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Full schedule, start times for Yankees vs Dodgers World Series will bug east coast

Adam Weinrib
Adam Weinrib

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Gone are the days when the World Series used to land in the middle of a school day, with local kids craning their necks to catch a glimpse of the score on black-and-white TVs perched in the windows of hardware stores. And you know what? That is very good. That is an extremely unreliable viewership metric. You cannot sell prescription drug advertising based on that data. Still, though, you're always going to get scheduling complaints from people who remember the good old days, and the nostalgia associated with a Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series is going to increase that agitation tenfold.

Less than 24 hours after the Dodgers punched their ticket to join the Yankees (and secured homefield advantage), MLB dropped the full schedule for the Fall Classic, complete with start times.

Given the necessity of accommodating the west coast, there will be no evening or afternoon games here. In fact, MLB has gone out of their way to give us uniformity.

All games in the series will start at the exact same time: 8:08 PM on the east coast. The Dodgers' home games in Game 1, 2, 6, and 7 will all begin at 5:08 p.m. local time, and they'll represent the totality of the weekend games (Friday and Saturday across two separate weekends).

New Yorkers? They get "stuck" with the midweek affairs, taking place at 8:08 p.m. EST on Monday through Wednesday. We know you want to put your kids to be a little earlier, but trust us: they're going to beg to stay up regardless. It's actually good parenting to let them watch Luke Weaver.

Yankees vs. Dodgers Full World Series Schedule, Start Times

The death of World Series day games cannot be blamed on Rob Manfred; we haven't seen one since Game 6 of the 1987 World Series at the Metrodome. It was an inevitability they'd disappear -- and, honestly, it's a surprise the tradition even lasted that long.

Sunday afternoon sounds like a cozy time to tuck in a ballgame, but the NFL's got that monopoly covered. Same with College Football Saturday (plus, remember, any Saturday games will be played in Los Angeles, thanks to the Dodgers' superior record).

Sorry, folks. The action will be exciting either way. And if you must watch through the window of an abandoned Circuit City, that's your prerogative.

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib is a Content Director on the FanSided network, and has been the co-editor at Yanks Go Yard for 6 years. He also co-hosts The Baseball Insiders Podcast thrice weekly, alongside FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray, as well as the Yanks Go Yard Podcast. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at 12up.com, and has been covering MLB and NFL for 10 years. He was also a headline and features contributor at ClickHole and Onion Sports, as well as the Associate Producer of the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Believeland". An avowed fan of the New York sports teams -- specifically the Yankees -- as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels, you can find Adam complaining mid-game on Twitter, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if the game goes really poorly.