So, just something to think about while you’re not obsessing about who will be running your city and county.

I’m sitting here at Chez Bruneau watching what Ring Lardner rightly called the World’s Serious (and it’s so sad to see Raul “Raooool” Ibanez in a Philadelphia uniform instead of a Mariners or Cubs one) and there are already ads for Christmas bullshit. From different stores. Not just one outlier: Xmas is already sitting on our chests preparing to stick its commercial . . . interests . . . right down to the gag reflex.

Now, I know (hey Fnarf!) that this World Series is the latest one ever scheduled (first one scheduled in advance to play in November). Nonetheless. Christmas ads should wait until only winter sports—football, basketball, and hockey—are on TV.

Discuss.

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  3. It’s only fair to point out that the first ten weeks of the baseball season are stepped on by hocky and basketball. I think the Stanley cup and the NBA finals didn’t wrap up until one week before summer solstice, 2009. So baseball’s just getting its own back. That said, the joke’s definitely on baseball. Or baseball’s fans. Especially Colorado baseball fans. I wish the Rockies had made it to the WS this November, but we’ve already had 20″ of snow.

  4. Doesn’t basketball count as a summer sport? The NBA finals run to the middle of June (from mid-April – two full months!) Meanwhile, you can’t get a baseball game on in a one-TV bar, because, you know, THE NBA FINALS ARE ON!!!

    If the MLB post-season were as big of a joke, games would run well into December.

  5. There ought to be a law: no prominently displayed Christmas stuff in stores, and no Christmas-themed advertising, until the day after Thanksgiving.

  8. There are two reasons it’s so late this year. One is the World Baseball Classic, which took place in late March and made the majors wait til April 4 to start. The other, more important reason is Fox TV, who have force the World Series to begin on Wednesdays rather than the traditional Saturday start because Saturday is a ratings black hole. I believe all the rounds of the playoffs began on weekdays.

    I think those days off for travel during each series ought to be eliminated too. They can rest up between rounds.

  12. I’m a professional Christmas caroler during the winter to bring in some extra money, and I’ve already had FOUR gigs. One of which was in SEPTEMBER. It was to promote a movie, but come on…

  15. Baseball is also dragging into November due to the addition of the AL/NL Central and the Wild Card spot. The playoffs used to be much shorter than they are now due to the addition of four more teams making it to the post-season.

  16. @ 15, that’s true, but they still managed to wrap it all up before Halloween the first 12 years they did that. A couple of those went the maximum 7 games, too.

  17. I would love to see Ibanez in a Mariner uniform right about now too, because he’s killing the Phillies with his crap defense. [and I neeeed the Phillies to crush the Yankees for reasons that I’m not totally sure off…] Arghg!

  19. we don’t believe in xmas on religious grounds, but we bitch about its timing? wtf?

    creating your own religion I guess.

    meanwhile, Obama is on front page of NYT talking tough to Karzia…telling him he has to root out corruption…we might even make Afgh. set up a corruption commission! Wowie zowie.

    REmember when Billdawg got total shit for having a lunch date with a businessman seeking a big Kazahkistan pipeline contract? The lunch resulted in the contract and and the dude gave Clinton a big donation for his anti poverty foundation, and this was condemned as sooo slimy and political and compromised, etc.

    So now Karzai fucking steals the election with 40% fraudulent votes, then they send Kerry over there to force Karzai to agree to a run off, woo hoo, then it’s so corrupt that Abudullah Abdullah whatever refuses to run, and the electoral commission declares Karzai the winner. Nice way to steal the election, right?

    And Obama recognizes this and “insists” Karzai take some minimal measures against corruption.

    What a farce.

    I think you’ve gotten the point. Obama’s great and hey, it’ll be great to have this health care reform but as far as thinking he’s towering over all other politicians, well, he fooled youse guys.

    And wow, public option will cover two percent.

    And wow, we’re going to lose the governorship in Virginia and Obama spends all his time helping the Goldman Sachs governor of NJ.

    What a huge change, right?

  20. Ibanez would be wise to avoid the cubs. Those losers will NEVER get it together. Oh, and the bleachers at the dump they call a stadium are full of some of the most vile racist chumps in all of baseball. Shorter version: Fuck the cubs and that craphole they play in.

  21. @6: Indeed.

    Canadian Thanksgiving is definitely superior in terms of timing. I just never got how you guys manage to weather two major holidays within a month, especially considering how fucking huge Thanksgiving is in American culture.

  23. No loving God would allow A-Rod to ever win a World Series ring. We should find out this week, then, if there is a God or if we are truly alone (or, alternately, if there is a God and He hates our species).

    The saddest part of this World Series is that my favorite player in the MLB, former Mariner Jamie Moyer, got injured right at the end of the season (torn groin! blood poisoning after surgery!) and isn’t able to pitch for the Phillies. 🙁

  25. I don’t understand why people hate A-Rod, possibly the greatest player ever, but give his teammate Derek Jeter a free pass. Jeter is the biggest horse’s ass in sports. Oh, wait — maybe I just answered my question.

  27. You’re all wet, Fnarf. Jeter isn’t any bigger an ass than any star athlete, but A-rod is a cheat and a publicity whore. (Well, til recently.)

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