Take Me Out Of The Ball Game
Oct. 11th, 2002 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindMany people consider baseball, the "Great American Pastime", an entirely pointless endeavor.
I disagree.
Baseball does have one purpose:
It exists to pre-empt Science Fiction programs.
Since the 1970s, when baseball would pre-empt weekend reruns of Star Trek on KTLA in Los Angeles, to this very evening, when Fox ran a night game that wiped both Firefly and John Doe right off the map, the shows I wanted to watch invariably played second fiddle to a bunch of guys standing around playing catch.
Why don't they schedule games on nights when shows like Friends or Everybody Loves Raymond or Survivor?
Hell, maybe they do. I'd never know.
I disagree.
Baseball does have one purpose:
It exists to pre-empt Science Fiction programs.
Since the 1970s, when baseball would pre-empt weekend reruns of Star Trek on KTLA in Los Angeles, to this very evening, when Fox ran a night game that wiped both Firefly and John Doe right off the map, the shows I wanted to watch invariably played second fiddle to a bunch of guys standing around playing catch.
Why don't they schedule games on nights when shows like Friends or Everybody Loves Raymond or Survivor?
Hell, maybe they do. I'd never know.
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With luck, the Last World Series will be in 2011
Date: 2002-10-11 10:21 pm (UTC)Well, the simple reason is this, of course. Because even today, with successes like X-Files, ST: TNG, and other such shows, television SF is still the poor country cousin and shows about comedians with spouses that yell at them for 30 minutes are still the cash cows.
Or something like that. I'm mixing metaphors.