The sun was peeking through clouds by 5:30. Sure the game would've gone off late...but that's fine - who really cares about the Nats or Dodgers outside of DC and LA?

But rather than put two NL games on at once tonight, MLB would rather have Nats/Dodgers game 2 start at 1pm on an October Sunday, head-to-head with the NFL. I and many would argue that's the absolute worst place to put a playoff baseball game. And we'd be right.

It's funny really - in trying to protect its advertisers and deliver the largest audience possible, MLB will actually end up hindering Its national audience potential a great deal - they must really think folks will watch them instead of football, and more specifically must think that local markets will pick them over the Redskins in DC or will tune in promptly at 10am in LA.

Speaking from a selfish point of view, this stacks the deck against us in a big way - now the Nats must win not only Game 2 but also Game 3 only 12 hours after the conclusion of their last game and after having traveled directly across the country. Both teams will be weary - so wouldn't the home team possess what little edge there is to have?

This is horse shit.