World Series provides needed break from "Must See TV"

I'm not a baseball fan. I don't find the sport to be very exicting or interesting. But considering how infatuated Americans are becoming with NBC's Thursday night line up, I would say this week's interuption of "Must See TV" by the World Series was healthy. Maybe a week absent of "Veronica's Closet", "Union Square", "Friends", and, yes, "Seinfeld" for Americans might bring everyone back down to reality. At this point, some of the older episodes of Seinfeld should start appearing in syndication by Monday. Hopefully, with the absence of a new episode on Thursday, people will watch the old reruns and realize how much better they are from the new episodes. At this point, only fate and large, monsterous events - such as the World Series blocking out "Must See TV" - are the only hope for bringing Americans back to their senses.

Justin Tribble Sedona, Az.

I just find it laugable that NBC signs a contract to host the World Series on television, then the President of NBC says he's hoping for a 4-game sweep so they wouldn't have to preempt the Thursday lineup. If Thursday's shows are that big a deal and they care about their ratings, why did they pick up the World Series in the first place...I'm sure any other network would have taken it...

Generally speaking the World Series is a ratings bonanza but because of the teams involved, viewership is down. Neither team is from a big market, which hurts.

Meanwhile Game 7 had the highest nationwide rating for a World Series game since 1991, and the highest local viewership (92% of all tv's turned on in South Florida were tuned to the game) ever.

Quoth [email] (Dave):

Personally, I'm glad my TV has picture-in-picture. I watched a lot of the Series that way... with the game in the little "window" when there was a break in the action (and with baseball, that's most of the time), and switched back to the main screen when there was actually pitching and batting going on.

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[email] (Justin Tribble) wrote:

Plus, it gave me a week off...