re: LSU Baseball - 2014 Post Season Thread

I wish this basketball/baseball argument would end...

I like baseball and will watch an lsu game here and there. But the cws this year was brutal. You cant have your biggest stage be ad boring as this year was. Hopefully gets fixed this year.

Im interested how college bball final 4 is going to be officiated. If the refs do a 50 foul game itsgonna be a disaster

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Hopefully gets fixed this year.

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It won't be this year, they will implement the new ball that travels further for the 2015 season.

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People like myself who are baseball enthusiasts don't care it the games are 1-0 or 15-11, baseball is baseball and it's never boring. But I would never knock basketball or any other sport because people love what they love. I just happen to have a passion for baseball.

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This is basically how I feel.

It may be a mortal sin, but I like college baseball more than college football most of the time

But I like the NFL more than both. (College baseball is very very very close behind).

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"college baseball is boring"

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with the exception of football I have heard this statement about every sport

you can claim basketball is boring they just throw the ball around and try and score

Soccer is boring you could go to sleep for 2 hours and the score doesn't change, pretty much same thing with hockey but not as bad.

don't get me started on golf

while I most people would call someone crazy I think you could even make the same point about football. In football you spend more time waiting for a play to happen than the actual action of the play. I think on average about 1/6 of the time there is actual action on the field

most people will claim that x is boring because they don't like the sport. For people who love baseball it is very entertaining so if you don't like it don't spoil the fun.

For those who think no one likes baseball:

Harris Pole

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In 2014, 35 percent of fans call the NFL their favorite sport, followed by Major League Baseball (14 percent), college football (11 percent), auto racing (7 percent), the NBA (6 percent), the NHL (5 percent) and college basketball (3 percent).

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I can agree with that last point. People want to see a quality product. Which is at the bottom of this. At LSU, baseball has been and still is a quality product. That is not consistent across the country. And on the same note, across the country college basketball is a good product but hasn't been at LSU for some time.

Finally, I would like to point out that MLB + college is still more popular that NBA + college.

Maybe in Baton Rouge. But he's arguing nationally. And he's right. We can't just ignore that just like he shouldn't ignore how things are at LSU even if it is an outlier.

Also, NBA would be above college baseball, IMO.

TV ratings can be skewed depending on the market in the final and the behavior of fans based on following a favorite team vs. the sport itself.