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Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:59 am to barry
quote:a lot of people fall into that category. I think I've regained my love for the sport, until 94 it was all baseball all the time. I'm booking a trip to Wrigley this summer. I want to get back into it.
I hate when people post on here that they used to like baseball, now they dont
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:59 am to LSUBoo
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You don't think people are more likely to post in here during the game if it's a team they care more about?
During game 6 of the final? I would expect there to be more than a few pages regardless of who was playing. I'd be more inclined to post during a game that my team wasn't playing in.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:00 am to barry
quote:Someone's a little pissy today.
barry
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:01 am to boom roasted
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Masters thread was 233 pages.
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boom roasted
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:01 am to barry
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barry
I offered a one person perspective on the debate. Never did I come close to claiming the debate was over or claim the OP was even correct.
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I hate when
Ya we get it.
For what it's worth, I agree with you about the Northeast and baseball/college football.
Does that end the debate?
This post was edited on 10/29/14 at 9:04 am
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:01 am to barry
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Baseball fans are intelligent
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:02 am to pvilleguru
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During game 6 of the final? I would expect there to be more than a few pages regardless of who was playing. I'd be more inclined to post during a game that my team wasn't playing in.
Congrats on being an outlier?
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:02 am to pvilleguru
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So there aren't fans of the sport, just fans of teams?
I'd post about my team. I watch other teams play. (And occasional act like an a-hole in the DAT when discussing brady akin).
Cain made some great plays, i don't need to pretend to know shite about him and rush here to post "hey did you see that"
This post was edited on 10/29/14 at 9:04 am
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:04 am to DelU249
The late 90s early 2000s trend of building new parks in gentrifying and central city neighborhoods will be great for attendance in the long run as well I think. The gameday experiences of bar hopping around in cities like Denver, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore etc then going to a game is second only to tailgating on a Saturday for college football for me.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:04 am to Tigertown in ATL
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I offered a one person perspective on the debate. Never did I come close to claiming the debate was over or claim the OP was even correct.
Yea and your own personal experience adds nothing to the discussion. Who uses the word twit?
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:08 am to barry
quote:Thread topic:
your own personal experience adds nothing to the discussion
quote:Seems pretty relevant.
The decreased interest in baseball is evident on this board
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:11 am to Tigertown in ATL
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I couldn't name 5 guys on the Giants and Royals combined.
It's been said ad nauseum, but the MLB does an absolutely horrendous job of marketing itself, its teams and its stars. To boot, even when they try to go all in on marketing a star, they go overboard (as they did with Jeter) and it becomes a turnoff.
And it's crazy because the shelf life of an MLB star is three times what it is for a non-QB NFL player, yet guys like Arian Foster have Toyota commercials. They'd be well served by not having a 128 year old commissioner who can't identify with the 18-35 demographic at all.
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I lost interest completely at some point. I'm not even quite sure why, but I know I am not alone in this.
Ditto. I used to be an enormous baseball fan as a kid, and I taped the All Star Game and World Series every year, and I was right there for every McGwire and Sosa homer in 1998. Somewhere along the way I just completely lost interest, and it had nothing to do with the strike or PEDs.
I'm not saying baseball is dead or dying by any stretch of the imagination, but baseball has rapidly lost the casual fan, and there's no way to rationalize or spin it. Casual fans are what drive ratings and general sport popularity -- losing them is never a good thing.
This post was edited on 10/29/14 at 9:13 am
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:14 am to SlowFlowPro
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Masters thread was 233 pages.
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boom roasted
touche, i forgot how every here jerks off the masters.
My overall point being this boards interest in WS game 6 is a poor gauge of the overall health of baseball.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:15 am to Feral
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but baseball has rapidly lost the casual fan
bingo, the NFL is crazy big because now my little sister watches, my mom watches, my step father...it used to be just me and my brother...now it's a family event when the saints play
this is what baseball is missing. They don't need to tweek rules, expand playoffs, etc...they just need to market their fricking players because nobody save for the core fanbase knows who the frick they are
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:15 am to Feral
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I used to be an enormous baseball fan as a kid, and I taped the All Star Game
Same here. Id stay up late at night watching games. Spend my days playing Ken Griffey Jr Baseball on SNES and editing all the rosters.
I was at a bar a few days ago, and the game was on, and seemingly no one cared. I know I didnt. And yes, I couldnt even name more than 3 guys on each roster.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:15 am to barry
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Who uses the word twit?
Got me on that one.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:16 am to barry
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My overall point being this boards interest in WS game 6 is a poor gauge of the overall health of baseball.
and i agreed with that
the TV ratings, on the other hand...
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:17 am to Tigertown in ATL
NFL became a national sport in large part because it hold two big advantages over baseball
1) You can easily play fantasy sports with it
2) You can easily gamble on it.
1) You can easily play fantasy sports with it
2) You can easily gamble on it.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:18 am to barry
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touche, i forgot how every here jerks off the masters.
The ryder cup thread was 100 pages
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