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re: MLB viewership down 30%...should they juice the ball?
Posted on 6/16/13 at 10:47 am to Iona Fan Man
Posted on 6/16/13 at 10:47 am to Iona Fan Man
Just read an article last week. Japanese hitters are setting all sorts of home run records. Speculation that the ball has been juiced. At first the league denied it but now the commissioner has come clean. Yes, he secretly ordered a revision of the baseballs.
Big movement to have fired.
Big movement to have fired.
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Posted on 6/16/13 at 11:26 am to The Sad Banana
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I'm 31 and love watching baseball.
Me to and I'm 22
Posted on 6/16/13 at 8:44 pm to Wishnitwas1998
I'm 21 and baseball is my favorite sport, although College Football and NFL are not far behind.
Posted on 6/16/13 at 8:46 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
get rid of Bud Selig first, and go from there.
Posted on 6/16/13 at 8:48 pm to hg
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Too many mother fricking games
this x1000
Posted on 6/16/13 at 8:56 pm to The Future
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Why watch a boring sport, when you can watch football or basketball?
:kige:
Posted on 6/16/13 at 8:57 pm to Kige Ramsey
Some Braves fan you must be, kigram33.
Posted on 6/17/13 at 6:20 am to mattz1122
While the national ratings are a concern, they do not drive revenue for baseball nor are they indicator of baseball's popularity. If the 75 million fans in attendance last year and increases in each of the past two seasons did not help you figure it out, consider MLB.com. The site has 425 million unique visitors per year with over 19 billion page views. The demographics of these visitors tell a completely different story than World Series ratings. Of the portal registrants, 73% are the difficult to target males, and 70% are between the desired ages of 19 and 45. Baseball has fans.
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Posted on 6/18/13 at 12:26 am to Iona Fan Man
The games are too long, no juicing and society has moved to an ADD society. I say move the fences in and make the games 7 innings...oh and play with metal bats. 
Posted on 6/18/13 at 12:55 am to Iona Fan Man
just another sign that this country is falling apart. 
Posted on 6/18/13 at 3:06 am to Iona Fan Man
I think they should just call the entire sport off.
Posted on 6/18/13 at 3:35 am to Kige Ramsey
You're such a Braves superfan, Keege.
Posted on 6/20/13 at 8:10 pm to Larry
I don't know how baseball justifies these huge contracts. Every game I see has so many empty seats and the tickets can be had for fairly cheap. Guess they make most of the money selling $100 jerseys.
This post was edited on 6/20/13 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 6/20/13 at 8:11 pm to JabarkusRussell
Apparently you are short sighted, I posted the article above but if you don't like baseball by now you won't ever like it, just like I won't ever like the NBA
Posted on 6/20/13 at 8:41 pm to Georgia Peach
Has anyone said that attendance has increased 9 straight seasons from 2004-2012? And they have been the 9 best seasons for attendance in MLB history.
This year has seen a decrease, but as far as viewership is concerned, there are some things MLB can change.
The only people claiming baseball is dead are the people that never watched.
This year has seen a decrease, but as far as viewership is concerned, there are some things MLB can change.
The only people claiming baseball is dead are the people that never watched.
Posted on 6/20/13 at 8:45 pm to Iona Fan Man
Damn, I should try to stop watching illegal online feeds to help out
Posted on 6/20/13 at 8:46 pm to swamie
Exactly what hurts baseball is right now Yankees, Phillies, Mets, Red Sox are all down in attendance and television ratings the rest of group is doing just fine. But because those markets make up a large portion it shows as a decline
Posted on 6/20/13 at 9:03 pm to swamie
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Has anyone said that attendance has increased 9 straight seasons from 2004-2012? And they have been the 9 best seasons for attendance in MLB history.
And a big chunk of the attendance drop comes from the Marlins attendance decreasing at 11K per game. Another big drop comes from the Red Sox, who stopped fudging the numbers after their sellout streak ended.
And even with the overall drop in attendance 17 teams are averaging more than 30,000 people per game, compared to 14 at this time last year. Most franchises would have been happy to average 20,000 people a game in the 80's.
Posted on 6/20/13 at 9:23 pm to GaBassFisher92
the rangers are doing pretty decent in that category
Posted on 6/20/13 at 9:28 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
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To be fair though viewership in the local markets is better than it has ever been.
Ding Ding Ding, there's your answer. I can pretty much watch 4 baseball games in one night. Fox Sports Midwest(Cardinals), Fox Sports Kansas City(Royals), ESPN, TBS, FOX, MLB Network(Which ever networks are showing the national game.)
So that's why you get viewership down. A lot of games to choose from instead of being forced to watch ONE game on CBS, another on Fox, then your nightly ESPN or NBC game like the NFL does.
ETA: Lets add in the fact that baseball is also played during the Summer months when people are traveling, out at games, camping, etc. Doubt if many people will stay in the house EVERY night during summer to watch baseball games when you can pretty much watch your local market team games 5-6 days/wk.
This post was edited on 6/20/13 at 9:35 pm
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