So, 3-1/2 weeks ago I started reliving the the 2018 Boston Red Sox World Championship season. I down loaded the schedule from that year in CSV (comma separated value) format and edited the year from 2018 to 2020 so I could import it into my Google calendar. I also changed the start times to 6:30 AM because, so far, almost all of the games have been watched with, or after, breakfast.
I was not sure when “real” baseball would return for 2020, or if ever, so I planned to just keep watching 2018 games on the day they occurred all the way through the World Series in October. This was assuming that MLBTV would keep offering free access to their archives. I was also basing this assumption on that they wouldn’t be playing baseball in 2020 at all, because I’m sure if they did, access to the 2018 archive would disappear.
This past Sunday I read an article in the paper that they are proposing to start an 82 game season on the 4th of July weekend. Uh, oh! The regular season ended on September 30th, so now I probably need to finish watching the season by June 30th. This morning I edited my CSV file by eliminating three month’s worth of games. Today’s game I watched was an inter-league game against the Philadelphia Phillies and originally played on August 14, 2018.
The downside to jumping ahead 3 full months and MLB does shut off my access when they start playing ball in July is that I won’t see any of the playoff games. The final World Series game was played on the 26th of October, so to see these games I would have to had jumped ahead 4 months and that would left only 2 weeks worth of regular season games. I do remember that they beat the MFY in the Divisional Series, the Astros in the ACLS and the Dodgers in the World Series, but I don’t know how many games it takes in each of those match ups. If the 2020 season doesn’t start in early July or they don’t shut off access to the archive I’ll watch those games.