Thread: Could We be Seeing a World Series Game...In the DAYTIME!!!

Check this out from Neil Best's Watchdog blog from Newsday. You see a transcript of an interview that Chris Russo did with Ed Goren with Fox Sports. Just read it and it seems a bit eye opening.


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Originally Posted by Mets82

Check this out from Neil Best's Watchdog blog from Newsday. You see a transcript of an interview that Chris Russo did with Ed Goren with Fox Sports. Just read it and it seems a bit eye opening.


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I saw a day game in the WS once before, I believe it was like ' 72

Excellent article !

When WAS the last non-night Fall Classic game?

Couldn't make heads or tails of the interview, kinda scattershot.

With that said, don't hold your breath for a daytime World Series. MLB isn't going to reduce rights fees or lose eyeballs to play games in daylight, FOX despite what Goren says make money plus uses the World Series as a promotion vehicle for it's other shows.
Were more likely to see the World Series move to cable then move to daytime.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

When WAS the last non-night Fall Classic game?

Quick GOOG search shows 1984 World Series Game 5 (outdoors) or 1987 World Series Game 6 (indoors).

so it's been awhile...

I wouldn't hold my breath on any WS day games. It would be pointless to play any games in the afternoon on weekdays because nobody would be watching. That just leaves Sat and Sun. The problem is that Sat afternoons are for college football and the WS would suffer more competing against many afternoon football games instead of a few evening games. Plus FOX only shows crap like COPS on Sat nights so the ratings for those shows would not go up if they had a WS game as a lead in.

That leaves Sun as a possibility. Problem there is the NFL. Right now FOX gets a doubleheader of NFL games leading into the WS, AND NBC doesn't run SNF opposite the WS. If you moved the WS into the afternoon you would have to go up against a doubleheader on CBS. FOX would really be kicking themselves if they moved a WS game into the afternoon and the Red Sox or Yankees were in the WS. When those teams make the WS you want the games in primetime.

The most likely change would be FOX moving the games up to say 7 or 7:30 instead of 8:30. That way you would not have so many games running past midnight when the east coast audience dozes off.

Any of you old enough to remember the 60s and 70s, with multiple day games in the Fall Classic?

WS in daytime = bad for TV rating and MLB Corp.
That's why they have the World Series on Prime Time.

Baseball is not the prime sports in the US like Football/Basketball.
That is the reason they will be having WS during night times.