Sports Radio AM1130 WDFN out of Detroit announced Thursday afternoon that Major League Baseball has decided to push Game 3 of the Tigers-A’s series up from 8:15pm ET to 4:15pm ET Friday.
Officials for the MLB said the change was because of bad weather in the forecast for Friday night in Detroit.
I realize that with Cory Lidle dying in the tragic plane accident yesterday that the MLB may want to make this game a nationally televised event. Maybe the league is planning to do something special in New York to honor Lidle.
If the league doesn’t honor Lidle, however, and this was just a ploy for ratings (which isn’t that far-fetched considering the ’06 playoffs have produced a record low audience thus far), this move should be definitely criticized.
I’ll hold off judgment until I see what the MLB is planning, but for now, I question why the game was moved at all considering both Detroit and New York could both possibly face bad weather come Friday night.
Why move just the Detroit game out of prime time if you’re worried about bad weather?
