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Late start times in Denver

POSTED: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 10:47 PM

Paul Hagen

Major League Baseball announced the starting times for the remaining games of the Phillies-Rockies series.

The Phillies already know that first pitch tomorrow will be 9:37 p.m. EDT. Sunday’s Game 4 will be even later: 10:07 p.m.

If Game 5 is necessary back at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday, it will start at 6:07 p.m. or, if it’s the only game, 8:07 p.m.

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Comments (33)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:47 AM, 10/09/2009

There may be more people living in the L.A. metro area, but they are not true baseball fans. I know firsthand from years of living there. This is just going from bad to worse. Selig needs to go. But then, that's nothing new. WFC!!!!! Go Phillies!

— BLH

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:18 AM, 10/09/2009

who still gets off for Columbus day? MLB baseball hypes up only two or three teams and then wonders why ratings go off a cliff when the teams they barely mention keep advancing. Make a big star out of Ryan Howard, as he deserves, and people might tune into wathc him rather than some nonsense about Mannywood or Big Papi or whomever else would be over the hill without chemical enhancement

— colinthomson3

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:28 AM, 10/09/2009

Wow a lot of offensive comments today. *** This is a joke on us created by Ted Turner and it is meant to remove the viewing audience and force the world champions into the worst starting times possible. I would say Ted should be ashamed of himself but he probably knows no shame.

— Wally 24

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:47 AM, 10/09/2009

school or no school this is an outrage. Yeah its bad for the fans but we'll all stay up and watch. The real problem is the players bodies are also tuned to EST. Youre basically making them play a game at midnight in the snow. I think this makes game 3 a MUST WIN.

— tony thunder

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:15 PM, 10/09/2009

THE TBS ANNOUNCER WAS OBVIOUSLY ROOTING FOR THE ROCKIES - IT WAS A DISGRACE!! GET THAT JERK OFF THE AIR.

— ronjra

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:17 PM, 10/09/2009

asdfjk,,,,, No a 10 PM start will not get me to want to blow Joe Buck Andrew from Bklyn - what are you doing on a Phillies web site imparting your pearls of wisdom ???...the Mets sucked (see suggestion about Joe Buck above to solve this problem) so get a life and restrict yourself to the NY Post !

— 64 survivor

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:58 PM, 10/09/2009

BwaaHaaHaaHaaa!! MwaaHaaHaa!! BWAAHAAAHAAAA!!! My plan is working!! It's WORKING!!! BWAAAHAAAAAAHAAAHAAAAA!!!

— BudSelig_isthenext_MrBurns

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:23 PM, 10/09/2009

MLB efffs it up again! That is why the season is too long and the playoff games should be in september, NOT OCTOBER!. Baseball is a WARM WEATHER sport! 90% of the games are played in warm weather and then the most important games, PLAYOFFS, are played in cold weather like New York, Colorado, Philly and Boston. Then they start some game at 10:00? WTF? Have both night games atart at 8 and regoinalize them. If one game sucks they can switch to the other one. MLB will never learn.

— meknowitall

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:37 PM, 10/09/2009

[andrewfrombrooklyn Grow up people; it's about ratings. ...... Man up.] EXACTLY! TBS (and by extension, MLB, because TBS is signing their checks) doesn't care about the Phillies. In fact, they are probably hoping the Phillies are eliminated because that enables the "upstarts knock off the champions" feel-good stories. ... There are many things to rip Selig for, but allowing TV to dictate the starting times (although distasteful) is just a fact of life these days. (You might as well blame Curt Flood, Catfish Hunter, Charlie Finley, and Marvin Miller!)

— jman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:40 PM, 10/09/2009

[Wally 24 Wow a lot of offensive comments today. *** This is a joke on us created by Ted Turner and it is meant to remove the viewing audience and force the world champions into the worst starting times possible. I would say Ted should be ashamed of himself but he probably knows no shame.] Wally, Hello! It's 2009. Ted Turner no longer controls TBS. Again, try to keep up!

— jman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:46 PM, 10/09/2009

Just in case you would like to pass your opinion along to someone who actually could (but won't) do something about it, Bud Selig's Office number is: (212) 931-7800. Wouldn't it be great to make their lives miserable with a few thousand calls?

— zakes

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:09 PM, 10/09/2009

David Murphy is annoying as hell already.....Bring back Zolecki

— phillyceltic

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:21 PM, 10/09/2009

I don't think the networks 'hate' the Phillies, they just don't respect us. It would be a good story for them for the upstart Rockies to defeat the Phils (just like it would have been last year if the Rays had won). They love the Angels and the Dodgers because they are from the largest city on the west coast. They love the Red Sox because of the "nation". That they love the Yankees for obvious reasons and the Twins are a small market hungry team (although the networks wouldn't want them to beat the yankees). The Phils never will get the same respect UNLESS they repeat as champions. You have to remember that inside baseball, the Phils are still preceived as losers for all they terrible teams they've had over the years plus our fans are thought of as mean and nasty. Don't get me wrong, I've been a fan of this team for over 40 years. I want them to win! The Phils need to earn respect and nothing would make me happier if the Phils stuck it to the networks by screwing with their plans and winning it all again. GO PHILS!!!!!!

— James TL