Wednesday, October 26, 2005

 

Longer than there've been fishes in the oceans

Six hours into the broadcast -- reflecting Fox's ridiculously unrealistic 3-hour time slot plus the maximum 3 hours of TiVo padding, it was the top of the 14th...



The good news is that I had caught up to the live broadcast at 10:30, and set a manual recording for 11:00 until -- well, just in case, I set it to go until, well, about the time the morning news was going to start. So I was a little disappointed that it was "only" 11:20 when the game actually ended. But I have to assume I was one of a very select few not in Houston or Chicago who actually saw the game from beginning to end, although it's admittedly a lot easier to sit through 14 innings of baseball when you can fast-forward through the commercials...



That Chicago Sun-Times "Market Wrap" edition isn't looking like such a silly idea now, is it, Levi? That might be the only way for Chicagoans to get the box score of this game in their newspaper tomorrow -- uh, I mean today.

Hey, speaking of silly ideas, where was Aaron Neville in the middle of the 14th to sing the real song? Actually, Bud Selig probably would have insisted on a reprise of "God Bless America" for no good reason.

On a TV note: since I grew up in the Eastern time zone, I'm used to sporting events that run long being followed by the local affiliate's 11:00 or 10:00 news in its entirety, whether it's at 12:00, 12:30, or even later. Therefore, I was a little surprised to discover that Fox's flagship station in Los Angeles must have their entire 10:00 news crew home, because when the coverage of the game ended, they went straight to their regularly scheduled 11:30 "Simpsons" rerun.

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Comments:
Actually, Jim, I think everyone not in Houston or Chicago tuned out when they saw Michael McDonald take the field to sing "The Heart of America" before the game.

And did you notice how much Joe Buck enjoyed talking about "tonight's Game 4" after midnight?

And that Barbara Bush (and Neal) had left by the 11th?
 
This'll teach me to make fun of the Sun-Times: the Los Angeles Times didn't have the box score this morning, at least in the Valley Edition. They did have the "how they scored" summary, though. Must have been taking too long to add up all the numbers that go into the box score.
 
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