Add this to the list of tall tales that The Corner's Andy McCarthy tells his kid:
I've been telling my 6-yr-old son that the games start after 830pm because these are games even the people in California want to watch so they can't be started at our usual 7pm time. But it's not making anyone around my house feel any better about it -- that a kid who loved baseball and got deeply involved in it all year can't watch the World Series because it's on too late. My one consolation: Naturally, all the kids at school want Obama. But when I told him yesterday that we would have been able to watch an inning or two tonight but Obama bought commercial time so the game is starting too late, he got pretty annoyed at The One.
And now, from Politico:
A Fox Broadcasting executive denied that Barack Obama's half-hour ad, scheduled for tomorrow night, forced Fox and Major League Baseball to delay the start of a World Series game. * * * [T]he Fox account executive who negotiated the ad buy said Obama's ad isn't delaying the first pitch -- it's just replacing the pre-game show.
Oops.
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