A White Sox vs Astros World Series…stranger things have happened I suppose. And while I’m happy for all my friends who are Astros fans I want them all, once the euphoria settles to a managable level, to take a look at the calendar. That’s right…the World Series won’t start until October 22nd.<\/p>\n
That’s most decidedly not Scottish<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n That fact that this is crap is not a reflection on the teams that are playing this year: it’s a problem with baseball itself. The World Series should over by now. In his hey-day with the Yankees Reggie Jackson’s nickname was Mr. October, not Mr. Early-November. I blame this all on Ronald Reagan (“why?” you may ask. “Why not?”, I reply.)<\/p>\n The Baseball Almanac lists the outcome of every World Series match up thus far in a handy chart<\/a>. You have to dig deep but what you find is that, on average, pre-1981 the World Series started around October 10th and was over around October 21st. We keep going the way we’ve been going we’ll start a new American tradition: fighting over what the men in the family watch on Thanksgiving instead of helping out with dinner: the Dallas Cowboys beat up the Redskins or the last game of the World Series.<\/p>\n I propose a reform: <\/p>\n Oh, and could we quit the bullshit, back to back weekend scheduling of teams while we’re at it? And lets at least think about going back to two divisions, eh?<\/p>\n\n