There’s a baseball game going on right now, and it’s nice, because I can have it on in the background as the workday winds down and I prepare for a weekend of absolute debauchery (just kidding I think I’m gonna get up early tomorrow so I can get my oil changed before the puppy’s real wound up).
And that has me thinking.
First, why doesn’t every Friday afternoon have a baseball game? Seems like we’re missing out on real good get-everyone-in-an-office-job-through-that-last-afternoon-of-the-week opportunity.
Secondly, why don’t we have Friday morning baseball? Start associating baseball with Friday. Make Friday the baseball day. Yes, you’d have to make sure the teams who played the Friday morning game were off on Thursday, and the quality of play might suffer, but also I mean come on, guys. You don’t have to get to the park six hours before every game. And if it’s spread evenly throughout the league, everyone’s affected equally. Make sure the game is always in Eastern or Central time, start it at 10:00 AM Eastern, boom—great day underway. Imagine that little spark of weekend you’d feel if you could log on to work or get in to work or show up at work (even in a non-office job) and know there’d be baseball going on imminently, and continuing throughout the day.
You know how Daylight Savings Time kills people? (It does, look it up, it’s absurd.) Well, morning baseball could save lives (but not baseball player lives—again, we must make sure nobody has to play on Thursday and then play the Friday morning game).
