Once again, Major League Baseball sucks

Here’s the scenario for tonight’s installment of League Championship Series round playoffs.

The St. Louis Cardinals are in New York to play the Mets in game 1 of the NLCS. Meanwhile, Detroit is in Oakland for game 2 of the ALCS.

That’s a three-hour time-zone difference. Get the A’s-Tigers game to do a 7:30 p.m. start, local time, instead of 7 p.m., while keeping the Cardinals-Mets at 7 p.m., and that’s an extra 30 minutes to play with. Given National League games go faster with no DH, you could easily run this as a doubleheader.

But, noooo. First, we’re getting both games starting at the same “universal” time. Second, even though this is the opening night of the NLCS, Fox in its infinite Republican-influenced? wisdom, is dumping that game onto their cable affiliates.

And I don’t have cable.

Update: I, and the Cardinals, get lucky with a rainout. Chris Carpenter can start Game 2 instead of Game 3, then Game 6 if needed, leaving him available for relief in Game 7.