>>>Whoever did the schedule - either the baseball guys or Fox - should really have looked at TV guide or something. It is my understanding tonight is game 5 of the World Series - and it is on opposite Monday Night Football - Colts and Texans.
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>>>Somebody really should have looked at that and said - hey, how about Tuesday? Tuesday good for you ?
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>>Interesting how perspective may vary depending on which sports you prefer. I don't know exactly when the World Series schedule is published, but assuming that it is set at the beginning of the season why can't football say
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>>"This is World Series week. Why don't we schedule all our games for Sunday and leave the rest of the week to baseball?"
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>Didn't they used to skip the weekly NFL night game when the World Series was going on? And not many years ago, either. Maybe that changed when football went from just Monday Night Football to featured games both Sunday and Monday night.
TV networks and ad buyers aren't looking at this as fans. The are counting eyeballs on the sets and ad dollars. Simple math says don't schedule baseball opposite football if you want to get max dollars out of baseball.
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