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In about two-and-a-half hours, the 2007 Major League Baseball postseason will begin. As you know, all games will be on TBS, which is why we have strange start times like 3 p.m. ET and 6:30 p.m. ET. We thought this would be a problem. But TBS is off to a good start.
The Rockies-Padres tiebreaker game ran 4 hours, 41 minutes, and though that was an extreme case, postseason games traditionally run much longer than regular season games. But TBS has allotted only 3 1/2 hours between games. Fortunately, they're going the Fox Family Channel route: The games will shift to TNT if there is spillover. Thank heavens for corporate synergy!
We're still not sure how this whole TBS thing is gonna work, but they're covering their bases in one regard. We had been concerned about that.
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But...but...then I won't get to see the end of Law & Order!
Oh, so I actually get to see the games in HD if there is a "spillover?"
Where do I sign?
Not too long ago, TBS would have had the games start at 6:35 and 3:05.
If only NBC had a sister channel, maybe on cable, that could show the end of NHL playoff games when the Mothership wants to show horses running and turning right.
Since they're on TBS, shouldn't each game begin at 3:05 and 6:35?
@Gordon Bombay: Damn.
What a great idea. Now you won't miss a minute of the Cardinals playing post-season baseball. Oh, wait...
I wish my MLB.tv account would let me watch Rockies/Phillies in class.
My Family Guy re-run night is now f*cked.. curses!
When will they show the Full House reruns?
@Barry White Stripes, Office Left Winger:
They only turn right south of of the equater.
This makes sense. You gotta save room for Everybody Loves Raymond and Sandra Bullock movies aren't going to watch themselves.
Ted Turner is a Jerkoff
I can't wait for the three hundred episodes of "My Boys" otherwise known as "Cheap, even crappier version of Sex and the City"
Bottoms of the ninth are overrated. And on the next episode of "My Boys"...
Thank god its 6:30 PM and not AM, because I would go nuts without my Saved By the Bell. Unless its the one season with the dyke. They can play over those.
TBS and TNT are both HD and they're both offered by every cable/satellite company I've ever heard of. No problems here.
Damn - I was hoping for animated spillover on The Cartoon Network.
@Lady Andrea: For my part, I will lamely follow along on Gamecast in my office...
Yuppie Question Alert: For anyone with Cablevision in the NYC area (I'm thinking Iracane), my TiVo said TBSHD was just added to the lineup, but I can't find it. Does anyone know the secret code to enter in the remote, or is my TiVo lying to me?
Thanks. And pass the half-and-half please.
@jwaves: What's an "equater"?
Is that a horse version of "equator"?
@Unsilent Majority: Except for that small one called "Time Warner."
Those announcers suck. At least the ones Monday night did. It better improve.
@Barry White Stripes, Office Left Winger: If horses turned right while racing, the'd be trampling touts in the grandstand, as they run counterclockwise.
Gotcha!
The real thanks should go to Teddy K.
Thanks, Teddy K.
@thetaxman: I remember "Turner Time."
@McCroskey: Trevor Hoffman agrees
@Sarge: I have TBS HD with Comcast. They launched it earlier this week.
...dick joke?
@MitchKayak: I like My Boys. Comparing it to Sex in the City is not accurate.
I'm not following why these start times are not a problem, nor why the fact that TBS is televising them means that they have to be shown at a time when noone who doesn't take the day off can watch them.
They should switch to the TNT announcers if/when they switch.
This call to the bullpen brought to you by Jesse and The Rippers!
@HeavyPettingZoo: Yeah, it's not bad. And I agree, it's not supposed to be a SITC knockoff.
@LeNoceur:
Don't worry. They'll show if after The Shawshank Redemption.
I should have just skipped all my classes today. I am completely worthless right now, and cracking open an Evidence casebook couldn't be further down my list of priorities at the moment.
Still haven't figured out how I'm getting out of work by 3 for the Phightin's game. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
@The Gentleman Masher: So was I. With Master Shake in the booth.
"What the #### is a Joba? I'm bored. SHOW ME SOME SEX! I COMMAND IT!"
One of the benefits of working in a newsroom -- there's never a shortage of TVs in there. One can be sacrificed for the good of baseball this afternoon and evening.
@G Voll the Mole: I have Time Warner and TBS is in HD. I've watched Minding the Store on it many a time. Shit.
@Carmen McFanzone: Would you rather listen to Berman/Sutcliffe? Are you super pumped for Buck/McCarver?
In a show of corporate synergy, Nancy Grace will be blasting Brett Myers as a wife beater who should be in prison during her hour long show on CNN Headline News.
Having an MLB playoff game at 3 p.m. in the east and noon in the west on a weekday? Sounds perfectly fine to me.
@ArkansasFred: Normally I'd never suggest phoning in a bomb threat, but this is the playoffs...
@OchentaYcinco: I work for the House of Representatives. Probably not a great idea.
@Signal to Noise: in mine, there's never a shortage of TVs with CSPAN on
@Unsilent Majority: color me jealous
It better not spill over into "Murder at 1600," that's my quality Diane Lane time.
@HeavyPettingZoo: Agreed. My Boys has Jim Gaffigan on it - that alone makes it at least somewhat worthwhile.
@Dave Ryan: That? Would be priceless.
@public enemy #1: It feels like to me. Maybe the five minutes I watched weren't accurate.
This probably is not the forum to discuss this. Thankfully.
@Cousins of Ron Mexico: Then perhaps Time Warner just hates Manhattan. I call bias against the northeast, godamnit!
@HeavyPettingZoo: I really like My Boys too. Adore Jim Gaffigan in it. Uno mas!
@Matt_T: Yessss!!!!
@ArkansasFred: Then you should have no problem leaving the office early while there is more work to be done.
My Boys is about an attractive woman. Sex and the City is about a horse. Big difference.