Bush’s fault.
Baseball should stop before Hockey begins.
I pretty much quit watching when the Tigers were eliminated. Royals and their fans are a pretty classy bunch and I wish them much luck. They gave the Tigers a great battle for the division title.
Personally I expected the Orioles to go to the big show.
It hasn’t been hyped much in my area. If you aren’t a baseball fan you wouldn’t even know it was taking place.
I think a big part of the ratings free fall has to do with FOX pushing it’s new cable station, FOX Sports 1, by putting most of the playoff games on cable. I wanted to get into the playoffs this year, but couldn’t because most of the games weren’t on broadcast TV. I might tune in though my girlfriend’s dad is a Giants fan.
I know that this probably matters to the league, but I wish it wouldn’t. Any series without NYY is a good series. The fact that there is no BOS is also a bonus. Rounding it out, I’m also thankful that the NATS are out of it so I don’t have to hear a bunch of MSM morons who know nothing about sports jumping on the bandwagon and gushing every day.
Maybe I’m just showing my age and past viewing of baseball....but there is a dramatic change to the whole game.
In the 1970s...you had a powerhouse team or two that would charge up to the final month of the season and put on a big show with a four-star and three-star pitching duo, a grand bullpen guy, some guy who hit 40 home-runs, two guys hitting near .320, a center-field who’d steal seventy bases, and some aging outfield who’d knock in 120 RBI’s. Year after year, you saw teams like this and both teams (National and American) were built the same way. Sometimes, you even got a team to show up with four pitchers who’d carry fifteen wins each, and a catcher who’d hit forty home-runs.
Today? The Oakland A’s marginal economic plan team is generally being used. You have teams of odd character. The Giants have one guy who knocked 89 RBI’s (team leader for that category). Two guys figure for stolen bases but between them....they got only 29 SB’s. After their 18-game winner, it drops dramatically down to 12 wins for Lincecum.
The Royals? They have one guy who hit 19 HR’s...beyond that it’s all marginal talk. RBI’s? A bunch of guys who hit between forty and seventy RBIs....nothing beyond that. They had a couple of guys who ran a good bit. And they have one five-star reliever.
Exciting or the kind of teams you’d compare against the 1973 Reds or the 1971 Pirates? No, neither the Giants or Royals match up against them. So, both of these teams have earned the right to be there....but frankly....they just don’t have anything much to say over their stat’s or players. Either team carrying a guy who might be worthy of HoF? No.
"Fox attracted a still-sizable audience to Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Tuesday — 12.2 million — but this left it tied with the 2012 Texas-San Francisco opener, which previously had been the smallest audience to kick things off."
Hmmm... It's KC's fault? But the one common denominator for the two lowest rated openers is......
yeah, and no, I haven't tuned in either...
There is a world series playing?
After the NFL went all fruity celebrations and chest pounding displays all the time, football only gained in massive popularity. Looking at the current culture, it’s not surprising it is much more popular today.
Hopefully baseball will just keep flying under the radar and won’t institute radical changes in order to create more offense. Just speed up the pace by actually enforcing the rulebook with the time limit and the high strike.
FReegards
Well, I’m keeping up my streak of never watching the World Series.
Baseball in general is having a difficult time.
I watched some of the Tx Rangers’ home and away games. The stadiums had many sections that were empty.
Of course, the Rangers didn’t cause much of a draw this season, as they finished last place in the AL and last place in baseball.
They shoulda got Wendy Davis to throw out the first pitch, or, diagnosed someone with ebola during the pre-game program.
A reporter said that tickets were $400.00 for the cheap seats up to $5,000.00 for prime seats.
Couldn’t afford a seat? Then we get tortured by having to listen to Joe Buck and his tales about baseball.
It’s late October. Baseball should be over by now.
Baseball bores me to tears; at least you can get in a good nap during a golf round on TV!
The last time I paid attention to baseball was in the 1980’s, back when the Milwaukee Brewers didn’t suck...quite so much! :)
The biggest problem with baseball is that today the average person could not name who the best players are, many are Latin players who have no appeal for marketers.
Kansas City Royals fans saddened but hope still alive for second game on Wednesday night (note: KC shuts down Giants 7-2 last night to 41K cheering fans in Kauffman Stadium - again, no riots, no looting, no stabbings or shootings in KC to "celebrate team win.")
Yes, KC is small TV viewing area, though Fox network works everywhere in US. No need for cable or satellite to view World Series (also, notably absent from Fox were the ads featuring alluring woman inspiring male viewers to grab their Viagra and follow her every 10 minutes as in TBS playoffs, terribly embarrassing to parents and mixed crowd attempting to watch as KC shut out Boston!)