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re: ESPN’s treatment of College Baseball
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:48 am to turnpiketiger
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:48 am to turnpiketiger
College game day with some schools that get 500 people in the stands? Get real, man.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:49 am to turnpiketiger
I thought someone just posted that they have betting lines and all kinds of stuff now
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:51 am to PenguinPubes
College baseball has been in decline for years, just like MLB. Just about every team is playing the analytics small ball crap. It was much better with loaded bats and steroids. Sorry, buts it's true.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:01 pm to LSU1SLU
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Only small minded people cant understand why college baseball isnt on espn like college basketball.
Yes, it's a "why aren't my interest as important to the rest of the world? I care about it everyone else must too"
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:03 pm to H-Town Tiger
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The bubble is you claiming they show more softball. Obviously they do show softball but I need to see some data showing they show it more. Otherwise More likely you just notice it because it’s not what you want to see.
Unless it’s one high draw series during conference play or the post season ESPN or the SECN will not air baseball. It can only be streamed. You can catch a college softball game on the regularly scheduled programming almost daily. And I don’t just mean during the early part of the season. It happens all year long.
Now frankly, I don’t really care because I can still find the games I want to watch, but it’s still weird to me that they seem to prioritize softball over baseball. And no, I don’t have numbers and I’m not gonna research but I’m pretty confident in my assumption.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:07 pm to ChestRockwell
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College baseball has been in decline for years,
This is false
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:10 pm to turnpiketiger
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I’m so sick of espn treating college baseball like a red headed step child. Compare it to men’s basketball.
What world do some of yall live in?
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:11 pm to HeadCall
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Unless it’s one high draw series during conference play or the post season ESPN or the SECN will not air baseball.
Again I need to see some proof, my recollection is there is a baseball game on every weekend after basketball season ends which usually coincides with the start of conference games in the SEC
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You can catch a college softball game on the regularly scheduled programming almost daily. And I don’t just mean during the early part of the season. It happens all year long.
Softball season started a couple weeks ago, LSU is 10-0, can you point me where any softball games have been on daily? I don’t scan all ESPN networks all weekend but all I stumbled across was M and W Basketball. If as much softball should be easy to prove. A quick google search shows me nothing but ESPN+ / SECN+ nationally has softball this week LINK
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:13 pm to ChestRockwell
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Just about every team is playing the analytics small ball crap
Tell us you nothing about analytics without telling us us
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:16 pm to chadr07
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You look at most of the MLB stadiums during games and the stands are practically empty
Why dont people look stuff up before looking like total morons?
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:18 pm to LSUGrad9295
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Throw out the SEC and ACC and a couple of outliers, and college baseball is a "nothing" sport to much of the rest of the nation.
This is the real answer.
Nobody GAF about college baseball outside of a couple teams.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:19 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Again I need to see some proof, my recollection is there is a baseball game on every weekend after basketball season ends which usually coincides with the start of conference games in the SEC
I don’t have any proof. I’m just here to scream at the sky about having to hear a bunch of girls sing their stupid chants when I’d rather watch baseball.
I do agree about basketball vs baseball though. Basketball is immensely more popular than college baseball.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:25 pm to H-Town Tiger
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The bubble is you claiming they show more softball. Obviously they do show softball but I need to see some data showing they show it more. Otherwise More likely you just notice it because it’s not what you want to see.
If you are a softball fan, college softball is the highest level of the sport, if you’re a baseball fan, mlb is the highest and most watched level. Makes sense why espn would air more softball than college baseball and probably gets higher ratings.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:27 pm to H-Town Tiger
You can thank Bill James for changing the game. Baseball in general has gotten boring. Gimme a slug fest over some 2-1 game any day of the week. That's what was fun with Gorillla ball. But hey, to each of its own.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:36 pm to ChestRockwell
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You can thank Bill James for changing the game. Baseball in general has gotten boring. Gimme a slug fest over some 2-1 game any day of the week. That's what was fun with Gorillla ball. But hey, to each of its own.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about and just using “analytics” or Bill James as a synonym for bad
the “Moneyball” / analytics strategy is getting on base and hitting home runs. No base stealing or bunting so the exact opposite of “small ball”.
Gorilla ball in college was because of the -5 aluminum aka “nuclear” bats. They haven’t used those for a while. The composite bats introduced in the 2010s really affected power numbers (and imo cost LSU a Cws title in 2013) MLB is setting records for total HRs in a season regularly.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:49 pm to turnpiketiger
The only way e s p n gets more involved if there is more minorities.
Fact
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:54 pm to ChestRockwell
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You can thank Bill James for changing the game. Baseball in general has gotten boring. Gimme a slug fest over some 2-1 game any day of the week. That's what was fun with Gorillla ball. But hey, to each of its own.
you do realize players are hitting more HRs than ever across college and MLB baseball right now, right?
In 4800 MLB games in 2024, there were 452 sac bunts.
In 1990, there were 1559 sac bunts league wide in 4210 games.
No one bunts anymore. Why even comment if you do not watch the games
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:18 pm to PenguinPubes
The only involvement I want is to push 206 or 207 or 208 in my direct tv and see LSU Tigers playing more often during baseball season
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:23 pm to Lester Earl
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Why even comment if you do not watch the games
But then he wouldn’t be able to criticize something he’s heard is “bad” but doesn’t know anything about
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:30 pm to HeadCall
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I don’t have any proof. I’m just here to scream at the sky about having to hear a bunch of girls sing their stupid chants when I’d rather watch baseball
Try changing the channel
I promise you there will college baseball games on during the weekend. Maybe not LSU but someone is on. quote:
I do agree about basketball vs baseball though. Basketball is immensely more popular than college baseball.
It’s not just that, basketball is at the prime part of regular season. Baseball just started and most are playing scrubs. The LSU v Grambling or Bama v Mercer football games dont even get prime network spots
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