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    Why is the ALCS starting Sunday and the NLCS starting Monday?

    Why is the ALCS starting Saturday and the NLCS starting Sunday?
    Was this set prior to the beginning of the ALDS and the NLDS? Or was MLB waiting, while looking at travel issues/concerns and chose to begin the one league championship series on Sunday which would have the least travel implications?
    Last edited by BiZmaRK; 10-13-2012, 07:44 PM.
    Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

    An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

    Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.
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  • #2
    The ALCS is on right now (10:30 Saturday).
    If I had only spent a tenth of the time studying Physics that I spent learning Star Wars and Baseball trivia, I would have won the Nobel Prize.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Allie Fox View Post
      The ALCS is on right now (10:30 Saturday).
      My bad; I was off by one day. I'll edit the OP.
      Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

      An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

      Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.

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      • #4
        I thought the same thing. No off days between series' (at least for the Yankees or O's) didn't seem fair for the teams with the better records'. But who am I to argue with the infinite wisdom of the scheduling department of the Office of the Commissioner.
        If I had only spent a tenth of the time studying Physics that I spent learning Star Wars and Baseball trivia, I would have won the Nobel Prize.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Allie Fox View Post
          I thought the same thing. No off days between series' (at least for the Yankees or O's) didn't seem fair for the teams with the better records'. But who am I to argue with the infinite wisdom of the scheduling department of the Office of the Commissioner.
          When was it announced that the ALCS would start Saturday & the NLCS would start Sunday? It couldn't have been as early as prior to the ALDS & NLDS starting, as what would have happened had each NLDS gone 3 games and each ALDS gone 5 games? Perhaps MLB arrived at their decision upon the Giants beating the Reds on Thursday. Had the NLCS started Saturday, either the Giants would have had to travel to Washington from Cincinnati (where they were supposedly waiting for the NLDS to be decided) or the Cardinals & Giants would both have had to travel cross-country and play the next day. Of course, MLB could have mandated that the Giants either travel to Washington or back to San Francisco upon their victory in game 5. In the AL, Detroit merely had to prepare to travel to New York - unless the Orioles won game 5.
          Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

          An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

          Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.

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          • #6
            No, the LCS dates were locked in before the regular season ended.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Pere View Post
              No, the LCS dates were locked in before the regular season ended.
              So if the Giants swept the Reds and the Cardinals swept the Nationals with each ALDS going 5 games, you're saying the ALCS would still have started a day earlier than the NLCS.
              Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

              An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

              Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.

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              • #8
                That's how it was announced Sept. 17, yeah. Remember that the two LCS are separately contracted to TBS and Fox (Fox gets one LCS with the World Series each year), so the scheduling of a bunch of other programming is planned around the baseball postseason. And Game 1 of each series is generally seen as a key broadcast.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Pere View Post
                  That's how it was announced Sept. 17, yeah. Remember that the two LCS are separately contracted to TBS and Fox (Fox gets one LCS with the World Series each year), so the scheduling of a bunch of other programming is planned around the baseball postseason. And Game 1 of each series is generally seen as a key broadcast.
                  Was NLCS game #1 contracted to a network any differently than ALCS game #1?
                  Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

                  An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

                  Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.

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                  • #10
                    I want to know why the Giants were stupid enough not to go straight home after they won rather than sitting around a day and a half, including boarding a plane for Washington at one point, rather than just go home and enjoy the day and a half off and travel to wherever you needed to travel to as the case would be. As it was, they get to San Francisco in the middle of the night Friday/Saturday. http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseb...1596a9aaa.html

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                    • #11
                      Because if they would have flown back to San Fran and Washington had won, they would have to fly back across the country. That affects the body...
                      Mike Hopper
                      Former Gateway Grizzlies Intern

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                      • #12
                        I figured that was the theory. But I would rather get normal sleep, and sleep at home with the comforts of home, than to try to save a few hours in the air. Sure, in the wagon train days you would not go from Cincinnati to San Francisco and then back to Washington, ... but in the days of air travel, it shouldn't matter that much.

                        Originally posted by Bulldog19 View Post
                        Because if they would have flown back to San Fran and Washington had won, they would have to fly back across the country. That affects the body...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Brownieand45sfan View Post
                          I figured that was the theory. But I would rather get normal sleep, and sleep at home with the comforts of home, than to try to save a few hours in the air. Sure, in the wagon train days you would not go from Cincinnati to San Francisco and then back to Washington, ... but in the days of air travel, it shouldn't matter that much.
                          Yes, it affects the body, but the main reason is
                          players are entitle to a day off if they cross 2 time zones
                          as explain above,if they went home to SF than to WAS= a day off (sat)

                          and the NLCS started on SAT,and could only be change due to mother nature

                          according to the MLB Players Association basic aggreement (union contract)
                          article 5 section C
                          (10) To the extent reasonably practicable, open days shall be
                          nontravel days, except as permitted in paragraph (11), below.
                          (11) An open day shall be scheduled for or following travel from
                          cities in the Pacific time zone to cities in the Eastern time zone
                          except that the Commissioner may schedule not more than seven (7)
                          games per championship season in each League with a starting time
                          after 7 P.M. in the Eastern time zone which include a Club that the
                          day before played a game scheduled to start prior to 5 P.M. in the
                          Pacific time zone. In any championship season, however, no Club
                          may be scheduled to play more than one (1) game in the Eastern
                          time zone the day after it has played a game in the Pacific time zone.
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                          • #14
                            No one has answered whether the ALCS still would have still started a day earlier than the NLCS had each NLCS gone just 3 games and each ALCS went a full 5 games.
                            Holding a pitcher accountable for how many runs his team scores is like holding the designated hitter accountable for how many runs his team allows.

                            An individual statistic is meaningful only if it is based strictly on what the player does and not on what the other players on his team do.

                            Contrary to what most baseball fans claim, a pitched ball which is hit into play is not a strike.

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                            • #15
                              I thought I had. Yes. The starting dates were set in September. Nothing that happened in the DS could have affected the the starts of the LCS, short of multiple rainouts that left a DS still unfinished on the day the corresponding LCS was set to start.

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