Olbermann Breaks Down MLB's Awful TV Ratings

[mastermind]

Also worth noting, the NFL is worldwide, the NBA is worldwide, MLB is solely an American sport as far as viewership.

The NFL is worldwide? Are you ing?

 

[Easy-E]

How does he work for ESPN and Turner

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

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.

You really think the Premier League rakes in that much here? we don't give a fukk about soccer like that here.

 

[the next guy]

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So the Mets and Blue Jays are screwed then.

 

[Premeditated]

i'd literally rather go to the toilet and force myself to shyt than watch the World Series. Atleast I get more action out of that than watching a bunch of beer belly cacs stop every 5 seconds after a play.

 

[the next guy]

this is a good point. Baseball has lost casual fans and havent adopted to the party atmosphere of other sports.

Brehs dont really tweet about baseball. Rarely see them trending, which is weird.

And the have lost people to other hobbies entirely as well imo. People go overboard on the coli but to say they don't have a problem is a fallacy. Selig is a bum.

 

[the next guy]

Some cable tv shows are blowing sports out of the water right now. The TV contracts (local) are a bubble and will burst.

I mean I'm sure the Walking Dead blew Game 1 out of the water, on the broadcast side same for NCIS and NCIS:LA this week, the sport used to outdraw everything, not the case unless you are the NFL really

 

[pete clemenza]

Bruh ITS THE WORLD SERIES. No reason that shyt shouldn't be getting HUGE ratings. Baseball fukked up by turning its back on the shyt that brought it back. Listening to these old ass 60+ White guys, talking about the game being fair and drug free. When EVERYONE digs the long ball. And pictures striking nikkas with 63 fanning cats, that if they even touch the ball that shyt going yard.

Real talk.. purist can talk shyt about steroids but when McGuire and Sosa and dem was poppin' those balls outside of parks Baseball was eatin' heavy during that era!! Even San Diego was poppin' fireworks for Sosa when he hit one out in their very own ballpark

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Real talk.. purist can talk shyt about steroids but when McGuire and Sosa and dem was poppin' those balls outside of parks Baseball was eatin' heavy during that era!! Even San Diego was poppin' fireworks for Sosa when he hit one out in their very own ballpark

Folks wanna either see someone hitting 500 ft homers. or someone striking out some juiced up a$$hole who could possibly hit a 500 ft homer. Bud Selig is an idiot.

 

[the next guy]

Fun Fact. In 1997 baseball revenue was way lower then the NBA! Seriously. I have to find the number but the MLB was in the doghouse until the Sosa-McGuire era.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Revenue by sport

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/01/news/companies/nfl-money-super-bowl/

NBA is dying, NASCAR ahead of it.

 

[Goat poster]

The NFL is worldwide? Are you ing?

These dudes don't realize that ONLY Americans and Canadians give a fukk about (american) football.

 

[the next guy]

Fun Fact. In 1997 baseball revenue was way lower then the NBA! Seriously. I have to find the number but the MLB was in the doghouse until the Sosa-McGuire era.

Found it

http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showpost.php?p=66836085&postcount=109

NBA revenue in 1996: $2.3 bn.
MLB revenue in 1996: $1.78 bn.

NBA revenue in 2012-13: $~5 bn.
MLB revenue in 2013: $~8bn.

David Stern, Mr. Awesome Commissioner, undisputed leader of the most likely candidate by almost universal agreement to displace the national pastime, got his rear end handed to him on a dirty, bent tray by ....Bud Selig.

@jfkennedy @tremonthustler1 @The War Report As you can see, baseball has made up a ton of ground from when it was dead two years post lockout.

 

[the next guy]

These dudes don't realize that ONLY Americans and Canadians give a fukk about (american) football.

Goodell sees the writing on the wall breh. What do you think all these London games are for. NFL wants that Global Premier League audience.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Folks wanna either see someone hitting 500 ft homers. or someone striking out some juiced up @sshole who could possibly hit a 500 ft homer. Bud Selig is an idiot.

Selig isn't an idiot, the game is being catered/marketed towards people who like baseball.

the casual fans, may want to see nothing but home-runs..... but the casual fan doesn't even watch the fukking Home Run Derby...where that's all they do.