Exactly, and also brand the players more. Young fans more often root for players than they do teams. Players bring narratives which is what people need nowadays in order to watch a game in which their team isn't playing. The NFL doesn't need narratives to sell (even tho espn constantly manufactures stories because of the sports popularity) because the games are so scarce and most of the league plays on one day which people have time for. In an era where there's so many cable channels, netflix, Hulu you have to give people a story so they have an incentive to watch a game where there teams are not playing.
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Exactly, and also brand the players more. Young fans more often root for players than they do teams. Players bring narratives which is what people need nowadays in order to watch a game in which their team isn't playing. The NFL doesn't need narratives to sell (even tho espn constantly manufactures stories because of the sports popularity) because the games are so scarce and most of the league plays on one day which people have time for. In an era where there's so many cable channels, netflix, Hulu you have to give people a story so they have an incentive to watch a game where there teams are not playing.
THASTUNNA
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There's already too many interleague games
the point of the unbalanced schedule to have more games in the division so that divisional opponents don't whine about there being lack of opportunities to catch up in a long race.
The only way the Dodgers and Yankees should ever meet is in a World Series anyway
The Houston Astros also LOSE 100 games a year. You don't think that's kinda the cause for the apathy?
That's like saying the NBA's going up shyt's creek because nobody tunes in to watch the Bucks.
Also because of the CSN bullshyt that is going on. Most people in Houston don't have Comcast as there cable provider. So we can't watch the Astros nor the Rockets without Comcast
i think all they need to do is make steriod violations less of a media spectical.
nothing ruins my interest in the game more than turning on the tv and discovering that the media is lamblasting my favorite player nonstop.
if they break the rule keep it in house. punish them quietly and keep it moving. instead of banning or suspending just fine them a bunch of money.
nothing ruins my interest in the game more than turning on the tv and discovering that the media is lamblasting my favorite player nonstop.
if they break the rule keep it in house. punish them quietly and keep it moving. instead of banning or suspending just fine them a bunch of money.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
So long story short, just let em take illegal drugs, ok.
They actually used to do this, but then bodies started dropping and lawsuits got made
Baseball (while being's america's past time, i guess) just doesn't appeal to people 35 and under like it used to. That's just reality. Once baby boomers starting dying off then what. You already have a dramatic decrease in african americans playing the sport. What's next?
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All that is arbitrary. Football can just as much of a drag as Baseball. And the funny thing is that offense is what's making it more appealing(to casuals). Which is what gave baseball a surge in popularity in the 90's.
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tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Why are you worried about the viability of a sport long after you're dead?
the next guy
Superstar
There is nothing wrong with interleague. Number one, the NL needs to realize that it's the 21st century and adopt the DH. Two, every other welcome the NY-NY Chi-Chi, Bay Area rivalries well so why doesn't baseball. They should be milking Mets-Yankees.
hopefully the end of the game as we know it
NYSTATEOFMIND
Superstar
I don't think baseball is dying because that would imply at some point the sport itself will die and have no support which will never happen
but it has taken a fukking Monster L to the NFL and the things that people love about the NFL are the things baseball lacks so the problems are magnified
1. 162 games is too goddam long- somehow when i was a teenager I didnt mind it but now that i am older with a job and shyt to do..i cant watch all those games and be into every single game with the same energy
2.The sport has become way too regional, the perception is only a hand full of teams really have a shot at the world series ( Yank, Red Sox, Cards, Dodgers, SF and always one random small market club that comes outta grandmas anus to make a splash)
3 The cost to go see a game ,in decent to great seats, is astronomical. Yes you can take a family of 4 to Yankees stadium for 80 bucks but you will have shytty seats, and still have to pay your left nut for parking and 8-10 bucks for a grinded up insides wrapped in a casing called a hotdog. Now seeing an NFL game is silly expensive BUT you only have to pick from 8 home games as opposed to 81
4 Baseball doesnt translate well on television as it once did ( this loops back to ticket prices) the only people you see behind home plate or on the 3rd and 1st baseline are generally the rich stiffs who barely care and dont rev up the stadium because...well they are old and barely give a fukk...the lack of energy doesnt help the TV product. With the NFL you dont really see the crowd unless they scan the audience on 3rd down or something
5 Warning..race related..lets keep it real...we need more bruhs in baseball...i need to see athleticism...double steals...steal home base....crazy catches and when he does all those amazing plays..when you interview him after...i would like to understand what he is saying
but it has taken a fukking Monster L to the NFL and the things that people love about the NFL are the things baseball lacks so the problems are magnified
1. 162 games is too goddam long- somehow when i was a teenager I didnt mind it but now that i am older with a job and shyt to do..i cant watch all those games and be into every single game with the same energy
2.The sport has become way too regional, the perception is only a hand full of teams really have a shot at the world series ( Yank, Red Sox, Cards, Dodgers, SF and always one random small market club that comes outta grandmas anus to make a splash)
3 The cost to go see a game ,in decent to great seats, is astronomical. Yes you can take a family of 4 to Yankees stadium for 80 bucks but you will have shytty seats, and still have to pay your left nut for parking and 8-10 bucks for a grinded up insides wrapped in a casing called a hotdog. Now seeing an NFL game is silly expensive BUT you only have to pick from 8 home games as opposed to 81
4 Baseball doesnt translate well on television as it once did ( this loops back to ticket prices) the only people you see behind home plate or on the 3rd and 1st baseline are generally the rich stiffs who barely care and dont rev up the stadium because...well they are old and barely give a fukk...the lack of energy doesnt help the TV product. With the NFL you dont really see the crowd unless they scan the audience on 3rd down or something
5 Warning..race related..lets keep it real...we need more bruhs in baseball...i need to see athleticism...double steals...steal home base....crazy catches and when he does all those amazing plays..when you interview him after...i would like to understand what he is saying
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Because aside from Mets fans, nobody looks forward to the Subway Series. The Yankees can't stand playing the Mets because they're in a no win situation.
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I honestly would love to go back to the who ever has the best regular season record gets to go The World Series format but there's too much money being left out for that to happen.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
You can apply this to any sport minus football and God forbid your team sucks ass there too.
Well this is absolutely false. Just because they're arguably the best run teams doesn't mean they're the only ones with a shot. Ask Tampa Bay.
You can say this about sports, period.
and depending on the team, because there's 81 home games, you will find some CHEAP ass games.
Again, this can be said about EVERY sport
Homework assignment: Follow Billy Hamilton's rookie year. Get back to us in a year and tell me if you feel the same way.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
No there ain't. The World Series host coming from the ASG wasn't stemmed from finances. It was stemmed from the tie.