First Round Playoff sked

[Frayed Knot]

Padres (5) @ Cubs (4): Tues 3:08; Wed 3:08; Thursday TBD

Reds (6) @ Dodgers (3): Tues 9:08; Wed 9:08; Thursday TBD

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Red Sox (5) @ Yanquis (4): Tue TBD; Wed TBD; Thu TBD

Tigers (6) @ Guardians (3): Tue TBD; Wed TBD; Thu TBD

All games one of the 56 ESPN platforms (check your bookie for time and channel in your area)

except for games #1 & #2 in Chicago which will ride on free TV via the ABC television network.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm done with baseball until Opening Day.

Oh well.

[stevejrogers]

Expect MFY-Red Sox to be promoted on the same historic level as the 03-04 ALCS!

[kcmets]

Baseball died for me today in 2025.

[Gwreck]

The AL games are 1:08 and 6:08 Eastern starts.

I’m not a television executive but it’s always been strange to me that there’s an insistence on playing games in the early afternoon. Sure, the Boston/Yabkees and Dodgers will be in primetime as they get the most eyes nationally. But it seems odd that they would really get a better TV audience for the other games by airing them at a time when no one is watching versus also showing them at 6 or 7 PM.

[Frayed Knot]

The AL games are 1:08 and 6:08 Eastern starts.

 

And once you know that it's predictably easy to figure out which game goes where.

DET @ CLE: 1:08 - ESPN

SDP @ CHC: 3:08 - ABC

BOS @ NYY: 6:08 - ESPN

CIN @ LAD: 9:08 - ESPN

(And the schedule would have been the exact same if it was NYM @ LAD)

They could never do this schedule prior to the speed-up rules era because when 9:08 came around the Yanx/Sawx game would have been in the top of the 6th.

I mean they still would have done it this way but the CIN/LAD game would get bumped to ESPN2 and stayed there until it was close to half over thereby ****ing

up anyone who didn't think ahead when setting their DVRs.

[Fman99]

I may inadvertently watch some of any game that's on in a public place I find myself over the next few weeks, but that's it. At home, no baseball. That time has passed for 2025.