ESPN & MLB create travel headaches for the Boston Red Sox

[Auggie]

Because of the Sunday prime time telecast between The Red Sox and the Yankees, Boston opted to travel six hours cross-country today -- Monday -- to San Francisco, where they will face the Giants tonight.

The Sox/Yankees game ended at 12:19 am, Monday morning, EST. Normally, the Sunday start would be at 1:00 pm, which would allow the team to get into the Bay Area by about 10 pm PST -- assuring a normal night's sleep.

Travel cross-country on game days is rare.

Lester vs. Lincecum. Let's see how resilient these Red Sox are.

[Yavin4]

1. How much are the Red Sox players getting paid again?

The guy going into the KY coal mines this morning is feeling really bad about this.

[Auggie]

2. +1,000,000

Lots of people are working thankless jobs today.

From Boston's perspective, they will be taking the field at 10 pm. For a game that requires total physical and mental focus, that's asking lot, and worth pointing out in the Sports Group.

[Jamaal510]

3. I thought I

was the only person getting sick of all the Yankees-Red Sox games on national TV. Apparently some of the players are, too. Every time these 2 teams play each other, ESPN is sure to air at least one game from the series. It's crazy!

[Auggie]

4. The Sox are on primetime again tonight too -- ESPN2.

[Bluzmann57]

5. Oh no no no

You most certainly are not the only one who is sick of the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network and MLB shoving the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies (who suck), and to a lesser extent, the Braves down our throats all the time. I have gone so far as to contact ESPN and MLB about it. It didn't work, but it felt good.