Okay, in a strange twist of events, I am throwing my support behind ESPN.  I know that is not common among bloggers -especially me- but in this case I am encouraging them to not listen to the critics.  Emails, phone calls, and angry Jewish Yankee fans might be found outside the walls of Jericho Bristol.  If you see them starting to walk around the perimeter silently, then you might have a problem.  But since that is unlikely to happen, stay strong and do not go back on your decision.  What decision? This one.

The New York Jets already caved to fan pressure and solicited the NFL to have their game time changed for Rosh Hashanah, because their Jewish football fans put the Jets first, and their faith second.   I have already covered this, and the league and the Jets caved to the demands of a group of people.  The New York Giants made sure that they didn’t have the home game the week of Yom Kippur, so they didn’t have to deal with another fallout with their Jewish fan base, remember this?

We all know that ESPN generally doesn’t give a rats-ass  public opinion.  They know they are the one and only sports station that people generally watch. Even us that generally cannot stand them at times, continue to be viewers.  However, they are going to receive massive amounts of pressure to relinquish this game to the Jewish fans in New York.  See, they want their cake and eat it too.  Well, they actually can’t eat cake on Yom Kippur, but you get what I mean.  Bottom line, this is the Day of Atonement for Jews, their focus should be on things much bigger than baseball, according to their religion.  I 100% positive there are more Jewish people who can careless about the Yankee game than those who do.  I am sure there are Jewish Yankees fans that don’t care to miss the game either.  So don’t see this as a rebuke of all those involved in that religion, just those that will be sure to complain.

I don’t care what time the game is at as a Yankee fan.  The Giants are on the road that week, so if the game remained at 1pm, I would just switch back and forth. There is a good chance the game will have little meaning, because the Yanks will have the division and best record wrapped up.  If they remain on at 8, cool.  I can then fall asleep around the 6th inning since it will already be 11pm by that point.  I am just sick and tired of sports changing their schedule around to meet the demand of “special interest groups.”  ESPN wants their ratings, and they will get their ratings.  Just stand strong Bristol.  Don’t worry about anyone blowing a horn outside of your buildings.

UPDATE: Aaaaaand, they caved. Game moved back to 1pm.

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