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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Council Calls For Day Games In MLB Playoffs & World Series

Hope springs eternal in baseball.  And apparently in City Council too.  How else to explain a resolution introduced today that asks Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig -- you know, the guy who let the Phillies play deep into the Monday night slop and then suspended the game as soon as the Tampa Bay Rays tied the game -- to consider doing something reasonable and perhaps good for the game?

Councilman Jim Kenney's resolution calls on the league to change its rules to require at least one day game during the playoffs and the World Series.  This year's series World Series games all started around 8:30 p.m. The resolution, approved by Council, said day games would ensure that "youths can share in the excitement of these games and we can preserve the next generation of baseball fans."  The resolution also noted that some games ended after midnight, meaning young fans had to go to bed not knowing the final score.

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Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.

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