Armchair Talking Head

Dear Commissioner Slive,

Do you know what time I left Regions Park last night?  I and maybe 100 other brave souls stayed until 2am, and Hell I didn’t even see the end of Alabama’s 9-3 loss to Kentucky.  You Mr. Slive have a scheduling problem that needs to be fixed.  I understand delays due to extra innings, etc. but one 10 inning game is no excuse for an almost 3 hour delay for the final game of the day.  It isn’t fair to the players, nor to the fans to have them waiting in limbo as happened in Hoover last night/this morning.  First pitch was scheduled for 8pm, yet finally arrived at 10:45pm.

I’m not asking you to do away with extra inning games, nice long warm-up sessions, singing the national anthem, or anything like that.  But when you’re playing baseball at 2am on a Wednesday night, there’s an issue.

The solution may not be attractive, but to maintain the integrity of the game and the tournament, games are either going to have to start earlier, or the tournament must become single elimination and start a day earlier.

RTR Commish!,

TalkingHead

PS:  If you could fix the BCS, that would be great too.