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From: ewf@ihuxr.UUCP (Gene Foster)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Night Games at Wrigley:  No Need for Them
Message-ID: <1177@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 13:07:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 13:07:41 1984
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There is really no need for all this fuss about night games at
Wrigley.  For the NL and AL playoffs, one game is during the
day and the other at night anyway.  All you have to do is schedule
the NL game during the day when it is played at Wrigley.  Also,
on weekends all playoff games are usually during the day, hence
schedule the Cub home playoff games for a weekend.
Likewise for the World Series and schedule the games such that
weekend play occurs at Wrigley.  This could still result in a
couple games that must be played during the day that otherwise
would have been played at night, but this should not be that big of
a deal.  After all, MLB gets revenues from the networks based on
the contract that was signed last year regardless of the Cubs being
in the playoffs/series.  The networks knew that this might happen
and are now complaining about a contract they had agreed to.
But anyway, with creative scheduling much of the problem can be avoided.
gene foster
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