Now you can eat all you want at the game

Crisis narrowly averted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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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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.