People like me (i.e. fans of the team that lost the wild card playoff) can whine all we want about how baseball is poorly-suited for a one-game playoff, but it’s pretty academic when Major League Baseball issues press releases like this:
Through its first two days of coverage, TBS is averaging 3.9 million viewers, up +26% over last year’s first two days of Postseason coverage. The two Wild Card Games averaged more than 4.6 million viewers, up +61% over last year’s first day of coverage and also exceeded the average 4.2 million viewers for the entire 19-game 2011 Division Series.
I’m assuming there won’t be too much crowing about the third day of the playoffs in which the first two games were opposite afternoon NFL action and the Yankees game -- likely slotted at 6PM to avoid going head-to-head against Sunday Night Football -- was forced to go head-to-head against Sunday night football thanks to the rain delay.
