There's only one World Series! And if you aren't out of your mind on cocaine, you'll be asleep for most of it.

Here are the broadcast times for the World Series televised on FOX.

Gm 1: 8 pm
Gm 2: 8 pm
Gm 3: 8 pm
Gm 4: 8 pm

Now keep in mind that an "8PM" start actually means that the game will start somewhere after 8:30. That extra half hour is necessarry so we can get the always important "keys to victory" which usually contain such insightful nuggets as "the team that scores first is going to put themselves in a good position to win" or my other favorite "the key to the pitcher having a good game is throwing first pitch strikes". Really? It's important for pitchers to throw strikes? That's the kind of wisdom that makes it worth it for me to stay up until 1 in the morning and drool on my keyboard the next day at work.

Look, I understand that FOX has paid a king's ransom for the rights to televise the World Series and I understand they need to maximize their revenue. What I don't understand is how it makes sense to have the game ending after half the country is asleep. Is that what advertisers really want? Selling to people that are taking power naps during commercial breaks??

But there is another issue here. Call me sentimental if you want to, but what about the kids? The ones that Major League Baseball needs in order to keep their product viable for the next generation. So how does it make sense to start the game after the average 10 year old in Boston is already asleep? In an article in todays Boston Globe FOX Sports production administrator Anita Bartlett lets us know that it in her mind it does. "A 10-year-old in Boston needs to know that they are on just one spot on the planet. There are other time zones." Thank you so much Anita for putting our 10 year olds in their place. They get so out of line wanting to see the team they've been rooting for all year play in the world series. Don't they know there are corporate sponsors in California that need to be placated?

Two time zones have teams playing in the world series.

How about we worry about placating them.