World Series night games

Nationally televised World Series night games have rendered the out-of-town newspapers useless, at least with regard to reporting on the game. Fox Sports has scheduled the night games to start at 8:30-ish Eastern. That means that a typical game will finish some time after 11PM, often later. The Boston Globe, New York Times, and others have to put their early editions to bed so that folks in the exurbs can have a morning paper. As a result, most of the content was written before the game started. We might, if we're lucky, get a partial score from the 5th inning.

Back in the day, a kid could get off of the school bus, hurry home, and watch the rest of a World Series game. You could watch Bill Mazeroski's walk-off home run in the 1960 series before it was even time for supper.