ABC and the end of the LLWS Championship Game

People who run the TV industry are sometimes stupider than the people who watch the crap.

Tonight, what will probably be the most exciting baseball game of the year went into extra innings for the Little Leage World Series Championship. After the regulation six innings, after Hawaii came back to tie last year's champion Curacao in the bottom of the sixth, ABC shunted the extra innings over to ESPN2. Nothing wrong with that, unless you don't happen to receive ESPN2, which I don't.

And why did ABC bail out of the game except on the west coast and in Hawaii? So it could do what every other network and all the news channels were doing at the same time--telling us about the hurricane that isn't doing anything to anybody yet!

I was steamed. I don't watch TV enough to know if this sort of thing is common, but I enjoyed the LLWS far more than major league games. The kids spit less and don't scratch their balls on camera.

I tried to call ABC, but--surprise--the phone was busy. So I fired off an email that probably should have waited for revision after I'd cooled off. But, as I said in my email... Well, never mind what I said in my email.

Hawaii won, though, which was a good thing if only because the home plate umpire had earlier called a Curacao runner safe at home when he'd clearly been tagged out. Had the umpire had a better view of the tag, Hawaii would have won in regulation and the finish would have fit into its alloted slot on ABC's scheduling clipboard.