Posted on 05/12/2019 4:19:37 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
If two rebuilding teams play a baseball game and no one was there to watch, did the game actually happen?
The Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles put that to the test with a doubleheader Wednesday. If Game 1 was any indication, fans didn’t seem interested to watch two noncompetitive clubs go at it.
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Listen to the roar of the crowd, as the Indians take the field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfcmrwPNn7A&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqp20PGIugf5OQ9F9z0n9pr3&index=6
More people are working in Trump’s economy - probably not time to go to a baseball game on a Wednesday afternoon.
Well, duh. While owners are putting taxpayers on the hook for billion dollar stadiums while paying players hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m surprised ANYone is stupid enough to pay to watch a ball game in person.
Probably an unscheduled make-up game, too. The days of Ernie Banks and “let’s play two” are long gone...
I’m pretty much done with the Rangers, throw away a perfectly good stadium.
I’d rather watch ice melt.
I went to Stockton to see the Giants A franchise play. No one there either. Their 2 big prospects hit home runs. Bitchen.
Once the NFL players started kneeling, I walked away and never looked back. That was really the only professional sports I watched. Decided after that I didn’t need any of them, and haven’t missed anything. My days are full of plenty of enjoyable things.
One of the best baseball movies of all time!
Nobody wants to see TWO suck-ass teams play an afternoon doubleheader for $60 a (cheap) seat.
Beer $12 (x2), hot dog $8. Parking $30.
You gotta play some exciting baseball to bring those prices.
And if you DO play that good baseball, you have to beat ‘em away with a stick.
Tampa Bay draws nothing, and they are a good team.
And there are no more personalities in baseball, it seems every team is interchangeable.
Don’t worry. Eventually, owners will be able to convince taxpayers to foot the bill for multi-billion- dollar player contracts while collecting multi-billions in TV revenues and tax breaks and nobody will will need to actually attend games.
I am done with (American) football, never got into soccer or NBA. MLB is the only professional games I watch.
Too bad that overall attendance is down. As only one player in Oakland Athletics (last year) was a kneeler. But with the Yankees going PC yanking Kate Smith, they need to figure out how to build relationship with fans, not alienating them.
Bitchen. Have not heard that in years, many years.
Kinda like with actors/actresses today.
I love baseball, but it requires an attention span and an appreciation for strategy. I’m not sure how many people have that patience anymore. So much of life is now almost instantaneous. ‘Delayed gratification’ is when it takes more than 3 minutes to microwave something.
The Rangers were a joy this week/s
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