Olbermann Breaks Down MLB's Awful TV Ratings

[NYC Rebel]

who won the most world series

You really caring about the 20s through 60s bruh?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Football and basketball are my favorite sports but baseball is trash

It's boring AF. And it seems like every year, some "childhood hero" or popular player is getting busted for roids.

Its a trash league and even worse sport. You wont catch me watching no world series.

You dudes got an anger towards baseball like it did something personally to you

 

[MikelArteta]

again baseball kills from a local revenue because that is 162 games of LIVE tv that sells to advertisers, no one dvrs sports, its basically the last thing out there that people will watch live and will sit thorugh.

however the demographic of baseball fans are old white folks, and midwestern folks

 

[Oville]

Ya haters should read this
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...-the-2013-world-series-tv-ratings-a-home-run/

 

[tremonthustler1]

You dudes got an anger towards baseball like it did something personally to you

any excuse they'll use will be some stupidity that'll expose some other bullshyt they say.

 

[Ain't That Something]

Baseball is trash. The sooner that shyt dies off the better.

 

[the next guy]

You dudes got an anger towards baseball like it did something personally to you

any excuse they'll use will be some stupidity that'll expose some other bullshyt they say.

They pops that left them was playing baseball

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

no one watches baseball because eeryones named hernandez or paco or miguel

Lowkey 'cism, I see you breh

 

[The War Report]

again baseball kills from a local revenue because that is 162 games of LIVE tv that sells to advertisers, no one dvrs sports, its basically the last thing out there that people will watch live and will sit thorugh.

however the demographic of baseball fans are old white folks, and midwestern folks

Still mad that your Blue Jays attempted to build a championship team and still failed miserably.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

the average NFL game is around 3h 10m long..and a baseball game is just under 3 hours long at 2:58

Take this Clayton Kershaw clip in real time to understand how fukking stupid a 24 second pitch clock is..... a pitch clock, would effectively make the game much longer and less exciting.



he strikes him out, in less than 1m40s real time....and threw 6 pitches.

Not everyone goes at the same pace as Clayton or Verlander.

The NFL as it stands is saturated with commercials and other promotional crap. It takes waaaaay too long as well. Even then, the NFL is far and away more exciting than baseball. If you're okay with the pace, then that's cool. But if the question is How to make baseball more excitig?. Then speed up the game to make it more exciting.
3 hours to watch a fukking game? GTFO.

 

[Captain Crunch]

I hated baseball all my life. Let me tell you why.

The game is two slow. They need a shot clock for pitches. There is no reason for a 5 min rest after every pitch

There is no cap. Can't even take them seriously. If all teams could compete maybe more people would watch

Over the last 10 years; the Yankees and Red Sox have won the WS a combined 3 times, while the Giants won twice(top 9 payroll), Cardinals twice(top 11 payroll), Marlins(bottom payroll), White Sox(ranked 13 in payroll). In the last ten years; 4 times a ranked 24 or lower payroll team appeared in the World Series(Rangers in 2010; Rays in 2008, Rockies in 2007, and the Marlins in 2003).

Still mad that your Blue Jays attempted to build a championship team and still failed miserably.

Reincar in December 2012: Baseball is thriving

Reincar now: Baseball is dying brehs

 

[Hammer]

everyone stopped watching about 6-8 years ago

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Not everyone goes at the same pace as Clayton or Verlander.

The NFL as it stands is saturated with commercials and other promotional crap. It takes waaaaay too long as well. Even then, the NFL is far and away more exciting than baseball. If you're okay with the pace, then that's cool. But if the question is How to make baseball more excitig?. Then speed up the game. It's too long.
3 hours to watch a fukking game? GTFO.

what you're not understanding is that with your stupid ass idea...is that pitchers could extend the game for far longer with a pitch clock....24 seconds in between pitches is a very slow pace.ridiculously slow.

here is a few things you don't take into account.....cause you didn't realize how stupid your idea was.

1. foul balls
2. base stealing
3. checking baserunners
4. players actually putting the ball in play, and getting on base
5. time outs/substitutions

it's not fukking basketball, instituting a pitch clock won't make the game faster or more exciting..

you want baseball to be more exciting to casual fans, move the plate farther back...make the ball larger, draw the outfields in, and give batters thicker bats.

then you'll have an "exciting" game.

 

[The War Report]

what you're not understanding is that with your stupid ass idea...is that pitchers could extend the game for far longer with a pitch clock....24 seconds in between pitches is a very slow pace.ridiculously slow.

here is a few things you don't take into account.....cause you didn't realize how stupid your idea was.
1. foul balls
2. base stealing
3. checking baserunners
4. players actually putting the ball in play, and getting on base
5. time outs/substitutions

it's not fukking basketball, instituting a pitch clock won't make the game faster or more exciting..

you want baseball to be more exciting to casual fans, move the plate farther back...make the ball larger, draw the outfields in, and give batters thicker bats.

then you'll have an "exciting" game.

That sounds more like a circus of a game than professional baseball. Ball parks use to play much larger back in the day than today and balls didn't jump off the bats. Baseball's problem is that there's not enough balls in play.

 

[Ranger21]

This country no longer cares about baseball. America is all about football and the $$$ shows it.

Also baseball is killed by the fact that star hitters for example only get 4-5 at bats per game to show off their skills. Viewers like to watch superstars frequently