re: The decreased interest in baseball is evident on this board

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Way more people watch MLB than NBA (in the USA).

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Through five games, Fox's World Series is averaging a low 12.1 million viewers, with lopsided wins by Kansas City and San Francisco. In a first, a rival network (CBS) won the week against five games.

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Nearly 18 million viewers tuned in to watch the Spurs clinch in Game 5 on Sunday night. That's a 10 percent increase from Game 5 between the same teams last year. Nielsen says viewership peaked at 22.4 million in the last half hour of the Spurs' 104-87 win. The 10.3 national rating on ABC was up from 9.5 last year. The five-game series averaged 15.5 million viewers and a 9.3 rating. That's up from 15.1 million viewers and a 9.1 rating through five games of the 2013 classic series. Nielsen Social says it was the most-tweeted NBA game of the year, with more than 6.4 million tweets. The Spurs won their fifth NBA championship, preventing the Heat from winning three straight titles.

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