Has the MLB lapped the NBA?

[Negro Caesar]

It’s also because of the culture. Baseball players don’t lend themselves as well to the soap operas and the conflicts. For the most part they are all friends.

I dont think thats true. Baseball ready to clear benches for any reason. Ive saw more baseball fights than any other sport than hockey.

 

[The God Poster]

Absolutely, I watched WAY more cubs games than bulls. You can’t even watch the bulls if you live in Chicago without an antenna like it’s its 1972 or xfinity

Fukk the nba ,hate this bytch ass league now

I’m a casual you need 8 streaming services to watch this wakk ass league. League dead , sad situation I’ll maybe watch the playoffs

Being in GOAT city & willingly watching the sucka ass Cubs

 

[god shamgod]

Being in GOAT city & willingly watching the sucka ass Cubs

What’s the alternative the white sox? Back to back 100 loss seasons

 

[Dorian Breh]

I dont think thats true. Baseball ready to clear benches for any reason. Ive saw more baseball fights than any other sport than hockey.

They don’t actually do shyt tho

 

[Negro Caesar]

They don’t actually do shyt tho

Who does? Ive saw more hands thrown in baseball than football ( helmet grabbing) , and basketball (holding each other back)

Baseball players will hit ur ass with a 95mph fastball if u look at ur hr too long. Thats like a nikka im basketball fouling u because u had a nice dunk. Never happens.

 

[Dorian Breh]

Who does? Ive saw more hands thrown in baseball than football ( helmet grabbing) , and basketball (holding each other back)

Baseball players will hit ur ass with a 95mph fastball if u look at ur hr too long. Thats like a nikka im basketball fouling u because u had a nice dunk. Never happens.

I mean when hockey players fight they really swing

Just they hitting each other in the helmet hurts their hands more than the other guys head

I can think of three punches that have landed in baseball in the last decade. Football definitely has more punches.

Basketball yea they don’t know how to fight but will try to choke each other and shyt you don’t see that in baseball (Happened once like 30+ years ago and still gets talked about).

Also basketball they kick each other in the nuts and elbow in the face all the time and it’s just a common foul

 

[Piff Perkins]

Ultimately both leagues have a lot of the same problems, perhaps most pressing: a lot of people cannot just turn on the TV and watch their home team. You gotta download an app or pay a fee just to watch a random game your squad is playing on any day of the week. That's pathetic and you can't build a fanbase or maintain one like that.

I will give MLB credit for still offering affordable tickets, unlike the NBA or NFL. You shouldn't have to pay $200+ to go see a fukking game.

 

[Saint1]

They need a salary floor. No reason why some teams have 100 million dollar payrolls and the pirates payroll is 3 dollars. Hell even our owner with the tigers is cheap af unlike his dad

I always hear that cap bullshyt. "It's not fair"
it's no other team's fault your team ain't paying its players.

With Skubal right now they're bullshytting. They don't want to lock him up now and they're gonna look twice at the new rate

 

[murksiderock]

Guys are in here deflecting to TV and money and shyt. MLB has been a better product than MVP since they instituted the pitch clock, the playoffs have been better, etc. Basically like 2 years running, the actual product has been better.

 

[Sccit]

FUCC ADAM SILVER, YA HEARD ME?

 

[FakeNews]

a staple of ESPN’s MLB coverage for nearly four decades that is slated to move to NBC next season, was up 21 percent with an average viewing audience of 1.8 million fans. That’s the best Sunday Night Baseball has drawn since 2012.

Fox, meanwhile, was up nine percent with a 2.04 million average. TBS had a 29 percent increase with an average of 462,000 viewers.


Compared to the NBA

NBA regular season averaged 1.53 million viewers across ABC, ESPN and TNT, down two percent from last year. ESPN and ABC combined to average 1.71 million viewers for the regular season, the same as last year, with ABC in particular up 10 percent to 2.68 million. The broadcast network increase helped offset declines on cable, with ESPN and TNT each averaging 1.3 million.


So basically the MLB averaged more viewers on ESPN. While the NBA averaged more viewers on Turner and network TV.

 

[Blessings]

a staple of ESPN’s MLB coverage for nearly four decades that is slated to move to NBC next season, was up 21 percent with an average viewing audience of 1.8 million fans. That’s the best Sunday Night Baseball has drawn since 2012.

