East coasters and watching sports
Living on the west coast, I always forget that my time slots for watching sports on TV are much more convenient than you guys have it on the east. I figure that's more of a reason why ESPN tends to broadcast a lot of east coast games for most people that tend to be awake during those hours. I also reckon that could be part of the reason for Sportscenter to move to Los Angeles (so they're not all working in the wee hours of the night for west coast updates).
But for instance, the Cardinals and the Dodgers will be playing on ESPN tomorrow night at 7:00 Pacific, 10:00 Eastern. I was wondering, do you [baseball] guys stay up and watch these games? I'm not really inferring that 10:00 is sleep time, but these games could very well end at 1:00 AM and you may have work in the morning. Or say how Baseball Tonight normally has its 10:00 PM ETand 12:00 PM ET times. If you're focused on a west coast race or whatever, will you stay up for that episode of baseball tonight?
See, I figure I have it easy on the west coast: with relation to Pacific Standard Time, games will normally fall in the time slots of 10:00 AM (east coast day games), 1:00 PM (west coast day games), 4:00 PM (east coast night games), and 7:00 PM (west coast night games). Then the mountain and central time games fall in between. Heck, even for baseball tonight games they are always at 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PST) so it still seems like a better time slot for the west coast. It just seems like it is "easier" for us and that we have it "better" in this regard.
I mean I used to love the days when the Braves were on TBS Superstation. I would wake up on a Saturday morning to watch them play at 10:00 AM, maybe watch a FOX broadcast at 1:00 PM, the A's play on the east coast at 4:00 PM, then watch the Giants host a team at 7:00 PM, then soon get ready for bed again. Twelve consecutive hours of baseball in my waking hours of the day and I don't miss a thing. Or I can at least watch the Gameday stuff on MLB.com and still be happy. For instance it's 9:00 AM now and in one hour I'm ready for some baseball action, where it's almost noon on the east coast and I'm sure you've been Jonesing for some since this morning.
I'm mostly referring to baseball because they play every night, where as football is mostly on Sunday so you'd figure that you can sacrifice one more hour up at night to watch a game if you have to (plus they don't play many night games), and because it's the only schedule that I'm really aware of. But I'm sure that the Lakers are shown on ESPN sometimes and you guys like to watch that as well.
Sorry for the long post that carried with this, but I was just wondering if this is a bother for anyone three hours ahead of me, or maybe if it's a deterrent for you living there. I guess it's not too bad since most of you probably couldn't care less about match ups on the west coast, but when your team plays there I'm sure you do and you'd like to see a game that doesn't start at 10:00 PM. It makes sense to me now when people say they wish for more day games on the schedule.
Just wanted to hear some opinions. It can be any sport really, but I'm mostly aware of baseball.
EDIT: Oh, and what I find especially hilarious is how accustomed I've grown to simply subtracting three hours from listed eastern time schedules. Like I'm at MLB.com right now and I see the Giants play New York at 1:10 PM ET. But it's almost like I already see that in my head as 10:10 AM ET without thinking twice about it. In fact, I almost prefer it that way where I just do the math in my head.
But for instance, the Cardinals and the Dodgers will be playing on ESPN tomorrow night at 7:00 Pacific, 10:00 Eastern. I was wondering, do you [baseball] guys stay up and watch these games? I'm not really inferring that 10:00 is sleep time, but these games could very well end at 1:00 AM and you may have work in the morning. Or say how Baseball Tonight normally has its 10:00 PM ETand 12:00 PM ET times. If you're focused on a west coast race or whatever, will you stay up for that episode of baseball tonight?
See, I figure I have it easy on the west coast: with relation to Pacific Standard Time, games will normally fall in the time slots of 10:00 AM (east coast day games), 1:00 PM (west coast day games), 4:00 PM (east coast night games), and 7:00 PM (west coast night games). Then the mountain and central time games fall in between. Heck, even for baseball tonight games they are always at 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PST) so it still seems like a better time slot for the west coast. It just seems like it is "easier" for us and that we have it "better" in this regard.
I mean I used to love the days when the Braves were on TBS Superstation. I would wake up on a Saturday morning to watch them play at 10:00 AM, maybe watch a FOX broadcast at 1:00 PM, the A's play on the east coast at 4:00 PM, then watch the Giants host a team at 7:00 PM, then soon get ready for bed again. Twelve consecutive hours of baseball in my waking hours of the day and I don't miss a thing. Or I can at least watch the Gameday stuff on MLB.com and still be happy. For instance it's 9:00 AM now and in one hour I'm ready for some baseball action, where it's almost noon on the east coast and I'm sure you've been Jonesing for some since this morning.
I'm mostly referring to baseball because they play every night, where as football is mostly on Sunday so you'd figure that you can sacrifice one more hour up at night to watch a game if you have to (plus they don't play many night games), and because it's the only schedule that I'm really aware of. But I'm sure that the Lakers are shown on ESPN sometimes and you guys like to watch that as well.
Sorry for the long post that carried with this, but I was just wondering if this is a bother for anyone three hours ahead of me, or maybe if it's a deterrent for you living there. I guess it's not too bad since most of you probably couldn't care less about match ups on the west coast, but when your team plays there I'm sure you do and you'd like to see a game that doesn't start at 10:00 PM. It makes sense to me now when people say they wish for more day games on the schedule.
Just wanted to hear some opinions. It can be any sport really, but I'm mostly aware of baseball.
EDIT: Oh, and what I find especially hilarious is how accustomed I've grown to simply subtracting three hours from listed eastern time schedules. Like I'm at MLB.com right now and I see the Giants play New York at 1:10 PM ET. But it's almost like I already see that in my head as 10:10 AM ET without thinking twice about it. In fact, I almost prefer it that way where I just do the math in my head.
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