The table is set. The schedule has been made known for the people of Los Angeles. Friday night, October 25, is a very special night. At 5:08 p.m. in LA, the Dodgers host the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the 2024 World Series. At roughly 8:10 p.m., USC football hosts Rutgers in a Friday night special. Both games are on Fox Sports, which invites the possibility that the USC game will be pre-empted by baseball. It all depends on how long the World Series game will last.
This does raise a question: How many Los Angeles residents — or maybe even Yankee fans who are also Rutgers fans — will try to pull off the Dodgers-USC double on Friday? The Los Angeles Coliseum and Dodger Stadium are not that far apart. Traffic figures to be nasty throughout Friday night in the Los Angeles area, so no one who is contemplating going to the USC football game after the Dodger game is expecting to make it in time for kickoff of the Trojans’ game versus Rutgers. The reasonable expectation is to arrive late in the first quarter, maybe even early in the second.
A question we have to ask: If Game 1 of the World Series is somewhat lopsided — let’s say four runs in the seventh inning — will a USC fan leave Dodger Stadium for the Coliseum? Will a Rutgers fan leave the Yankees at Chavez Ravine and go to the Coli?
It’s obvious that if the World Series game is tense, thrilling and close, that game will earn and demand everyone’s attention until the final out. The odds of being able to pull off the Dodgers-USC double will increase to the extent that one team is able to take a massive lead midway through Game 1 of the World Series. It will be quite a night in Los Angeles, that’s for sure.
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