To this point, the playoffs have been fairly boring. Three sweeps in the NL, seven total ALDS games, and an ALCS that could end in 5. The best game over the past three weeks was probably the Wild Card tiebreaker between the Rockies and Padres, which isn't even technically a playoff game.Coincidentally, this is also TBS' first year of broadcasting playoff baseball. It's not going so well- the NLCS got worse ratings than the final Little League World Series game.
Amazingly, the biggest ratings disaster of the postseason may be still to come. Tonight, the Indians try to clinch the AL Pennant in Game 5 against the Red Sox. With Beckett pitching for the Sox, they're favored to win. You can be sure that's what the people at FOX are rooting for. Regardless of how long the series goes, the World Series won't start until next Wednesday. That means if the Indians win tonight, there will be five days with no baseball before the World Series begins.
A Red Sox-Rockies WS would probably get better ratings than Indians-Rockies, so there's also that factor. Last year, the Series got a 10.1 rating, which edged out '01 and '05 as the lowest ever. A Rockies-Indians World Series after a five-day layoff would likely do even worse than that. Maybe that would cause FOX to reconsider this ridiculous, unnecessary off-day between Games 4 and 5 of the ALCS.
Photo: Over the Monster.
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They would just have to make a rule where only teams from the Eastern divisions are allowed to make the World Series.
If it's Indians-Rockies, this would mark the third straight year with teams from the mid-west in the World Series.
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