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Yankees Talk: The World Baseball Classic Pacific Time Bias

This year’s World Baseball Classic has honestly been pretty fantastic — especially the quarterfinal matchups. But most of the U.S. is unaware because recent games are being held in San Diego, and don’t begin until a little after 10 PM Eastern Time. For Yankees fans, most of us are out like a light by the time the fourth inning rolls around.

The scheduling of this tournament has been rather curious by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. In a continued effort to grow the game of baseball, the WBSC continues to neglect a bonafide larger portion of baseball viewers across major baseball markets in the U.