Revenue. MLB generates waaaaaaaaaaay more revenue than the NBA
Olbermann Breaks Down MLB's Awful TV Ratings
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first of all, 7 Billion to 5 Billion isnt waaaaaaaaaay more revenue.
2nd of all, the local tv deals is the only reason baseball makes that kinda revenue..... but like i said, and which u tried to ignore, the NBA is bigger than MLB in terms of national interest, social media, tv ratings, stars, worldwide,apparal etc.
MLB is SOHH status
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
at the same time, the greats in baseball...don't really match up physically to the greats in other sports,or their feats.
the casual fan doesn't understand how rare it is for somebody like Aroldis Chapman to throw 106....but a nikka who's 6"8" 260 and has a 40" vertical that can dunk from the free throw line is something that damn near anyone can understand/appreciate.
the anonymity that baseball players enjoy, is a byproduct of MLB's lack/inability to market it's stars....silver lining i guess.
Couple things, if you compare the top rated tv shows with the ratings of the top tv shows of lets say the 90s, the top tv shows of the 90s dwarfs the numbers of the tv shows today. Thats cuz there so much more programming and thats just on tv, we not even talking about the internet which is also taking ratings away. In comparison with everything else on tv baseball's post season still beats out most things on tv other than football. Football's the only thing that probably draws higher ratings today than its ever had before. If you look at the post season ratings for the last few rounds this year, TBS and Fox won the ratings war (again other than nights when it was competing with football)
People still like baseball as you can see from attendance being higher in the last ten years than its ever been, local tv ratings which trump basketball and hockey, mlb at bat app which is the highest selling sports app out there, and the sucess of mlb.tv. The problem baseball has on a national level is an easily fixable problem. Since the PED era they don't really have any household names anymore despite the fact that there's so many great young players on the come-up. This is cuz baseball doesn't market it stars right. Before the PED thing got exposed baseball players garnered national attention because the mvp, batting title, and cy young's were the most well known and prestigious awards of all the sports. The NFL had the ratings, the NBA had the sponsorships, but baseball had the legendary stats. The PED kinda fukked up the only thing baseball had to brand itself nationally. Now Miguel Cabrera could hit for the triple crown, and Chris Davis could hit 37 home runs before the all star break and its ho hum cuz everyone thinks they may not be clean. Luckily baseball will get another commissioner in 2015 that could learn how to market the game to a younger audience. I liken where baseball is at to where the NBA was in the early 2000s when only west coast teams were dominant, and the eastern conference was terrible, and NBA players didn't get coverage cuz they had a "thug" image and then they turned it around by having superstars join up. Baseball isn't the talk of the sports world right now, and its still drawing more money than it ever has before so its future's fine.
Finally, to the "baseball fans" who won't watch a post-season game if there team isn't in it. If ya got nothing to do, and theres no other sports on why wouldn't u wanna watch post-season baseball even if your team isn't in it. High stakes sports games like the post-season are better than anything on tv cuz of the drama. I could understand if you don't like baseball period but damn post-season baseball when its competitive is some of the most dramatic things you can see
To the "sports fans" out there. I understand why some would find baseball boring during the regular season cuz of the amount of games and the laid back atmostphere, but post-season baseball is a whole different animal. The fact that theres no clock adds to the drama, things that might make the game seem slow like a hitter stepping out the box in the middle of the at bat might seem to make the game drag in the regular season, but in the post-season it creates great moments of tension cuz the crowds are rowdy and are always on their feet and the anticipation of what could happen next is crazy cuz baseball is so scenario driven. A hitter could hit a home run, double play, sacrifice fly, strike out, pop up. You can't run out the clock so everything needs to be executed. Football's only played 3 days a week, and the NBA season doesn't jump off until the very end of the world series. If you enjoy sports drama watch these playoffs brehs.
