This week in baseball is dying...

[keond]

The Red Sox-Cardinals game 6 had 19.6 million viewers, which was more than the NBA Finals this year.

Compared to the nonexistent nba finals game 6?

 

[42 Monks]

If NHL was in the summer no one would even realize baseball still existed.

real talk

they should just switch seasons and snuff MLB out for good

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

LOL @ the "baseball sucks" "its for old people" etc; opinions but nothign to refute my attendance FACT of 74 million attendees at a HIGHER average per game with a BIGGER sample size..and the nba getting Brewers double header numbers

nobody who goes to baseball games can say its dead. No coincidence that like 75% of people in here with this opinion are CLOSET canadians

 

[Tide Run This]

You I only care about NFL and NBA fukkers are clowns


MLB is a great sport and im glad it actually puts the team first over the player marketing the fukking NBA does. I guess the new NBA rivalry next year is gonna be Cavs vs Knicks right?

This baseball is dying shyt only pops up because a certain Blue Jays fan is mad his team fell the fukk off going into the break.


You guys watch too much First Take and lame ESPN shyt honestly I don't even think most of y'all even like watching games y'all more worried about what these nikkas wearing or what bytch/guy they fukking with.

 

[The Maverick]

Looking at the stats for baseball and hockey makes me realize just how bad the players in the NBA and NFL are getting ripped off in bargaining agreements.

 

[wire28]

this shyt gets made every 4 weeks

 

[yoyoyo1]

aka Reincar's annual "Blue Jays have fallen out of contention" thread

 

[reserved_one]

Every once in awhile I'll put on a cubs/white sox game but I just can't sit through an entire game without falling asleep....Its a struggle.

Baseball is great sport.....Its just moves too slow.

 

[Absolut]

LOL @ the "baseball sucks" "its for old people" etc; opinions but nothign to refute my attendance FACT of 74 million attendees at a HIGHER average per game with a BIGGER sample size..and the nba getting Brewers double header numbers

nobody who goes to baseball games can say its dead. No coincidence that like 75% of people in here with this opinion are CLOSET canadians

time warner paid the dodgers more than twice what they paid the lakers to telecast games to the same tv market. the sport is dying though

 

[Tony D'Amato]

its "dying" meanwhile the phillies are about to get 5 billion from a cable provider. the phillies.

Thats where their jump in revenue is coming from, these regional tv deals. This has got to be a bubble that will burst one day. Nationally, their rating suck

 

[Absolut]

phillies games wont be on nationally. they are being paid 5 billion just to show games in their regional market. thats 2 billion more than the lakers got to show games in their market. its dying

 

[FaTaL]

time warner paid the dodgers more than twice what they paid the lakers to telecast games to the same tv market. the sport is dying though

dodgers play twice as many games

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

time warner paid the dodgers more than twice what they paid the lakers to telecast games to the same tv market. the sport is dying though

Baseball all star game:
2013 FOX 6.9 12 7,511,000 11,000,000
11 million viewers - 6.9 household rating

NBA all star game
2014 - 7.5 million viewers and a 4.3 household rating

but baseball is dying.

 

[Absolut]

and? so the dodgers are deemed just as valuable to cable providers as the nba best franchise, yet baseball is dying. if mlb is dying, whats the nba doing?

 

[Tide Run This]

Thats where their jump in revenue is coming from, these regional tv deals. This has got to be a bubble that will burst one day. Nationally, their rating suck

A random Trail Blazers vs Suns ESPN Wednesday game isn't gonna move the needle as well. Baseball is a regional sport not everyone is gonna sit around and watch a fukking Tuesday night Orioles vs Rays game on ESPN2.