The Cardinals opened the NL division series at Arizona on Tuesday night. The game began after 10 p.m. CDT, making it hard for many local fans to watch.
"To say I'm sorry is the understatement of the year," Selig told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday. "You can't imagine how badly I feel. The team fights all year to get into first place and this was not good."
The game started so late because the television networks that show the playoffs, along with baseball officials, do not want to have two games on at the same time.
There were three games Tuesday, and two were out West, complicating the broadcast schedule.
"Our people had pored over this for hundreds of hours with the networks," Selig said. "It's a very tough situation, one where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."
Selig, however, said he has ordered that there will be no more repeat performances.
"I told our people, "No more 10 p.m. starts,' " Selig said. "That's the end of it."
Good thing my Golden can tell time , I told her she better not wake me at 4 like she has been doing for the last few weeks. Told her not until at least 7:30 and that's the exact time she did. (She has done it several times before.) Then we went back to sleep for a few more hours.
So three years later nothing has changed.
The Cards play two day games at home then go to the left coast and play a late night game.
A big part of it is the East coast bias. ESPN = Eastern Seaboard Promoting Network or Eastern Seaboard Pandering Network. And I ain't pleased with Fox either for several reasons.