New Start Times

[esmd]

Wow, pretty big change and break with tradition there.  I'm old enough the remember when the games started at 7:35 on weeknights, but they've been 7:05 for a long time, maybe around the last few years of Memorial Stadium?  I'm good with it, might make it a bit tougher to get there in time for first pitch for some folks, but it is what it is.  Now if they're just start the playoff and WS games earlier than 8pm.

[survivedc]

34 minutes ago, SteveA said:

You  mean soccer practice.   Very few kids play baseball anymore.

This was more true a few years ago than it is today:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27448703/youth-baseball-participation-rise%3fplatform=amp

[survivedc]

40 minutes ago, Frobby said:

It’s great if you work downtown.   

Gives me less time to kill between work and game time. I’ll also appreciate the extra daylight at the stadium.

[Moose Milligan]

I'm not sure what this will do.  Makes life harder for someone like brother @Frobby but also maybe makes games more appealing to families in the area.

I will say this, it seems that this current regime seems more fan friendly, fan focused than previous regimes.  

[Can_of_corn]

Maybe now Drungo can stay up past the seventh inning.

[Big Mac]

I didn't have any chance at making it to a weekday game when they were at 7 anyway so this doesn't change much for me.  It sort of stinks that the games will be even further along by the time I get home to watch, but hopefully this makes it easier for some folks to get there. 

[TommyPickles]

Guess my buddies and I will no longer be driving down from Philly after work for any of those games... We we're already showing up around the bottom of the 2nd/top of the 3rd as it was...  But good for the kiddos, I guess.

[weams]

So if you can enter the stadium 2 hours before game time, if you work downtown, you can go right over afterwards without having to pregame.  Maybe taking advantage of who is there during the day. 

[weams]

18 minutes ago, TommyPickles said:

Guess my buddies and I will no longer be driving down from Philly after work for any of those games... We we're already showing up around the bottom of the 2nd/top of the 3rd as it was...  But good for the kiddos, I guess.

Come during the summer. 

[TommyPickles]

8 minutes ago, weams said:

Come during the summer. 

Will do!

[Legend_Of_Joey]

56 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I will say this, it seems that this current regime seems more fan friendly, fan focused than previous regimes.  

"Fan Fest" would disagree.

I wonder if they will still open the gates at 5, or earlier.

[weams]

1 minute ago, TommyPickles said:

Will do!

Gome to a hangout night!

[weams]

Just now, Legend_Of_Joey said:

"Fan Fest" would disagree.

I wonder if they will still open the gates at 5, or earlier.

Good food at the station. 

[Legend_Of_Joey]

34 minutes ago, weams said:

Good food at the station. 

I can not post my actual response, due to forum rules.

[atomic]

2 hours ago, SteveA said:

You  mean soccer practice.   Very few kids play baseball anymore.

Soccer is in the fall.