in the year that is more conducive to baseball. And, you turn it into a great sports day for Yankees/Giants fans.
But no, we can't have the game during the day because FOX is showing NFL games.
So, what do you do? Flip channels incessantly? Use the picture-in-picture functionality to see both, if your television is equipped with it? DVR both games so you can go back-and-forth and make sure you don't miss any of the key action in either game?
I know I'm not the only one trying to figure out how I am going to do this tonight.
Of course, we know that the commissioner doesn't really care about the fans, or, in truth, the quality of the games at this point. He cares only about the television dollars. That's why we are staring at the probability of two Northeast teams playing a World Series that will stretch into November. An absolutely ridiculous time to be playing baseball -- especially at night -- in this part of the country.
You can't do anything about the rain -- except get the season over with earlier. The scheduled days off annoy not just the fans, but the players and managers, too.
Partly because they each swept their division series, the Yankees and the Angels have played just eight games in 20 days since the end of the regular season. In a session with Los Angeles-area writers on Saturday, Angels Manager Mike Scioscia made his feelings clear.
"Ridiculous," Scioscia said. "I don’t know. Can I say it any clearer than that? We should have never had a day off last Wednesday. We should never have three days off after the season. You shouldn’t even have two days off after the season.
"It just takes an advantage away for a deep team, which everybody feels very strongly is an asset. It takes that advantage away and I think that’s something that Major League Baseball hopefully will consider looking at."
The reason for the elongated schedule is the recent change in the start of the World Series. From 1985 through 2006, the World Series was scheduled to start on a Saturday. Then baseball and the networks concluded that Saturday was a dead night for ratings. They built a few extra days into the schedule, which pushed Game 1 to a Wednesday.
Getting back to tonight, I am curious how other Giants/Yankees fans are going to handle the evening. Let me know.
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Giants vs Cards?
I’m not a Giants fan, but I like to see them do well. They are going to destroy the Cardinals and you won’t be missing much. Game should be over by the end of the 1st half. No doubt.
What I would do is DVR both games, watch the Yankee game, THEN while avoiding all outside contact, I’d go and watch the Giants game while FFing between ever non-football play related moment. You could watch the football game in less than an 1.5 hours.
If you are a good PA member...
You should have your computer in front of you while watching the Yankee game. In this instance, you should be able to use the NBC online streaming service for the Giants game.
NBC.com and NFL.com stream all Sunday Night Football games online, with additional angles exclusive to online. Here is the link to the streaming site on NBC.com.
This way, you can have two screens dedicated to the best of New York, take your DVR and remote out of the equation, and not risk one game getting ruined for you.
Blind devotion.
by ProfessorBigelow on Oct 25, 2009 10:26 AM EDT reply actions
Yankees v. Giants tonight
This post season scheduling has sure been something to scratch your head about. I’m a transplanted Yankee fan now living in Dallas — Texas lives and dies for football, from High School games to the pros. I know that out here if a baseball game replaced a football game on TV there would be riots in the street. I’m also very, very lucky to be a JETS fan, not a Giants fan, so I’m not quite as affected as you Giants fans out there, but I totally understand how you all feel. The Sunday Night Football game is a big thing in this country. I’m sure that the execs at NBC are no happier than the Giant fans about this debacle. Now I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but why didn’t they do something like put the Yankee game on in the afternoon — at the time of their choice — on TBS? I don’t know what it is, but there definitely seems to be some sort of connection between Fox and TBS, and I’m sure there is nothing on TBS that couldn’t be postponed to accommodate MLB and the fans. I wonder if the fact that the Giants were in the Sunday night game was even taken into account — somehow I think not.
Recording either game won’t work because I am 100% sure that the commentators at both games will keep fans notified up to the second on the scores of the other game. If you have PIP ability, that seems like a pretty good option. Both games have the logo screen that they show before an instant replay, so you’d know when to switch the PIP to see hot plays. The other option is bringing your computer in and putting the Yankee game on MLBTV. Then you would just have to switch which is muted. If you have the ability to do this, I think it’s the best choice.
I sure hope that MLB and Bud the genius are learning something here. Having last Wednesday as an off day was REALLY nuts. No matter how I look at it, I can’t come up with one single reason for it. The players needed a rest? Give me a break !!!! I think what MLB should do next year is schedule the whole post season on 2 “basic cable” stations — maybe TBS and WGN? Screw FOX and their million dollar 30 second commercial spots. On stations like TBS and WGN, if none of the matches go the distance, games could be moved accordingly without causing any major upset to anyone. Bud needs to grow a pair as they say and do what’s right for MLB, the players AND the fans !!!!!
Okay…there’s my 2 cents worth :) And lastly…….GO YANKEES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would Fox give up a Yankee Post Season Game To TBS?
MLB could use the ratings victory over the NFL. You have baseballs marquee team in an elimination game, and you want to move to TBS in the afternoon? And why to accommodate the NFL and the Giants and Cards? That would be stupid on so many levels.
I'll be at Applebees where I
work we have multiple TV s so I ll just split both games between all the TV s
I'll be @ game 6 tonight...
but trust my i’ll be checking my phone every couple of minutes for the Giants score i was very upset when the game got postponed yesterday and I just hope it’s all worth it and the Yankees come away with theSeries victory.
