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October 28, 2007
BY JIM DONALDSON
Journal Sports Writer
DENVER -- It’s a beautiful day here -- the skies clear blue, the snow-capped, Rocky Mountains seemingly within walking distance at the western end of the downtown streets, temperatures warm enough to wear a golf shirt.
If ever an argument could be made to once again play World Series games in the daylight hours, this afternoon would clinch it.
But, instead of seeing Jon Lester on the mound as the shadows start to slip across Coors Field shortly after four o’clock, the Rockies are taking batting practice.
The Red Sox, too, have just come out on the field and are jogging near the warning track in left, loosening up for tonight’s Game Four.
They run out of shadow, into the sunlight, bringing to mind Yogi Berra’s famous line about playing left field in Yankee Stadium: “It gets late early out there.”
World Series games extend much too late into the night, and there is nothing to be done about it.
As long as MLB wants to glean every dollar it can from the networks, then it must play games when it’s best for television – even if that’s not what’s best for the sport, or its devoted fans.
And so baseball cedes this lovely afternoon – a true Fall Classic – to the NFL, and will wait until the sun dips below the Rockies to begin to play.
New England schoolchildren who hope to stay up to celebrate with the Sox if they complete a sweep of the Rockies will be falling asleep at their desks tomorrow.
But, if they’re dreaming of the World Series, is that really so bad?
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