Word: postseasons
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...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...
...year for the Crimson, which means a renewed battle for the starting spot in net. For most of last season, then-sophomore Brittany Martin and then-freshman Christina Kessler split time in goal and posted equally impressive numbers. However, Martin earned the starting job for the postseason, capping off the year with a 67-save effort in a quadruple-overtime loss to Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. In this weekend’s exhibition, Kessler and Martin were given the Friday and Saturday night starts, respectively, to simulate real-game situations. McGill snuck one goal...
...another milepost in an improbable finish that began in September's long shadows. Since then, the rockin' Rocks, who finished in the division cellar last season, have ripped off 21 wins in 22 games--a heart-pounding joyride that included a sudden-death victory just to get into postseason play, as well as playoff sweeps of the powerful Philadelphia Phillies and the lethargic Diamondbacks...