Bud Wiser?

It was difficult to get excited about the 2008 World Series rain delay issue. It was the controversy that wasn't: everybody talked about it as though it were a polarizing issue, but ultimately, no one really seemed to think that it was handled the wrong way (except, of course, for Scott Eyre).

And now, as perhaps the final chapter in this anticlimactic non-saga, we have this:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/11/20/playoffs.shortened.ap/index.html

Again, this is probably the only system that would really work, and it's great that MLB finally has something officially codified (and a little appalling that they didn't before). Still, it's going to be pretty awkward when Fox has to pre-empt a night of primetime TV to present the last two innings of an 11-1 blowout. What if the home team were losing? Would the stadium even be full? How sad would it be to watch a postseason baseball game in a non-full stadium? Would Joe Buck's underenthused monotone finally be appropriate for the situation? Only time will tell...