It’s not like there was anything else happening on Tuesday night.

At least somebody announced the final results of voting

If you had some news you wanted to bury, Tuesday night was the perfect night to drop it. NASA could have announced it had discovered wolves the size of pickup trucks on the surface of Neptune and it would have gone completely unnoticed. 

And yet, at 8 p.m. ET, as polls in 17 states closed, Baseball Tonight’s Gold Glove announcement show was just getting started. 

Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty was among those who thought it was a little weird. 

There’s probably a reasonable explanation for why the show was scheduled for Election Day. ESPN, for example, couldn’t air the announcement in primetime on Monday or Wednesday because of live football obligations. Perhaps the network wanted something to air in the 8 p.m. on Tuesday and figured the awards show was good low-stakes counter-programming to