I agree the times could be better, but they want everyone to be able to see every game. TBS has the rights and only one station so to play 3 games in one day they have to be all day long.

Don’t act like we got screwed. We play one afternoon game and so does MIL/PHI. There were really no other options. They can’t put the Cubs on in the afternoon b/c all the other games are east coast games. That means first pitch wouldn’t be until 9:30pm EST. Then we would have more complainers saying its too late to take their kids to the games. MLB was as fair as they could be here.

If you were a real Rays fan you would take a day or half day off at least fake sick

I actually had a chance at going to Friday’s game if it were later!!! I can’t get out of Tallahassee until Friday morning because of a god damn physics exam and now I have no chance of getting to the game.

FUCK YOU MLB

2:30 on a Thursday?? I guess if there are some who can’t make it others will say, well they don’t deserve a team cause they couldn’t make it due to work demands. I hope we go deep in the playoffs so MLB will have to suffer putting us on primetime!!!

IDC about the Friday one but Thursday. Cmon. Now I have to skip a class.

Now I have to scramble and clear an already busy calendar.

I’m going to go on Craigslist just so Stubhub and MLB don’t get a fucking dime off me having to resell my tickets.

I do not want to hear from one person that St. Pete doesn’t deserve this team. Find a way to go. This is our first playoff game EVER. Take a sick day, skip school, steal a car whatever you have to do. In case you guys haven’t figured out yet the deck has been stacked against us from the beginning and we have rose above it all time and again. This is just one more aspect of the story we will tell our kids someday. One more avenue of how we got “screwed” and it didn’t matter because we won the game, the series, the championship. Living in Orlando I would have had to take two half days to get out there and get a good night sleep after the game. Now I can just take that day off and head out the night before. You do what you have to do to be there, but you better be there because it is history in the making.

Are something we’re gonna need more of.

You guys will be saying the same thing when you’re playing at 9 PM in Boston, all of your boys from Florida start shivering…

Makes sense.

God bless the increasingly dumb MLB TV contracts. The short-term buck always comes first. Choosing horrid FOX over the other broadcast networks was the first of many “interesting” decisions leading up to this point.

Ill buy them off you. please. im desperate.
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It sucks for the working person with an inflexible schedule. (Fortunately, my boss is understanding and told me to go ahead and take half a day as a “religious holiday.”) It sucks for kids who don’t get out of school early enough and don’t have parents who will spring them early (or who might be having a test they can’t miss). And as someone who works in downtown St. Pete, I really wonder how bad the parking situation will be. I know the city will be running shuttles, but a good bit of space in the parking garages is taken up by working people during the day. And those streets nearer to the Trop where you can park without a time limit after 6 pm…like around our building…well, won’t work for a 2:30 pm game unless you want a $25 ticket.

all the ALCS games will be at night after you dispatch the survivor of the AL Central.

You are 100% correct about MLB caring more about ratings than anything else. Baseball is a game. A great game that we all love. Unfortunately MLB is a business and they are going to do what is best for the business.

For those of you who have tickets to this game: Work on a really good excuse to get out of work.

For those of you who have kids: They can miss a day of school.

There is nothing like playoff baseball. The opportunity to be at the first playoff game in your franchises history is one that can’t be passed on.

I am looking forward to watching playoff baseball and I am looking forward to seeing what the Rays can do in the playoffs.

best of luck to you guys in the postseason.

What a crock!!! I’m glad I’m on vacation this week, otherwise I would’ve missed the game.

What about the people who won’t even get to watch the game on TV because they are at school or work?!?! What a bunch of garbage. Absolute garbage. The home team should be incharge of scheduling their games and if the TV networks want to pick it up, then fine, let them. Otherwise, they can miss out, not the hundreds of thousands of people that have waited 10 years for this day to come.