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The World Series Tanks
10:24 AM 11/01/2014
As long as people stop dying, the World Series will do just fine.
The average age of the this year’s World Series viewer was 54. Five years ago the average age was 49. See where this is going?
At this rate, in 25 years, the average age of a World Series viewer will be right around 80.
That’s not good for Major League Baseball.
Back in 1980, the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the Philadelphia Phillies was watched by an average of about 50 million people.
Game 7 Wednesday night between the Royals and the San Francisco Giants drew 23.5 million viewers. The first six games averaged about 12.5 million and, if there had been no Game 7 to pump up the final numbers, it would have been the lowest rated World Series ever.
Apologists for Major League Baseball will tell you that it’s unfair to compare TV ratings when people have 150 channels to choose from to ratings from a time when their were less than 10 choices for most people.
That argument might be valid if not for the NBA’s ratings.
Back in 1980, the Los Angeles Lakers of Jabbar and Magic played the Philadelphia 76ers of Dr. J and Julius Dawkins. The games were televised by CBS. You know how many people saw it on live TV.
None.
It was on taped delay.
The 2014 NBA Finals on NBC averaged 15.5 million viewers, including 22.4 million for Game 5, when the Spurs clinched the series.
There was a time when the World Series was the most anticipated, most watched, most talked about sports event of the year. And that was when it was played in the afternoon.
Now MLB and Fox Network have to avoid scheduling games on Monday and Thursday nights to avoid getting smoked in the ratings by an NFL regular season game.
The Sunday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos had two times the audience of Games 1 and 2 of this year’s World Series.
And, as The New York Times pointed out, “NCIS: New Orleans” and “The Big Bang Theory” had more viewers, So did “The Walking Dead,” a cable show about zombies.
When baseball was king, kids used to get in trouble for listening to the World Series on their transistor radios during school and they would hustle home in hopes of catching an inning or two on TV.
How many kids do you think were watching Game 7 Wednesday night? How many kids even knew it was on?
Kids 6-16 made up less than four percent of the World Series audience this year, and that number is inflated by the huge number of kids in Kansas City who got special permission from their parents to stay up late.
The 54-year old average viewer who tuned into this year’s World Series is old enough to remember when people watched or listened to the games at work, and the local drug stores and barber shops knew it was good business to have a TV turned on for their customers who considered it “can’t miss TV.”
Nobody should be feeling sorry for anybody associated with Major League Baseball. The local TV ratings during the regular season are huge and the ball parks are filled. The owners and players are making more money than they’ve ever made before.
And they’ll continue to make obscene amounts of money in the future. How far into the future is a different story.
Thirty years from now, those 54 year-olds will be 84 and telling their grandkids about the good ol’ days when the World Series really mattered.
Not Again.....thread #785
It's kinda sad how unwatchable baseball is tbh. I want it to do well but I just can't stand watching it.
At this point with improved technology and DVR. The only lasting positives of Baseball are that it hasn't & because of "Unwritten Rules" will never be Ghettofied.
As I age, I am moving farther from Football & Basketball because I can't relate to the "humans" on the field.
Baseball season is over and you're still talking about it.
you just can't make this up
MLB All-Stars no-hit in Japan
TOKYO -- Hayato Sakamoto and Sho Nakata both hit two-run homers and starter Takahiro Norimoto combined with three relievers on a no-hitter as Japan beat the Major League Baseball All-Stars 4-0 Saturday to take a 3-0 lead in their five-game series.
Norimoto, who went 14-10 with a 3.02 ERA this season for the Rakuten Eagles, struck out six over five perfect innings to pick up the win.
"It's too good to be true," Norimoto said. "I wanted to see how my pitches would work against MLB hitters. The fact that my teammate (Motohiro) Shima was catching made me feel at ease and I was able to perform as usual. The atmosphere at the park was really nice. It was the best outing of my career."
Yuki Nishi took over from Norimoto and struck out four with one walk over two innings. Kazuhisa Makita struck out two batters in the eighth and Yuji Nishino retired the side in the ninth.
"The story tonight was in the hit column with a zero on it," MLB manager John Farrell said. "Norimoto was outstanding. He was very efficient. He has a powerful fastball and very good late action to go with his split, his slider and cutter."
Sakamoto connected off MLB starter Jeremy Guthrie in the second inning and Nakata made it 4-0 in the third with a blast off Guthrie over the left field wall.
"I think it was a two-seamer," Nakata said of the pitch he hit over the wall. "I was looking for a good pitch to get a nice swing on and I'm glad I was able to hit one over the fence."
Guthrie took the loss after giving up four runs on five hits over five innings.
Robinson Cano was hit by a pitch on the right foot in the seventh inning and left the game.
"He's gone for an X-ray on his right small toe and we don't have any results back from the images that are being taken as we speak," Farrell said.
The MLB All-Stars won an exhibition game 8-7 before the start of the series but have scored just four runs over the first three games of the series.
Chris Capuano will pitch Game 4 while Shintaro Fujinami will take the mound for Japan.
"We will visit with our coaching staff and try to come up with a lineup that has the ability to go up against Fujinami, who we know is a very good pitcher," Farrell said.
Gooks play their hearts out against the Americans every single time. You think Robinson Cano gives a ?
lol "World" series
The Americans are there for fun like in vacation....No one plays basketball or kickball in Japan
Kickball is for third world country's.....
It is referred to as a sport. It's games are referred to as "games" just like football, basketball, etc.
not a sport
dont forget the turban wearng gots on this site with the dot in the middle of the forehead who oozes over the equivalent sport aka cricket....
King Emmanuel
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241294&p=7684003#post7684003
Only sport where the defense controls the ball.
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