Give me a fuckin break the RNC could care less about baseball there just mad obama came up with the idea before they did ...There so desprate to win votes now that they'll take anything as an excuse to smear what a bunch of assholes

Great, I love socialistic ideals, keep 'em coming Mr. Marx!

Not to defend Obama or anything, but I think it should be pointed out that he had nothing to do with the decision to move first pitch back a whole 18 minutes. FOX could very well have started the game at the same time instead of asking MLB to delay the game.

Anyways, you should see this as a positive - it will probably mean less pregame time for Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.

FUCK. The reason I watch sports right now is to avoid politics. All the more reason not to vote for Obama, he's fucking with my baseball.

Oh please, anyone getting bent out of shape about this needs to get their priorities straight. The RNC is an absolute joke. They're pissed they don't have the funds or the forethought to have done this themselves (this isn't without precedent. Hillary did it in the primaries) But really, who cares. It's not like Obama asked to have the game delayed. He bought the time, the networks opted to push the game back.

This is for a Game 6, the way baseball playoffs are going.. .it might only be a 3 Game series. Fox needs the ad dollars that they lost from no game 6 or 7 in the NLCS.

first pitch will be 538p in the west, it's all good.

-dan

So an RNC spokesman is stating that baseball is more important than this election??? Has he forgotten what his job is?

1. The RNC is only pissed because they didn't think of it first (and they are too poor to do it anyway.)

2. Why is baseball allowing this to occur? Because they know the ratings will suck anyway. This is why ratings are important, so shit like this doesn't happen.

Why is this "politics creeping into sport"? Obama isn't giving a speech before throwing out the first pitch; he made an unrelated TV buy. If MLB had any confidence in their product, they'd just schedule the game whenever they wanted.

WTF people, with all the pomp and shit that goes on before the games, you know that if the festivities still started at 8pm, that baseball game wouldnt start until about 40 after 8

Plain and simple Fox was offered more then a million dollars for the 30 minutes there was a conflict so Obama had moved on.

With the idea that it will be a Rays Phillie world series and ratings will be terrible Fox decided to go for the money grab. Yes the right-wing a-holes at Fox wanted more money

From gmoney:So an RNC spokesman is stating that baseball is more important than this election??? Has he forgotten what his job is?

Nobody has even heard about the 2008 election. It is almost like it is the stealth election. Obama who? McCain who? Sarah Palin - never heard of her?

Gimme a break.

Remember Black Monday in 1987? It happened to coincide with a travel day in the World Series. ABC got MLB to delay Game 5 (I believe) so President Reagan could give a speech about the financial mess.

Not to mention the two fanbases most hacked-off about starting late hail from Pennsylvania and Florida.

Dumb move, O.

I'm with Alex. I blame Dr. Gwin at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah for turning me off to politics. Literally, in the photo you selected AA, Obama looks like a jackass.

This is all part of George W. Bush and Bud Selig's conspiracy to force the Designated Hitter rule on the National League! Mark my words.

Fox actually gave 30 minutes to Barack Obama??????? Surprise of the century....

As far as baseball goes, is 18 minutes really that big of a difference?

I'm hoping for a sweep, so we don't see a Game 6.

Only by 8 minutes. Cry me a river. FOX will probably get better ratings from that than the previous 5 game share combined with Rays-Phils.

What a bunch of fucking morons here. The RNC and John McCain had the whole NY-Northern NJ area in gridlock last month when they moved up the kickoff to accomodate McCain's acceptance speech.

As always, it's okay if you are a Republican. But more importantly, they really have nothing left but bitching about Obama these days, which just makes them look more foolish when they are trounced in a couple of weeks.

I think the difference there, last poster with no name, is that the RNC speech was scheduled before the NFL game was. But this campaign ad (an ad, not a major event like a convention speech, just an ad) was plopped down at an inconvenient time.

Of course they're only saying it because it's Obama. And of course Obama would be saying the exact same things if the roles were reversed.

But that doesn't make it any less annoying. The only good part is the lack of a forty-five minute pre-game nonsense.

Also, it appears there is some confusion in this thread about the difference between Fox Television and Fox News. The two aren't closely related. So any criticism of "arch-conservative" Fox is off-base. Any network that shows stuff like "Temptation Island" and whatever else they show is obviously not too conservative.