O/T - All Star game

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

- Having the actual All Star game start at 8:30 EST is rough for people that live in the eastern time zone and have to work the next day. It's not unusual for these games to end near midnight...

And what about the people in the Pacific time zone? A good percentage of people are not home from work before 5:30.

[celoknob]

Originally Posted by Brendan

And what about the people in the Pacific time zone? A good percentage of people are not home from work before 5:30.

Especially all those "non-professionals" with tatoos and body piercings.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Brendan

And what about the people in the Pacific time zone? A good percentage of people are not home from work before 5:30.

Brendan,
I hear you as I grew up in So Cal, but there has to be a happy medium.
Play the game on the weekend, flip-flop the viewing time so that the east and west are at an equal disadvantage as far as viewing times.

I do realize that this all boils down to advertising bucks and what works best for the people that pay for the ads as far as viewer participation....

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Brendan,
I hear you as I grew up in So Cal, but there has to be a happy medium.
Play the game on the weekend, flip-flop the viewing time so that the east and west are at an equal disadvantage as far as viewing times.

I do realize that this all boils down to advertising bucks and what works best for the people that pay for the ads as far as viewer participation....

And the happy medium is probably 8:30 Eastern. The greatest amount of people can watch it when it starts at that time. If not, I'm sure they would choose a different one. They could play it on the weekend and it would probably work out well. But hasn't the all star game always been during the week?

[HercDriver]

I finally got a chance to read the link and saw that the scholarships are for ROTC students, not the Academy. That makes more sense, as ROTC sluggos like me needed all the help we could get! I did ROTC, then 20 yrs in the AF, so I suppose I have a new appreciation for that nasty beard. I'm also a Grateful Dead fan, and I'm pretty sure Jerry Garcia's beard could hide more than Wilson's...

Take Care,
Geno