If the games started here at 5:30 I'd love it. I'd get to listen to some of it on the radio on the way home or it would be starting right as I get home. You could watch it during dinner and when it finished it would still be prime time and I could watch a show and get to go to bed knowing who the winner was. How does starting games at 5ish PST hurt the west coast? It's as simple as this. They get to watch all the games and we don't. I don't know what we did to become baseball's second class citizens but it happened. So i will support leagues whose games I actually get to watch. If they can get away with this the next thing that will happen will be 10pm Super Bowls. And then 11pm Super Bowls. If they can get the Hawaii audience by screwing us and we all watch anyway they'll do that too. And then maybe it'll be "But Hawaiians are people too." No they aren't. No they aren't I say.
again, im glad it would work out for YOU, but that doesn't give you the right to arbitrary decided that California has to lose their 7pm games, which have been the traditional start times of baseball games since i can remember, which are super covenant, to appease you on a personal level.
right now, i get off work at 5PM. i have things to do after work, im not ussaly in the house until 6:30ish, so the 7 oclock starts are great. why, if i lived out west, should i be expected to miss an hour and a half of the game for your personal satisfaction? not everyone works the same hours, my roomate doesn't get home till 7 ish, it would be even worse for him.
Personally, it would benefit my viewing schedule greatly this year if no NFL games started before 4PM, since i have a little brother in pop warner and he plays 1:30-3:30, but that doesn't mean i'm going to get all uppity and demand that all Football games start at 4PM or i'll do some kind of boycott because I'm inconvenienced. plenty of people, (including me when pop warner isn't going on) love the one oclocks.
It's incredibly self centered, and down right Anti-butu (new word alert 
) to put yourself on some kind of pedistal and demand the world change for your personal satisfaction.
I don't remember lots of traditional 10pm start times. And other posters are right. The late start times are seeping into games with two teams on the east coast. We get 9pm start times for teams in the East and Central. What the heck is traditional about that?
as was brought up sevral post ago, thats a diffrent issue that fox does in the ALCS with tryign to shift both games into primetime, that i could be with you on, and posted as such. those games should start at 7 in the time zone they are located in, just as they do in the AL/NLDS.
10PM isn't the games start time. They are starting at 7PM, the traditional start time since i can remeber, as i said. It sucks that There's a three hour time diffreance, but in CAL, those games are starting at the traditional start time of 7PM. Thier game last night ended at 10:11, the time most of our games get over all year when they start at 7.
Again, you've yet to prove to me why we should be in favor of screwing with thier start times because they happen to have a geographical time change involved. "how would they like it!!!" is an irrelvant argument, as it still places a higher value on our happiness over thier right to have the same start times as they did all season.
I.E "were better than you are, suck it up and play your games when WE want YOU to. It's more important you conform to our schedule than you do to ours"
Thats a self centered attitude, anyway you slice it.
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