People still like baseball as you can see from attendance being higher in the last ten years than its ever been, local tv ratings which trump basketball and hockey, mlb at bat app which is the highest selling sports app out there, and the sucess of mlb.tv. The problem baseball has on a national level is an easily fixable problem. Since the PED era they don't really have any household names anymore despite the fact that there's so many great young players on the come-up. This is cuz baseball doesn't market it stars right. Before the PED thing got exposed baseball players garnered national attention because the mvp, batting title, and cy young's were the most well known and prestigious awards of all the sports. The NFL had the ratings, the NBA had the sponsorships, but baseball had the legendary stats. The PED kinda fukked up the only thing baseball had to brand itself nationally. Now Miguel Cabrera could hit for the triple crown, and Chris Davis could hit 37 home runs before the all star break and its ho hum cuz everyone thinks they may not be clean. Luckily baseball will get another commissioner in 2015 that could learn how to market the game to a younger audience. I liken where baseball is at to where the NBA was in the early 2000s when only west coast teams were dominant, and the eastern conference was terrible, and NBA players didn't get coverage cuz they had a "thug" image and then they turned it around by having superstars join up. Baseball isn't the talk of the sports world right now, and its still drawing more money than it ever has before so its future's fine.
Finally, to the "baseball fans" who won't watch a post-season game if there team isn't in it. If ya got nothing to do, and theres no other sports on why wouldn't u wanna watch post-season baseball even if your team isn't in it. High stakes sports games like the post-season are better than anything on tv cuz of the drama. I could understand if you don't like baseball period but damn post-season baseball when its competitive is some of the most dramatic things you can see
To the "sports fans" out there. I understand why some would find baseball boring during the regular season cuz of the amount of games and the laid back atmostphere, but post-season baseball is a whole different animal. The fact that theres no clock adds to the drama, things that might make the game seem slow like a hitter stepping out the box in the middle of the at bat might seem to make the game drag in the regular season, but in the post-season it creates great moments of tension cuz the crowds are rowdy and are always on their feet and the anticipation of what could happen next is crazy cuz baseball is so scenario driven. A hitter could hit a home run, double play, sacrifice fly, strike out, pop up. You can't run out the clock so everything needs to be executed. Football's only played 3 days a week, and the NBA season doesn't jump off until the very end of the world series. If you enjoy sports drama watch these playoffs brehs.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
They lost the casual fan on TV but I feel like they're probably neck and neck with the NBA for causal fans attending games. The season is the easy, relatively, cheap outdoor drinking activity for a lot of middle - upper middle income folks from 22-44...just going off empirical evidence, it seems like between corporate tix and/or just wanting something to do, I see a good 60-70% of my friends hitting up baseball games in the late spring - sept.
In fact, I'd like to see their revenue streams as opposed to football and basketball.
But overall, baseball isn't much fun to watch and it is a marketing thing, they haven't built up national stories/stars/and teams at this point the same way basketball and football has. I watch the WS when the giants played, but I wouldn't even know what/who I'm watching if I tuned in this series. If they tackle the marketing, that would help.
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Haven't watched a single AB of these playoffs...
I simply don't give a fukk about any of these teams...
I simply don't give a fukk about any of these teams...
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
That's including black hispanics....?Mariano Rivera is a nikka.
African Americans....it's down to under 10% currently, and had a peak of 27% in 1975.
Latinos, currently comprise a bit over a quarter of the major leagues.
if "spics" and "******s" are tainting their last pure sport....what the hell was happening in the 70's and 80's?
baseball isn't on some truly Xenophobic shyt like soccer and hockey are.
Baseball draws an insane amount of revenue from apparel sales.... how many nikkas do you know, who rock baseball fitteds... but don't know/care anything about the actual sport?
cause baseball isn't a TV sport, SIMPLE.
- easily triples/quadruples NFL attendance
- people can stand NFL cause it's just 1 day a week, MLB is every day
- NFL games are national occasions, MLB games are local occasions
- NFL Sundays are mini-occasions, the season is shorter so every game is more important, and there are 5 games going on at the same time, and FANTASY FOOTBALL/GAMBLING
- NFL, have those 30 seconds to talk to someone/check your phone/take another bite, but you know something is going to happen
- MLB, you have those 30 seconds to talk to someone/check your phone/take another bite, but 90% of the time nothing is going to happen.
Goat poster
KANG LIFE
This has to be only in America right?
There's no way in hell any of theses leagues can touch the Premier League on a global scale.
the fukk are you talking about? watch any soccer game, black people, spanish people, make up mad numbers
hockey tho..
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
It's not the local TV Deals, it's the apparel sales.
the fukk are you talking about? watch any soccer game, black people, spanish people, make up mad numbers
hockey tho..
When was the last time you saw baseball fans make it rain bananas on black players?
Obama Era Survivor
Banned
in popularity maybe, but not with money.