Fox, meanwhile, was up nine percent with a 2.04 million average. TBS had a 29 percent increase with an average of 462,000 viewers.


Compared to the NBA

NBA regular season averaged 1.53 million viewers across ABC, ESPN and TNT, down two percent from last year. ESPN and ABC combined to average 1.71 million viewers for the regular season, the same as last year, with ABC in particular up 10 percent to 2.68 million. The broadcast network increase helped offset declines on cable, with ESPN and TNT each averaging 1.3 million.


So basically the MLB averaged more viewers on ESPN. While the NBA averaged more viewers on Turner and network TV.

What's the per-game average?

 

[Soldier]

Ultimately both leagues have a lot of the same problems, perhaps most pressing: a lot of people cannot just turn on the TV and watch their home team. You gotta download an app or pay a fee just to watch a random game your squad is playing on any day of the week. That's pathetic and you can't build a fanbase or maintain one like that.

I will give MLB credit for still offering affordable tickets, unlike the NBA or NFL. You shouldn't have to pay $200+ to go see a fukking game.

True. Anybody can watch NFL games for free on the same big over the air accessible channels available to everyone .(Fox, abc, cbs, nbc) It also helps that most NFL games are scheduled once a week on the same day(Sunday) at reasonable hours. You can watch all your games of your favorite team from anywhere. You don’t need to live in the state of Michigan just to be able to watch Lions games. You can be a resident of Texas and still be able to watch your Lions.

The scarcity of games and schedule structure of the season also help their popularity. The NFL schedule easily fits into most people’s lives. People are busy and don’t have much free time for themselves anymore. can’t afford to be 24/7 sports fans with expertise, passion and knowledge about every sport on earth. People are tired from work/ life duties and have already lower attention spans than 25-30 years because of modern smartphones/ internet/technology/social media/living. We have also endless distractions and entertainment options at our disposal compared to 30 years ago. And unlike the other three major sports leagues in North America, following the NFL doesn’t require as much time, energy, and investment. 17 games spread over 5 months. The NFL Playoffs last a month with games every weekend of January and early February .

NBA, MLB and NHL have 5x-10x more games than the NFL. And people can’t watch most of them on TV because of regional blackouts. Fans who watch to follow their teams have to live in the same areas where the teams play, have to watch games on multiple obscure channels(FOX, NBC, ESPN, Apple TV, TNT, etc) and subscribe monthly to obscure and expensive regional/local sports networks just to have access to their games. And for MLB, NHL, NBA owners, this kind of local gatekeeping might be financially profitable short term, but it won’t grow the fanbase, bring new fans to the team/sport and keep the actual fanbase. How can people enjoy a sports product, and develop serious and deep loyalty and emotional attachment to a team if sports team owners make it hard for fans to watch the games of their local teams?

Shortsighted Greed is never the answer for longterm success. It will only hurt any sports league not named the NFL at the end because they don’t cater to their actual customers/fans and actively repel future ones. The NFL is on top of the sports world in North America because they make it easy and convenient for people to enjoy and follow their product above anything. They obey the most important rule in business/service industry/entertainment : the customer is always right, give him/her what he/she wants. He/she will be happy and you’ll get their money . Both sides will be happy with such a deal.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Every year they drop these numbers right before the playoffs start when they know games are going to be sold out and people fall for it every year

That's like the nba waiting until the playoffs start to be like "look at how much viewership is up"

What was that viewership looking like on April 17th

Lmao right, people were making all those stupid doomsday posts comparing early season numbers to full season numbers

 

[Soldier]

Locally/regionally, MLB is probably more popular than NBA in most cities with teams in both leagues .
Heat, Warriors, Knicks, Nuggets, Lakers, Mavericks and Suns are the exceptions.

In the Bay Area : Warriors > SF Giants/Athletics,
In Phoenix: Suns > Diamondbacks
In Miami : Heat > Marlins
In Denver : Nuggets > Rockies
In Dallas : Mavs > Rangers.

In NYC: Yankees > Knicks > Mets> Nets
In LA: Lakers > Dodgers> Angels > Clippers

Are Cavs more popular than Guardians? Pistons more popular than Tigers? Timberwolves more popular than Twins?