Why is the deciding WCWS championship game at 3pm???

Not thrilled with the time either but I’ll just make 16 year old DS drive while I watch the game in the car. Should only be for the first 20 minutes.

murphdog said:

Not thrilled with the time either but I’ll just make 16 year old DS drive while I watch the game in the car. Should only be for the first 20 minutes.

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Might be safer for you to watch while YOU drive..

pattar said:

Might be safer for you to watch while YOU drive..

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It would be if 20 year old DD was the one driving.
DS drives all kinds of machinery at his agricultural high school, he’s actually a really good driver.

texasheat said:

OK this is an "if necessary game". There was a good chance that it would never be played. ESPN is not going to block off 3 hours of prime time for a game that may not occur. Schedules are made well in advance so there was no way around this for them.

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Yes it is an if necessary game but if I’m not mistaken they were supposed to have been played Mon-Wed not Tue-Thur but were delayed.


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Should have had it on ABC. Their programming is all pre-recorded and can be played anytime.
NBC is running hockey tonight, so a sport that doesn't appeal to EVERYONE is viable in primetime network TV.

marriard said:

Can't wait to hear this justification from the NCAA. You would think ESPN would want the game available to broadcast at 7pm like the other games.

You have a great game that rates well and you decide to play it when people will find it hard to watch it. Especially the more casual fan who only watches the tournament. It makes zero sense.

Same goes for the FSU game they decided should be played starting at midnight and finished after 3am. I am sure there were a lot of people in Florida who wanted to watch that game but couldn't.

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It was previously scheduled for Mon thru Wed. When the weather pushed the Sun games to Monday, it then pushed everything back a day.
The FSU game was played at midnight because they had to get all of the games played in order to keep the other games on schedule or else itd be pushed back even further than it currently is.

Everything is scheduled way in advance and there is alot of money at stake when they break their contract or have decreased viewers bc they dont show the program when it was originally slated.

Cougars said:

They had it blocked off, but it was blocked off for yesterday. When the weather pushed the second games on Sunday to Monday, it screwed up today

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well holy mackerel someone get a hold of Mother Nature

Northball said:

Should have had it on ABC. Their programming is all pre-recorded and can be played anytime.
NBC is running hockey tonight, so a sport that doesn't appeal to EVERYONE is viable in primetime network TV.

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+1000

should be on ABC. nothing there that cannot be pushed. advertising for championship series was also sold as being in prime time I bet. all these contracts have all sorts of contigency clauses. no reason not to have this, deciding game, on national broadcast TV.

bmakj said:

+1000

should be on ABC. nothing there that cannot be pushed. advertising for championship series was also sold as being in prime time I bet. all these contracts have all sorts of contigency clauses. no reason not to have this, deciding game, on national broadcast TV.

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So you don’t think that if they thought they could make more they would be doing this? I highly doubt they are doing it to purposely screw fastpitch...everyone here is biased Now it is certainly possible that their analysis of the situAtion is wrong but that would be an honest mistake...

pattar said:

So you don’t think that if they thought they could make more they would be doing this? I highly doubt they are doing it to purposely screw fastpitch...everyone here is biased Now it is certainly possible that their analysis of the situAtion is wrong but that would be an honest mistake...

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I think the "decision" is probably driven mostly by ignorance. these decisions are not made by sports people, but by executives looking at tons of numbers (mostly male). simply an ignorance of what is really going to draw more viewers on a thursday night in June. Practically no one would make watching whatever ABC is running between 8 and 10 "must see TV". a large portion of the softball community would absolutely make this the most watched softball game in history most likely, mever mind eclipsing whatever is going to run on ABC.

hell, you want buzz, feel good publicity, etc. put it on the U and stream free on internet simultaneously. GUARANTEED more viewership than whatever crap is on ABC, and likely the NBA games on ESPN as well.

ESPN needs to be run by sports people, not Disney execs (long history of LCD decision making).