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re: Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:53 am to Master of Sinanju
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:53 am to Master of Sinanju
Yea. Tried the Braves and I just couldn't make myself really care about whether they won or lost.
I also tried adopting the Titans and...same thing, but I still love watching NFL regardless.
I also tried adopting the Titans and...same thing, but I still love watching NFL regardless.
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Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:54 am to filmmaker45
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MLB is impossible to get into if you've never watched it and have no home town team. There are a ton of other things I could do instead of watching 1 game out of 50000
I can agree with that. I live in Baltimore and have a hard time watching any team besides the Orioles and they're awful and boring to watch. The experience of being at a baseball game is way better than it is watching it on TV. The pace of the game seems perfect when you're at the ballpark but when you're watching it on TV, it seems slow as frick.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:55 am to busey
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I love baseball, but I don't have an MLB team, so I just don't watch it for the most part, even though I would like to
Want to get attached to a team? Take a week off from work and go to Spring Training next year... visit a few ball parks and get to know the players of a few teams. Guaranteed you will make some personal connections at Spring Training that will make you want to follow a few players. Eventually, one of the teams will stick and you'll gravitate to it.
Spring Training allows you to have so much closer interaction with the teams and players - you can have a lot of fun making friends and finding a team to follow.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:56 am to bbap
eh I've always kind of chuckled at the people who call it a "thinking man's game" and act as if they're stimulating the mind while the rest of us watch that neanderthal sport football. Not saying that's what you're doing bap, just something I've noticed many baseball fans tend to do.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:57 am to moneybadger
In economic theory, Bloomberg is right. MLB is an inferior good. However, correlation is not causation. Even if MLB were a statistcally significant inferior good, then Bloomberg is simply overlooking a confounding variable (in this case, I would assume the confounding variable is the lack of popularity among younger Americans).
While MLB technically falls under the definition of an inferior good, it is not a white class sport because this conclusion was derived a through a spurious correlation.
While MLB technically falls under the definition of an inferior good, it is not a white class sport because this conclusion was derived a through a spurious correlation.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:58 am to Vicks Kennel Club
I know a ton of hardcore baseball fans with no team, they got in to it because of fantasy
Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:00 am to barry
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Like the last 3 minutes of an NBA game are 3 mintues of action over 20 minutes.
But 3 minutes of an NBA game is still 3 minute of action unlike a football game which 3 minutes is actually like 40 seconds of football and 2:20 of arse scratching and huddling
This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 11:02 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:01 am to BilJ
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eh I've always kind of chuckled at the people who call it a "thinking man's game" and act as if they're stimulating the mind while the rest of us watch that neanderthal sport football.
Well, let's face it. The primary reason why the sport is popular is because Americans like watching a bunch of people beating the shite out of one another. If the sport was two hand touch, the game wouldn't be anywhere as popular as it is now.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:02 am to BilJ
there is something to be said that older people seem to enjoy it more, but they don't really seem to watch basketball and football.
maybe it's the pace of the game, maybe it's because injuries are rarer, maybe it's because football and basketball are all about youth and athleticism
my grandpa is 80 years old and watches a little football, a little basketball, but almost every night he falls asleep and there's a baseball game on... he's a yankees fan
maybe it's the pace of the game, maybe it's because injuries are rarer, maybe it's because football and basketball are all about youth and athleticism
my grandpa is 80 years old and watches a little football, a little basketball, but almost every night he falls asleep and there's a baseball game on... he's a yankees fan
Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:03 am to Moustache
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When your NFL team starts out 0-4, how do you keep watching?
The Eagles demise was like a train wreck everyone watched, it became fun guessing in what fashion that would beat themselves every Sunday.
That would not have been the same had the birds traded Lesean McCoy at the trading deadline for future picks.
If the Phils were to trade Shane Victorino who I assume has a cult following the way Pence must of had in Houston there would be a riot.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:18 am to Prominentwon
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its a thinking mans game so really its the exact opposite of white trash.
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Posted on 4/16/12 at 11:37 am to 805tiger
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I've never understood the NBA hate.
NBA should allow fights like hockey. Would make it better.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 12:14 pm to moneybadger
Racist.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 12:39 pm to filmmaker45
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im happy with just college baseball
speaking of inferior products...
Posted on 4/16/12 at 12:44 pm to chalmetteowl
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there is something to be said that older people seem to enjoy it more, but they don't really seem to watch basketball and football
i think this has nothing to do with the pace of the games and everything to do with that fact that when older people were young (that sounds funny), baseball was americas past time. you never hear old people talking about sitting around the radio listening to basketball or football games.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 3:01 pm to Vicks Kennel Club
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In economic theory, Bloomberg is right. MLB is an inferior good. However, correlation is not causation. Even if MLB were a statistcally significant inferior good, then Bloomberg is simply overlooking a confounding variable (in this case, I would assume the confounding variable is the lack of popularity among younger Americans).
While MLB technically falls under the definition of an inferior good, it is not a white class sport because this conclusion was derived a through a spurious correlation
Read the previous page. This hypothesis was disproven. Just another dipshit writer for Bloomberg who can fail at bringing business/econ concepts into sports.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 3:07 pm to Unbiased Bama Fan
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Actually, football is a white trash sport. It's a far more popular sport than baseball among poor white people in the south. And the main reason why football is the most popular sport in the country is due to its immense popularity among white conservatives who are the majority in this country
The South only has the Saints, Falcons, and Titans. SEC Football is just flat out a much bigger deal. The NFL is immensely popular in northern cities where college football isn't as prevalent.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 3:10 pm to moneybadger
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No. It's a game for braindead conservative white men who are desperate to hold on stale traditions.
There are such exciting mathmatical calculations and statistics that go on in baseball, I don't think you can call fans braindead.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 3:13 pm to Jcorye1
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There are such exciting mathmatical calculations and statistics that go on in baseball, I don't think you can call fans braindead.
Baseball is more of a thinking man's game than football and basketball combined times 5
Baseball > 5*(football + basketball)
Posted on 4/16/12 at 3:16 pm to TH03
Profootballfocus does do some beautiful work though.
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