Bronx, NY – ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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ESPN told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Sept. 27 game was returning to its original start time of 1 p.m. EDT. It had been changed to 8 p.m. to accommodate ESPN’s schedule; Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and atonement, begins at sundown that evening.
“I am pleased we were able to resolve this sensitive issue that impacted many baseball fans and are able to move the game at Yankee Stadium to 1 p.m.,” Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement, crediting ESPN for helping to “solve this conflict.” ESPN will still televise the game.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., had sent a letter to Selig and ESPN President George Bodenheimer urging the game be returned to its original afternoon start time.
“There’s no reason why the largest Jewish community in the country should be punished for a last-minute scheduling swap,” Weiner wrote in the letter.
Weiner told the AP that he had spoken with Selig earlier in the day. “He said he agreed, and that he had heard from his own rabbi, that this was a problem,” Weiner said. “He said he was riding ESPN to change their position.”
“It was a basic thing that they can do to be sensitive, and the right thing was done,” he added.
The congressman said that ESPN had the contractual right to change the starting time. “There is the contract, there is the major league rule book, but then there is a higher authority that was dictating a lot of this for fans,” he said.
Earlier this year, the NFL agreed to move the start time of the New York Jets’ home game against the Tennessee Titans on the same day from 4:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. That change was made after Jets owner Woody Johnson sent a letter to commissioner Roger Goodell suggesting the switch, so that fans could arrive home before sundown, (as was reported at that time here on VIN News).
now weiner will have to go to shul YK night or look stupid:)
FYI both Selig and Wiener daven kol n
idray.
“Weiner told the AP that ESPN and major-league baseball had done the right thing.”
Like weiner knows what is the “right thing”…..
Great. Those of us in beantown will now be able to watch the great comeback.
Weiner’s mother is not Jewish.
What about mincha and seuda hamafsakes on erev yom kipur
Where are the priorities?!
See That, No demonstrations, nobody getting run over by Tanks or throing rocks just a simple letter, Y cant our isreali brothers
Learn a thing or 2. a little diplomacy goes a long way.With violance who gains?
There are nebach many empty and ignorant beings in the younger jewish religious community that care more about this boring stupid game than thora or jewish history or geography or anything intellectuali. Just try to have a conversation with one of them about important domestic or international affairs and you will see what i am talking about,
MAMESH A KIDUSH HASHEM ! shame on us to make a issue about this in the holliest day of the year ! WIENER as a spokesman of klal yisruel thanx a lot , now we’ll be able to hear / watch the yankees & upon completion go to KOL NIDRIE what an acomplishment lucky we’ve jewish represntion at city hall
i realy dont understand y thay have to switch, witch yid who goes to kol nidry is interesting in the yankys?
See That, No demonstrations, nobody getting run over by Tanks or throing rocks just a simple letter, Y cant our isreali brothers
Learn a thing or 2. a little diplomacy goes a long way.With violance who gains?
I don’t know why everyone is being so sarcastic, would you prefer that many Yidden watch a ballgame on Yom Kippur? At least they are making a statement that Yom Kippur is an important day? Who knows, maybe some people will now be encouraged to go to shul. No need to knock this. It is definitely a good thing.
Weinner heard from his own Rabbi…. What’s this Rabbis opinion about his Arabic stupid wife
B”H they changed the schedule.
great now we can go straight from the yankee game into kol nidrei.
Not to state an opinion either way on the methods used by our Israeli “ultra-orthodox” brethren, but while a little diplomacy goes a long way in a country such as this one (the USA, a medina shel chesed), it is an entirely different “Ball-game” in Israel, so there is no comparison.
sucha kookoo people!
erev yom kuper thay don’t have batter to for hoshem only yanky’s,
I don’t have a batter word then ‘KOOKOO!’…
i dont understand why all the negative feedback so many jews from players organization management and media would have been affected. The less melacha and zilzul of the day the better. We should all be thankful this was resolved. Furthermore whill it would be nice not to have a game on any shabbos or yomtov why deny them this opportunity of somewhat trying to feel closer to hashem.
Instead of collecting tzedakah erev Yom Kippur in shul, maybe some organizations would get a bigger donation by advertising during half-time.
It’s a beautiful kiddush Hashem. Baseball is a good clean sport. People who arent fans can’t understand the excitement of it. You can’t explain it. Don’t even try.
Go Yankees !
BS”D
I live in the Bronx and someone just called me to find out when Kol Nidrey starts. they live out of town and his daughter had scheduled attending this game and he is coming with her – and now they can both keep YK. even only for these two yidden it was worth it for all 50,000 people to move the schedule, for the politicians to get involved, etc. etc.
Our involvement is through showing appreciation to the ones who put in the effort and respecting their dedication to yidden and yidishkeit; down the line it will lead to more kidush HaShem and the growth of yidishkeit.
The picture accompanying the article shows the Red Sox celebrating. Heh. This warms the cockles of my heart (whatever those may be).
For all those who would like to know who Anthony Weiner is engaged to, please read the following.
Huma M. Abedin (born 1976) is an aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who served as traveling chief of staff and “body woman” during Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.
Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her Indian born father was a Muslim and Middle Eastern scholar who died when she was 17 years old, and her Pakistani born mother is a professor in Saudi Arabia.[1] At the age of two, her family relocated to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abedin returned to the United States to attend George Washington University. She was elected to serve as President of the Pakistani Student Association at GW for the 1995-96 term, and with her Vice President, MS student Abbas Zaidi, lobbied in favor of the Pressler Amendment at Capitol Hill in the late summer of 1995.
Huma Abedin began working as an intern for the White House in 1996 and landed an assignment with the First Lady. She has since risen to the role of Hillary Clinton’s right-hand woman. She currently works for Clinton at the State Department.
She is currently engaged to Rep. Anthony Weiner.
last time they tried to schedule a game on yom kippor Sandy koufax wouldnt play. so they should have remembered