"What do the Detroit Red Wings and the Titanic have in common?
They both look good until they hit the ice!"
by SportsDalaiLama on Oct 25, 2009 11:41 AM EDT reply actions
It's really telling about the sorry state
of baseball these days that on a Yankee fan ite no less people are having trouble deciding whether to watch their supposed beloved Yankees possibly clinch a World Series berth in a game 6 of the ALCS vs a mid season football game.
I think that all of the off days are stupid but to blame Bud for wanting to play the game at the time that most people would watch it is pretty silly.
by garp on Oct 25, 2009 11:45 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
Watch Yankees on TV
Watch giants on laptop. Nfl.com has live stream of sunday and thursday night games.
I deal with it
by not being a Giants fan.
Go Yankees!
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. ~Casey Stengel, 1967
by tarheel_highlander on Oct 25, 2009 12:51 PM EDT reply actions
damn straight
football season doesn’t start till the yanks win the series or we are eliminated. If your watching a giants game over the alcs ur not a real fan of baseball. Ill take playoff baseball over anything.
I know
I’m ticked off too. I"ll probably flip the channel to the Giants game in between pitches and in between innings. I’m going to have a LOT of channel flipping tonight.
GO YANKEES!!!!!!!! GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!
I'll be watching the Yankees
And I’ll have a window open to NFL Game Center to see what’s going on in the Giants game. My only consolation is that the last time a potential clincher for the Yankees went up against a night Giants game was 1999. We all know how that ended for the Yankees. I’m pretty sure the Giants beat the Cowboys too.
by long time listener on Oct 25, 2009 12:58 PM EDT reply actions
Being an Eagles fan
I’ll have the same problem Monday if it goes to seven. Of course we’re playing the ‘Skins so it shouldn’t be a close game, while the Giants game definitely could be. It’s a tough situation. I guess the best option is to just be flipping, with the focus on the Yanks.
by Rumplestiltskin02 on Oct 25, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions
Is there even a debate?
Maybe i am missing something, but…
Option 1) The Yankees are playing an ALCS game with the pennant on the line.
Option 2) The football Giants are playing a mid season game against a bad Arizona team.
Maybe if the Giants were playing a divisional opponent or there was some other underlying subplot you could maybe make an argument. However, even then it is really no contest.
I am sure I’ll flip during commercials or whatever to see how the Giants are doing but if i was told I could only watch one game, it would be the Yankees by a mile.
Fire Girardi! Paul O'Neill for manager!
That "Bad" Arizona Team Are The Defending NFC Champs
and if the Giants dont pressure Warner, Giants fans will be happy they were watching the Yankees.
?
you been paying attention to football since January of last year? The Cards are for real.
Every bit like the Saints actually right now, so like the Jet fan above said…this is another tough matchup for the Giants.
THAT’s why I’m pissed. This is a good game.
..."I predict...the Giants are #1"...
...."That's not a prediction meatman, that's a FACT OF LIFE"!.
---Carl
by FreeBradshaw on Oct 25, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
For reasons I can't mention
I will watch the Yankees in their entirely, no interruptions.
Think Kevin Costner in Bull Durham about respecting a certain thing that doesn’t come around all that often, and if you mention it, it often goes away.
I will DVR the Giants game and watch it later.
I'll be at a bar...
…watching both.
If I wasn’t, it would be all Yankees, with occasional flips to the Giants at commercials.
A week 7 NFL game can’t compete with Game 6 of the ALCS.
by New York Sports Jerk on Oct 25, 2009 1:23 PM EDT reply actions
im not into football till the baseball seasons over.
after that GO STEELERS!!!
"I'm not superstitious, just a little stitious"- Michael Scott
The infusion of Giants Talk on This Yankees Blog
is largely responsible for me not reading it much anymore. Just a little feedback. I still really enjoy Jscape, but that’s about it.
probably Jets fan talk on the Mets site....
where it semi-belongs.
..."I predict...the Giants are #1"...
...."That's not a prediction meatman, that's a FACT OF LIFE"!.
---Carl
by FreeBradshaw on Oct 25, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Who has dish network ?? IF SO WATCH BOTH
Just use the PIP and if you don’t know how to do it
read this
im watching the yankees on my big tv and the giants on the tv im bringing downstairs from my room, but i will be paying more attention to the yankees because the yankee game is WAY bigger then the giants game. GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Yes we lost and yes we are upset. But like all Champs we will bounce back."
Osi umenyiora
by donnybaseball23 on Oct 25, 2009 4:38 PM EDT reply actions
Die Hard Giants fan....
but die hard Yanks fan.
I’ll be changing channels cuz I got no PIP…but def. Yanks first of course.
Its not the Giants vs. The Raiders type blowout potential, this could be another NFC Champ preview, the Cards are good again…but a preview is not over the real thing.
..."I predict...the Giants are #1"...
...."That's not a prediction meatman, that's a FACT OF LIFE"!.
---Carl
it won't be too tough to watch both
i’ll mostly stick to the Yankees, but i’ll be watching both simultaneously.
the real question is can anyone pull the PA/BBV double? i was thinking about taking live-blog nerdom to a whole new level.
by SBakerTheTouchdownMaker on Oct 25, 2009 5:04 PM EDT reply actions
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