MLB pushes back World Series Game 6 by 8 minutes

Source: AP/Yahoo

MLB pushes back World Series Game 6 by 8 minutes
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Buzz Up PrintNEW YORK (AP)—Major League Baseball has agreed to push back the start time of a potential World Series Game 6 by eight minutes to allow Democrat Barack Obama to purchase a half-hour of air time on the Fox network.

Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney said Thursday that the game time would now be set for 8:35 p.m.

The Obama presidential campaign said Oct. 9 that it had bought the 8-8:30 p.m slot on CBS and NBC.

“Fox will accommodate Senator Obama’s desire to communicate with voters in this long-form format,” network spokesman Lou D’Ermilio said in a statement. “We are pleased that Major League Baseball has agreed to delay the first pitch of World Series Game 6 for a few minutes in order for Fox to carry his program on Oct. 29. If requested, the network would be willing to make similar time available to Senator McCain’s campaign.”

The World Series has not gone to a sixth game since 2003.

The decision was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.



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fer sure.

cool.

Surprised if the stadium plays Obama's speech. Oh and BTW MaGoo they are willing to do the same for you.

No checks from the McCain/Palin campaign at this point!

Well maybe he can make money by making Sarah and Cindy mud wrestle. LOL!

:nopity:

"Delaying America's pastime" This will make them go deliciously nuts for the next two weeks.

so they can get used to seeing the next President on TV all the time. They need to get over it.

not the delaying of the game, but a presidential candidate buying a half hour on 3 networks at once to speak to the public.

I've never heard of it.

He had those folksy 30 minutes "infomercials" that were paid for out of his own pocket and I believe they were aired on all the major networks.

....he was DEAD on...in hindsight. :nopity:

Are those 5 minutes going to be baseball broadcast or ads before the game starts? Just wondering

They'll probably do a commercial or two and then 5 minutes of baseball intro.

I figured Barack would just leave out Fox, but this is even better.

Fox has to offer Obama the slot at very low infomercial-type rates. They will definitely not be making money off of this. I'm pretty sure he (and FOX) didn't want to preempt the beginning of a possible game six of the world series, so this was a good solution short of simply staying off of that network.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/10/obamas_primetime_buy_comes_at.html

Series could be over by game 4 or 5.

Fux needs the extra cash.

And possibly one from FL as well. All we need is to lose the ticked-off fan vote in two huge battleground states over this. :tinfoilhat:

Oh, right. The Rays don't actually have any fans. Silly me. :-)