i feel this way every year...
Jun. 5th, 2006 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearI am eternally surprised by the fact that the "winter" sport of hockey has its finals 10 days away from the start of summer, months after the last vestiges of snow and ice are off the bulk of the country. I know the reason (its cheaper to compete for air time and fan attention with baseball than it is to compete with football) but still - they wonder why by the time June rolls around, nobody gives a shit, then maybe they should keep the winter sports in the winter where they belong.
Basketball? Screw June - College's system works for the money and attention - go with an all-or-nothing tournament - create a May Madness (the hype around March is over as is the hype of baseball's opening in April), refresh everybody's attention rather than reminding us that you have 4 teams playing a max of 15 games over the course of 5 weeks by which time its taken so long we're just eternally sick of the whole damn enterprise.
Hockey should start 3 months earlier and end 3 months earlier, while we still "feel" cold. Basketball should end with a rousing free-for-all rather than this dragged down day-after-day of the same 10 names being repeated as if they mean something after this long.
bleh.
Basketball? Screw June - College's system works for the money and attention - go with an all-or-nothing tournament - create a May Madness (the hype around March is over as is the hype of baseball's opening in April), refresh everybody's attention rather than reminding us that you have 4 teams playing a max of 15 games over the course of 5 weeks by which time its taken so long we're just eternally sick of the whole damn enterprise.
Hockey should start 3 months earlier and end 3 months earlier, while we still "feel" cold. Basketball should end with a rousing free-for-all rather than this dragged down day-after-day of the same 10 names being repeated as if they mean something after this long.
bleh.
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Date: 2006-06-05 07:18 pm (UTC)exactly the problem - it gets eaten up by the college bowl games and the end of the main season of NFL. there's simply no way they can compete. the ideal *time* for hockey is to have its all-star break is in Feb, so its not fighting March madness or baseball's opening day.
now, that doesn't mean that the allstar game HAS to be exactly mid-season, but nobody thinks about those kinds of alternatives. how about the allstar game in feb, but for an october start date: rather than being arbitrary, the allstar break that late in the season becomes the last-call for trades before the final rush.
of course, i don't give a crap about the game - i just think its stupid to have a winter game's final in what is effectively the summer.