Hornets: lol baseball

[spurraider21]

king emmanuel always comes up big in these discussions

[Jodelo]

King Emmanuel going ham!

[Blizzardwizard]

162 games a year
648 hours you'll never get back
when you have cancer and only 3 months left to live, you wish you would've used those 648 hours to do something more productive than watching baseball
pitchers so scared of throwing a strike to a hitter that hits it 30% of the time at most
bases loaded, so intense, crowd gets up and the batter strikes out anyway
MVP for each conference
pinch hitters
put in the game to lay down a bunt.. because the guy you subbed in for can't bunt
completes the bunt, then goes back to the dugout and claps every teammate he made contact with the baseball.. good job
pinch runners
so fat you actually need someone else to run the bases
I'm so excited for extra innings of baseball.. no one says
6 hour 17 inning game with nothing happening.. so boring ESPN.com won't even update the game any more
so boring Pete Rose actually bet money on games just to make it more exciting for him
anyone that pays to watch this mess
anyone that goes to watch this mess
I'm ordering MLB.TV because zzzquil doesnt work for me anymore
player finally hits a baseball, points their finger to the sky, thanking god that something actually happened
sport that only fat white christians like to watch

[DeadlyDynasty]

I remember watching an AIDS do entary in school years ago...during one segment the health department in Britain was targeting soccer players and trying to "put an end to kissing and cuddling on the pitch."

True story.

[Splits]

5th inning in Game 5 of a 2-2 "World" Series and you can barely find it on ESPN home page

[Splits]

^Nascar with more headlines than American cricket

[lefty]

^

[Reck]

This world series matchup has been the worst since probably 2007 Red Sox Vs Rockies.

I dont think anyone is watching these two teams play at all.

[King Emmanuel]

world series match-ups
doesnt change the fact that the game is boring as
thinking yankees vs phillies would be any better than this years crap, when its the same old ty american cricket game with 1000 commercials

[lefty]

world series match-ups
doesnt change the fact that the game is boring as
thinking yankees vs phillies would be any better than this years crap, when its the same old ty american cricket game with 1000 commercials

[elmanutres]

player finally hits a baseball, points their finger to the sky, thanking god that something actually happened

baseball
"sport"
standing around for 10 hours
10 hour games
fat be@ners with oily skin and mustache
steroids
barely move and need steroids
players hit the ball a couple of times during a game, but need steroids for that
fat
spitting
manager dressed like his players; imagine Terry Stotts wearing basketball uni, a headband, and carrying a loaded 45 , or Bellichick wearing a helmet
play by play announcer and fans who when someone finally hits a ball, because nothing happened during the previous 9 hours
Joe Buck
fake intense voice
pretends he gives a , just wants his paycheck
fans sleeping during the game, because no is happening
fans walking around, going to a restaurant and coming back to the game, because nothing is happening and they have all day
fat s
catching a ball with their glove is the most exciting part of the game for fat fans
"let's go to the ball game " song
still living in the 50's
"God Bless America" song in the middle of a WS game, because the national anthem wasn't enough
'Muricaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa propaganda
AIDS buying a baseball team
so called athletes who get "injured" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb...in-baseball/1/
Reliever
worst role ever; even worse than punter

[Clipper Nation]

^Nascar with more headlines than American cricket

More headlines than povertyball, too.

[Splits]

More headlines than povertyball, too.

Sporting KC vs. NY Red Bulls the same number of mentions as 5th inning of Game 5 "World" Series

[Clipper Nation]

Sporting KC vs. NY Red Bulls the same number of mentions as 5th inning of Game 5 "World" Series

Hey look:



Baseball front and center, povertyball NOWHERE to be found

NASCAR: three mentions
Povertyball: ZERO

[Splits]

The 2014 World Series resumes at San Francisco’s spectacular AT&T Park Sunday night and there won’t be many elementary school kids watching a game that starts past 8 p.m. on the East Coast and ends around midnight. The 2014 San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals are putting on a pretty good show, but they lack star power and they are participants in an event that is slowly dying. It really wouldn’t matter if every Series at-bat featured Clayton Kershaw vs. Mike Trout.

Today, the World Series is like “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the Miss America pageant, Timex watches, and sitting in your favorite chair surrounded by a stack of daily newspapers. It’s like “Peanuts.’’ It was once the biggest event in sports. Now it’s a relic of a simpler time before the Worldwide Leader and the World Wide Web. My fantasy baseball world of 1962 has been overthrown by the fantasy baseball (“where you can win millions!”) of 2014.


In 2014, the World Series is your father’s Oldsmobile.


I blame no one. It’s evolution. Baseball is too long and slow for modern attention spans. The games drag, especially with late-inning pitching changes. The glut of games on television and the introduction of interleague play has blurred the iden y of the respective leagues and taken away the mystery of star players in faraway lands.


Unfortunately, the average age (according to Nielsen in 2013) of a World Series viewer is 54.4 years old. Five years ago, it was 49.9. Children ages 6-17 account for only 4.3 percent of the World Series TV audience. This is not what you would call a “future.’’


MLB rightfully worries about scheduling any postseason games opposite almighty football (imagine your showcase event getting hammered by “Thursday Night Football”?), but the TV ratings for this Series are bad. Game 1 was the lowest-rated World Series opener of all time, attracting 12.2 million viewers. In 1980, 54 million people watched the Royals and Phillies in a World Series game. A New York Times Page 1 story Friday noted that the United States-Portugal World Cup match this past summer earned a rating twice as large as the first game of this World Series.


Ouch.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...zSN/story.html

[Clipper Nation]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...zSN/story.html

[Splits]

A New York Times Page 1 story Friday noted that the United States-Portugal World Cup match this past summer earned a rating twice as large as the first game of this World Series.


Ouch.

[spurraider21]

this is like raider fans and jaguar fans arguing about their teams being superior

[Clipper Nation]

Major League Soccer's ratings are lower than the WNBA's

http://thebiglead.com/2013/11/12/mls...-improve-them/

Keep telling us we care about povertyball, though, third-world fans

[Clipper Nation]

Seriously.... in the food chain of American sports, povertyball is behind butch lesbians playing middle-school-quality basketball

[Infinite_limit]

Not sure if posted

[Infinite_limit]

Major League Soccer's ratings are lower than the WNBA's

http://thebiglead.com/2013/11/12/mls...-improve-them/

Keep telling us we care about povertyball, though, third-world fans

I don't watch MLS. Just like I don't watch Division 2 CFB or Basketball.

Barclays Premier League on NBC has been a big hit. Even though the hours are not viewer friendly and it gets no air mention on ESPN/Fox Sports.

[DeadlyDynasty]

The pro-soccer crowd here consists of the lowest common denominator posters ST has to offer:

"world" series and 0.000000001% of the world actually cares, unlike the world cup
world series of american major league baseball

Baseball
"Sport"

Baseball is not a sport

Soccer has real athletes, baseball has fat s or guys on juice.

Heck I would love to see you trying to walk while dribbling a ball with your feet.

5th inning in Game 5 of a 2-2 "World" Series and you can barely find it on ESPN home page

Not sure if posted

A murderer's row of be@ners, greynames, and sycophants

[Infinite_limit]

Gotta admit, World Series game upstaged by a random football game? Embarrassing.

[King Emmanuel]

Gotta admit, World Series game upstaged by a random football game? Embarrassing.

even football is too fast paced for the 55 year olds that watch the world series