God mlb is stupid. I honestly don't care if it is their decision or Fox/TBS fighting it out to force them to put certain games in the afternoon, the fact that in a world of a billion channels and almost unlimited access to content, that they are doing this is so effing bush league. It is goddamn 2016 and they are operating like it is 1985.
Could you honestly imagine if any other major professional sport did this?
I'm so tired of the BS excuses about ratings and business. Nobody will watch an afternoon game. Lots of people will watch an evening game. I ####ing guarantee that two primetime games will have more combined ratings than one afternoon and one evening. Baseball fans who just want to watch what's on will watch anyway and won't care if both games are in primetime. They may be baseball fans but they are also fans of having jobs and nobody has time to watch a 2pm game on a friggin tuesday. Team specific fans aren't gonna tune into a primtime game between two teams they don't care about so punishing them in hopes they watch some crappy matchup is totally irrelevant.
Seriously mlb, #### you.
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