Dodgers/Red Sox was 3rd Worst Rated World Series Ever

[panopticon]

i love how people dont think it can happen. 60 years ago most people travelled by sea and train not air, milk was delivered by a milk man and black people never had civil rights.

Most people who care about baseball passionately are old people who remember listening to a old cac on the radio, going to a game and scoring a baseball game

this generation is totally different, people's attention span is shorter, kids and teens would rather watch youtube or exciting sports or play fortnite than sit and watch a game that you don't know if its goign to end in 2.5 hours or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6

Baseball is in a rough place right now.

Ultimately, its a sport that depends on an audience with enormous amounts of free time and scheduling flexibility. Two things working people have less and less of these days.

Working / middle class brehs no longer have the luxury of commuting on more or less traffic-free roads, clocking in at the factory, and clocking out exactly 8 hours later...with damn near a full 8 hours of leisure time available to blow on whatever.

Now, if you're working or middle class, you're working 2 jobs to stay afloat. And if you're white collar...you're expected to be available well into the evening.

And all that is before the changes in how the game is played, the lack of exciting stars, etc.

 

[Professor K.]

Baseball is gonna experience a resurgence as more kids stop playing football. They're not all gonna go play soccer(still not there yet)or basketball(most too short) so the 2020s will be full of football-level athletes

 

[MenacingMonk]

You could tell based on the WS thread. shyt barely moved.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Baseball is

Watching baseball is like watching your grass grow. Like watching a day-time tv show on a sick day and just wishing you were at work. So boring you would rather clip your toe nails or go to bed because at least that would be more enjoyable than watching 3 plus hours of

 

[#1 pick]

Sightly off topic, but this is dope

I used to love this game

 

[Rigby.]

No way shyt can survive with attention spans. hell I find the Lakers as the most, maybe only, interesting team I enjoy setting the schedule clear and watching in basketball (not a knock against the rest of the L) and Ill still flash to do sumn else during particularly dry times. Thats just how nikkas are these days, for the most part

baseball as a sport isnt meant to survive, this is really just naturally selection. Itll probably eventually be replaced by...who knows

side note: I dont be having shyt to do 80% of the day, but I cant think of anything that would waste more time than staying up for an 18 inning baseball game

 

[bl2k8]

That’s pretty bad considering you had two legacy franchises and two big ass markets that care about baseball

 

[yseJ]

It's just a sport where if your team isn't in it, you don't watch. Just not exciting enough for most people.

this. the only reason I watched any of WS was because I hate the dodgers if dodgers or my Giants or A's (bay area love) arent in it Im prolly not watching or barely watching

 

[High quality poster]

Let’s be honest. We know why.

No marketable black stars.

If Mike Trout died right next to me I wouldn’t know who the fukk he was.

They better hope the Yankees dynasty returns

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

They thought baseball was damn near dead 10+ years ago and it made a come back. I think this year's ratings has to so with the resurgence of NFL, whose ratings are up for the first time in a long while.

 

[Wiirdo]

The national ratings are down but locally the ratings are great and the talent pool at the moment might be deeper than ever, and will only get better as more kids move from football to baseball and the continuing development of the sport in Latin America.

 

[luvaznpoon]

I didn't watch a single minute.

 

[King Poetic]

1. Who’s the black superstars that’s recognizable for the black audience... none

2. U have games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday which people are at high school football games on Friday, care more about college football on Saturday and Sunday is the NFL

3. Baseball been long gone as America’s pastime and more of local or regional past time

 

[Actually6Foot3]

Didn't watch a single game for more than an inning. And I love baseball. This shyt was uncompetitive for the most part and boring.

Cubs v Indians was a great fukking WS. Game 7 is still the best game I've ever watched.

Baseball also has the issue of no starpower. People only want to watch THEIR team play. And I'm one of them. If it ain't my team I'm probably not watching when it comes to baseball. This is the exact opposite for football and basketball where I'm eager to watch teams that aren't even mine play.

 

[broller]

1. Who’s the black superstars that’s recognizable for the black audience... none

2. U have games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday which people are at high school football games on Friday, care more about college football on Saturday and Sunday is the NFL

3. Baseball been long gone as America’s pastime and more of local or regional past time

#1 is true. Early to mid 90s had lots of Black American stars: Ken Griffey Jr, Barry Bonds, Albert Belle, Tony Gwynn, Joe Carter, Devon White, Frank Thomas, Ozzie Smith, Kenny Lofton, Daryl Strawberry, Mo and Greg Vaughn etc

Now I barely know any baseball players. For a sport where players' faces are visible, there are very few players I know by face. Hell back then the white stars were recognizable too (Ripken, Canseco, McGwire