# Baseball ain't been good to me at all. I Pit FOX. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612 "2005-10-03T17:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/1 "2005-10-03T17:55:04Z")
FOX had to go and kill _House_ for a month. A MONTH. A FUCKING MONTH. 28 days. 672 hours. 40320 minutes. 2419200 seconds. The next new episode will be on Tuesday, November 1. NOVEMBER. Okay? November. Why, you ask? Surely they must have some good reason. Maybe one of the actors was sick or injured and that delayed the production of new episodes. Maybe there was some huge technical problem. Nope. Baseball. Yup, you heard right. From now until the resumption of House, Tuesday nights will be the American League lead up to the World Series. Tomorrow night is the American League Division Series Game 1, between the Yankees and the LA Angels. Well, FUCK THE ANGELS. But more importantly, FUCK THE YANKEES. If the Yankees weren’t so goddamn rich, buying all the players with talent, FOX wouldn’t be all “look at us, we’re NYC’s tv station.” Fuck baseball in general. I’m genuinely sick and tired of athletes getting paid millions of dollars a year to STAND AROUND FOR MOST OF THE GAME. That’s all they do. They stand there and wait for 30 seconds of action per batter. Bullshit. That’s not worth even a quarter of the money that Americans feed into the multibillion-dollar baseball industry. After tomorrow night, Tuesday nights will be the American League Championship Series, deciding who goes to the World Series. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. They could hold the world series in the grassy quad right outside my dorm window and I still wouldn’t watch it. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. All the network execs care about is ratings. Heaven forbid they program their shows based on quality. If they did that, you can bet your ass they wouldn’t be postponing a pinnacle of sardonic, dramatic, character-rich fiction for the sake of however much money the Yankees are bribing them to air the games. :mad: :mad: God damn mother fucking shit eating fuckers can eat shit and fucking die. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/2 "2005-10-03T18:17:35Z")
Well, I like baseball and I don’t watch _House_. So there. 😛 Though I hate the Goolgle ads, I feel compelled to mention that, ironically, all the ads are for buying baseball tickets online. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/3 "2005-10-03T18:24:51Z")
The same thing used to happen to the season premiere of The X-Files, with the SP finally showing around the first week of November. I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/4 "2005-10-03T18:27:25Z")
Any live sport has better drama than any hour-long show featuring a doctor with unconventional methods and craptastic bedside manners when dealing with his patients. You’re right about one thing, the Yankoffs do suck though. Go ANGELS!!! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/5 "2005-10-03T18:35:50Z")
Fox is a business and they make a shitload more money from baseball advertising than they do from your lame fucking TV drama. That and I like baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/6 "2005-10-03T18:36:48Z")
I also wish that the baseball was on a different channel, but only because I hate the way Fox does baseball. They make the playoffs tough to watch every year. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/7 "2005-10-03T18:39:31Z")
Meh. _House_ is derivative, cliched drama put together by committee. Baseball playoffs are live and far more interesting! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/8 "2005-10-03T18:41:50Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > Any live sport has better drama than any hour-long show featuring a doctor with unconventional methods and craptastic bedside manners when dealing with his patients. > > You’re right about one thing, the Yankoffs do suck though. Go ANGELS!!! I agree with your first paragraph. I **strongly** disagree with your second. Go YANKEES ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/9 "2005-10-03T18:42:42Z")
But- but- how will television survive with one less medical drama on a temporary basis? That only leaves 856 medical shows on the major networks and basic cable! 😛 They changed it this year, but for several years the Simpsons season didn’t start until after the World Series either. I don’t think anyone died. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/10 "2005-10-03T18:46:36Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t think anyone died. I did, once. I got better. (also, SUCK IT, YANKEES) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/11 "2005-10-03T19:25:16Z")
I love baseball. Couldn’t care less about “House.” You do know that the games are televised even when the Yankers aren’t in it, right? Just checking. (Go Angels! Go ChiSox! Beat the East! Beat the East!) ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/12 "2005-10-03T19:25:54Z")
You all suck. I should have known the thread title would just attract baseball fans. “Oh no! He implied that baseball is something less than the be all and end all of existence! I’d better go in there and tell him I like baseball!” Well, you’ve made your point, crappy as it is. All of literature is character growth. Tell me how exactly baseball qualifies? Oh, and the google ads can just get fucked in the ear with a rusty pipe. Sideways. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/13 "2005-10-03T19:27:37Z")
Will they still be showing the same number of new _House_s over the course of the season—you’ll just have to wait longer to see them? Or does this actually shorten the TV season? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/14 "2005-10-03T19:36:07Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > You all suck. I should have known the thread title would just attract baseball fans. "Oh no! He implied that baseball is something less than the be all and end all of existence! Gosh yes. All of the baseball fans are frothing while you’re the epitome of reason and mild-mannered fandom. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/15 "2005-10-03T19:37:50Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I also wish that the baseball was on a different channel, but only because I hate the way Fox does baseball. They make the playoffs tough to watch every year. A-fucking-men, brother! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/16 "2005-10-03T19:39:12Z")
I for one have never heard of House. Go Yankees! Burning question for Cub fans- If it is White Sox vs. Cardinals in WS, who do you root for? ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/17 "2005-10-03T19:43:19Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > You all suck. I should have known the thread title would just attract baseball fans. “Oh no! He implied that baseball is something less than the be all and end all of existence! I’d better go in there and tell him I like baseball!” Well, you’ve made your point, crappy as it is. All of literature is character growth. Just how does suckling at the glass teat promote personal character growth? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/18 "2005-10-03T20:05:30Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#): > > Just how does suckling at the glass teat promote personal character growth? That which does kill you makes you stronger? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/19 "2005-10-03T20:05:59Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Burning question for Cub fans- If it is White Sox vs. Cardinals in WS, who do you root for? Oh man, I hope this happens SO BAD. As if Cubs fans weren’t funny enough, this would be _hilarious_. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612/20 "2005-10-03T20:06:50Z")
As noted above, I’ve gotten used to Fox fucking with the schedule dating back to _The X-Files_. Yeah, it sucks, but I’m happy about it when _House_ is still running new episodes a month after other shows have gone into reruns. And go Angels! …Actually, I don’t really care for baseball. I just want the Yankess to lose so the talking heads on WFAN can turn more of their attention to what’s _really_ important…football!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-aint-been-good-to-me-at-all-i-pit-fox/324612.md?page=2)