said this before on here and got attacked by the baseball stans. nba has stars that the casual fan will tune in to. baseball lacks the charistmatic stars they had in the 90s imo.Baseball lookin
NBA Finals Ratings vs MLB World Series ratings 2013
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mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
evidence?
Illuminatos
#OVOXO
@ those NFL regular season ratings.
Yeah i was thinking beijing would be an amazing attraction and business for the nba
NBA could hold it in Spain and eat something serious or if they really wanna show off they could do it in China and have a million people at the game.
there is to much soccer leagues for the premier league to stand out as its own as the most popular league in the world.
The nba is the most popular league worldwide
you disagree?:
clinging to the old sport of baseball
baseball is dying, its demographics are old, less and less people are signing up to play it.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
so you have no evidence. just checking.
The Premier League is the most popular league in the world and most watched every week. This isnt up for debate. The big advantage they have over the NBA is the fact that the GMT timezone is pretty much the center of the world so everyone can watch at various times of the day without stretching their neck.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Baseball has done a terrible job marketing their stars. Instead of pushing guys like Miggy and Trout and McCutchen they are "cleaning up the sport" and going after every big star they had.
evidence?
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
It's that, and MLB doesn't care to push star over team (I can agree to that though; the teams are the main attraction). They could do to market players better, but I also see it like this: In football and basketball, we kinda grow up watching these guys from the time they're in high school. Andrew Wiggins is damn near a household name and he hasn't played a college game yet. We knew Teddy Bridgewater as a sophomore. It's hard to get that kind of feeling only hearing bits and pieces about a player on the come up. For example, IMO, Mason Williams is gonna be that next Yankee phenom. He won't have that kind of following til he either puts up monster numbers in the pros or blows Rihanna's back out (and that didn't pan out that well for Matt Kemp). Matt Harvey didn't become Matt Harvey til he made it and succeeded in NY, whereas Mark Sanchez played a handful of games at USC and conned the Jets as well as the country into thinking he was gonna be the next Broadway Joe.
MLB hasn't changed how they market. There just happens to be 1000x more dikkriders in American society than there used to be 20 years ago, so fans would rather follow a player aggressively than the team they play on.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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I'm with you on that breh that the Sox, Yanks and Dodgers.. probably Cubbies are the main attraction BUT when I was growing up EVERYONE knew Griffey, Bonds and Thomas...etc. They were colossal stars. They were stars that people would go out of their way to watch. There's nobody like that anymore.
The War Report
NewNewYork
Mike Trout can be on that level if he played for The Yankees/Red Sox/Dodgers. Look at the Yasiel Puig mania the country had when he was beasting straight out of the gate. Like I've said, baseball doesn't reward the casual, dikkriding fan that's looking to hop on a player's coattails. The MLB has a lot of young talented players playing on a high level, more than I can remember. People just want to be fukking spoon fed and not put in the time to actually get to know these dudes. It's this instant gratification phase this country is going through.
THE MACHINE
night owl
Not all all breh, I posted it to big up the NBA.
#noexcuses you either want to watch the World Series or you don't. I'm a fan of all three sports. If the NBA finals were on against my favorite NFL team in the regular season I would watch the Finals. If my team were playing against the World Series I would watch football. Baseball just has to accept its place as third in the pecking order.
There's nothing to overrate, all they do is generate an estimation of how many people are watching. It allows you to gauge if what you were watching was as epic as you thought.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
That's not necessarily on baseball. That's just on the players being dry (at least some of these colossal stars).
Some of these guys are already big time marketed stars in other places, but language barrier /whatever else hinders it here. For some of the guys here, it's like, "how do you make Curtis Granderson a big time personality that transcends baseball?" He makes Tim Duncan look like LeBron James. Admittedly, some of the American born baseball players are dry as fukk. The ones that aren't are either a) not as good or b) neutered by "the unwritten rules." Things would change a little bit if players weren't so sensitive on the field. You do that, Yasiel Puig will turn into a MASSIVE star in sports. He's already made Kobe a stan of his
FloorGeneral
I don't even know anymore...
I don't wanna call you a liar, but, it's a hell of alot easier to say this, as you know it will NEVER happen. Know what I did Sunday Night, with the Packers on NBC, and the World Series on FOX? The World Series got bumped to the Radio, while the Packers got the TV. Now, that only happens with the Packers. If it was any other team, I would've (and did) watched the World Series.
The NBA Finals don't have #FootballProblems, so there's no decisions like that to make, and for you to ignore that factor shows how out of touch you are with the way this country thinks when it comes to sports, especially football.
