We wait all year for our Red Sox to make the playoffs, and it comes on so late that the working person or our youth cannot stay awake long enough to see the game.

My guess is that 80 percent of the country will watch the Red Sox-Yankees series. The other time zones will be able to stay awake for the whole game, but the people who support the two combatants will be comatose by the third or fourth inning.

Are there more commercials between innings this year and between pitching changes than last year, or is it my imagination?

Who needs the pre-game show that rehashes information we’ve heard at least a 100 times. The ratings are probably high only because we are waiting for the game to start!

I hope bosses and teachers go easy on their constituents as they wearily try to make it through the day. Wouldn’t you have thought that one of the games would have been on at 4 p.m.?

Solution: Play at 6 p.m. with no pre-game gibberish and let the West Coast tape it so they can watch it after work, while East Coast patrons can enjoy our national pastime until the end and not be bleary-eyed the next day.

Is common sense a thing of the past, or should we all take a four hour nap after work?

George A. Ferguson,

Sabattus