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The day after Opening Day (starring Jake Gyllenhaal!) is always the most frustrating day on the Baseball calendar before the All-Star hiatus. Opening Day always gets a ton of matinee Baseball; it's traditional. In other words, there was a time when playing Baseball in the daytime was mandatory. But the day afterwards? Zilch. What was the point again, with the flurry of wonderful afternoon games to monitor while I'm at work, if we're just going to settle right into a PM-only rut, merely one day later, as if it's already some anonymous day in July? Not even the Cubs can help me out today! Boool-shit! Even the Yankees' rain out was rescheduled for 7:10pm! Rank odiousness!
From now on, I propose that the entirety of Opening Week needs to have at least two afternoon games scheduled.
(1) Matinee Baseball gets people's attention, even if they can't be at the game. It's something to remind you while you're at work that Baseball is back.
(2) Having only one day of matinees just calls attention to the artificial pomp of the entire affair. Ease into it a little bit more and the one time you do it won't seem so desperately fake.
(3) It's April anyway; the stadium does not get more comfortable after the sun goes down.
I know, I know, it's hard enough to sell tickets to non-Opening Day games when people aren't still at work. Well, maybe now is the right time to empty out that warehouse of promotional items that have been gathering dust. You only THINK no one would possibly want a Pete Incaviglia bobblehead, which is mostly true. But spin it right and make it and a free beer available to the first 10,000 attendees to an Opening Week matinee game, and you've got your sell-out, PLUS loads of new space in your warehouse. Now was that so hard?
From now on, I propose that the entirety of Opening Week needs to have at least two afternoon games scheduled.
(1) Matinee Baseball gets people's attention, even if they can't be at the game. It's something to remind you while you're at work that Baseball is back.
(2) Having only one day of matinees just calls attention to the artificial pomp of the entire affair. Ease into it a little bit more and the one time you do it won't seem so desperately fake.
(3) It's April anyway; the stadium does not get more comfortable after the sun goes down.
I know, I know, it's hard enough to sell tickets to non-Opening Day games when people aren't still at work. Well, maybe now is the right time to empty out that warehouse of promotional items that have been gathering dust. You only THINK no one would possibly want a Pete Incaviglia bobblehead, which is mostly true. But spin it right and make it and a free beer available to the first 10,000 attendees to an Opening Week matinee game, and you've got your sell-out, PLUS loads of new space in your warehouse. Now was that so hard?