Fox is going for the best rating time is why. Eastern time zone people have dealt with this before. It is saturday, too, so most won't mind at all. I am going to a friend's house to watch and have pizza and I am bringing my homemade brownies. I hope your tigers win tonight.
The networks try to show them when they can get the best ratings. 8:00 is great as opposed to 9:00 or 10:00.
The powers that be have decided that such a starting time will maximize revenue.
cause the players get more rest from their last game.
I'm in the Mountain Time Zone and the game is at 6 p.m. our time. The game will go until 9:30 or 10 p.m. That doesn't give me time to watch a movie or do anything after the game--why so late? Imagine how late that is in Boston--the game will go pretty close to midnight.