Word: postseason
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...dyed-in-the-wool Red Sox fan, the other a Bronx bomber since birth; when it comes to Major League Baseball, we don’t agree on much. During the postseason, metaphorical fists fly as we gloat over our respective teams’ accomplishments and argue over who is the more valuable player: Mike Lowell or Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle or Teddy Ballgame. But there is one thing we can agree on; we both nominate Manny Ramirez and Jonathan Papelbon for 2008 Class Day Speakers...
...offense awoke in the second half, ending the game with four unanswered goals. Although the Crimson has shown the ability to go toe-to-toe with anyone in the pool, its glaring weakness has been slow first-half starts. To prevent this from happening in the postseason, Harvard has adjusted its pre-game preparations. “We spent a whole practice working on our warm-up so we would all be ready to go as soon as the game started,” junior David Tune said. Because a victory on Saturday will clinch a spot in the Eastern...
...baseball playoffs. But, really, who has time to watch a whole baseball game nowadays? Especially as national networks take over for playoff broadcasts, games are getting so long that they rarely end on the same day they began. Major League Baseball should be happy that its postseason can inspire solidarity among even casual observers (the cons of the “bandwagon” aside). But when fandom requires such a time commitment, it scares all but the truly obsessed away from bonding over a game...
...with the Superbowl, national networks now view baseball’s postseason as a goldmine for advertisement revenue. Between every half-inning and during every pitching change, there is now a commercial break of at least a few minutes. When there is a lot of money to be made (as in October), that means squeezing in, say, one extra minute of ads per break. The problem is that this squeezes at least 20 extra minutes into the baseball game...
...means a Bartley’s burger named for Manny Ramirez, Boston’s beloved and spacy slugger who, by the way, is batting nearly .500 for the 2007 postseason...