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re: Anyone else surprised baseball is still popular in the United States?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:15 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:15 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Sorry that your nephews can't hit the long ball.
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Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:16 pm to Baloo
That doesnt mean its more popular in the north than the south. I encountered just as many die hard Braves fans as die hard yankee/red sox fans in the NE.
If you consider the entire north, not just the ne, basbeball is more popular in the south. No one plays it up here. Football and Basketball are wa bigger among kids playing sports.
If you consider the entire north, not just the ne, basbeball is more popular in the south. No one plays it up here. Football and Basketball are wa bigger among kids playing sports.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:16 pm to WDE24
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They do need to shorten the season by about 40 games, but they won't.
Agreed. NBA needs to shorten the season by about 15-20 games as well, but that's not going to happen because of the loss of revenue. The owners are interested in making money, and if that means there are games where half the starting line-up sits, they don't really care.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:16 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Not at all. The greatest sport ever invented.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:17 pm to hendersonshands
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Baseball haters are almost as bad as soccer haters with having to tell everyone how much they dislike the sport.
Yeah I don't get it either. I'm sure there's plenty that don't care about the NBA like me and I know there's a majority that doesn't care for NASCAR, but you don't see them starting threads every February.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:17 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
10 days until you're "golf sucks" thread, eh?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:17 pm to Choupique19
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Youth basketball leagues are dying. Youth baseball teams have turned into a year round obsession.
I don't agree with it one bit, but it's happening, and that tells me that the popularity of baseball isn't about to go away.
Baseball will probably never completely die in the SE, but what you described is the exact opposite of what is happening in the rest of the country. AAU basketball is a monster compared to AAU baseball.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:17 pm to TH03
quote:Even though you've been pretty hard on the Reds today, I'll agree with you on that.
Baseball > every other sport combined
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:18 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
It isn't all that popular.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:18 pm to The Easter Bunny
Because the season drags out too long to hold interest. Because each regular season game would matter much more. Because the world series is being played in November. Because it overlaps too much with football.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:18 pm to WDE24
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They do need to shorten the season by about 40 games, but they won't.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:21 pm to hendersonshands
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Sorry that your nephews can't hit the long ball.
It's not that they can't play. They are both very good athletes (both play travel basketball and soccer) and when they have played baseball they've done well. They just think the sport is boring. Basketball and soccer are much more active sports.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:27 pm to TreyAnastasio
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Baseball will probably never completely die in the SE, but what you described is the exact opposite of what is happening in the rest of the country. AAU basketball is a monster compared to AAU baseball.
Perhaps. My experience is basically located to Louisiana and the surrounding states. My facebook page is littered with little kiddie teams that won some tournament over the weekend almost all weeks of the year. I know of many good, athletic kids that don't play basketball because it interferes with their baseball team in December and January.
If you wanted to turn this into a sociology thread, I guess you're still on point that kids in the North still play basketball. I see Big 10 teams on tv and it's not uncommon to see 2, 3, or more white guys on the floor at one time for those teams. I watch SEC basketball games and there are seldom more than 1 or 2 white guys on the floor for both teams combined. Why is that, because white kids in the South have quit playing basketball to purse their "college baseball dreams", and I guess in some instances they even play soccer (but I don't know many of those kids).
What does this have to do with the original post? I guess that adults that used to play baseball as kids will always still enjoy the game much more than following a sport (NBA) that they never played, even as a youth.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:30 pm to WDE24
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They do need to shorten the season by about 40 games, but they won't.
I would support more true doubleheaders, but shortening the number of games would be a terrible idea. In fact the MLB season doesn't last as long as the NBA season.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:30 pm to Bunta
The NBA and MLB desperately need to adopt the NFL model. If not, the bad teams will continue to draft for the good teams and teams will continue to move around to whatever city builds them new arenas and stadiums. Going global by adding teams outside the US will also be a big mistake.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:30 pm to WDE24
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Because the season drags out too long to hold interest.
No
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Because each regular season game would matter much more.
Not really
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Because the world series is being played in November.
Thank Selig's continued dilution of the playoffs for that one
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Because it overlaps too much with football.
When do you want to play to World Series? August?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:31 pm to TreyAnastasio
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AAU basketball is a monster compared to AAU baseball
Do you have any resources to back this claim up? I would be very surprised if AAU basketball trumps USSSA baseball. I honestly have no idea tho, just my personal experience with baseball growing up.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:32 pm to hiltacular
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just my personal experience with baseball growing up.
In the SE?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:32 pm to hendersonshands
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Baseball haters are almost as bad as soccer haters with having to tell everyone how much they dislike the sport.
Oddly, both groups benefit by the influx of Latinos who have cultural ties to both sports, and that represent a growing part of the population.
Baseball is going to keep chugging along; it's unlikely to regain top-dog status ever again, but it has a robust niche in American culture, language, and sports.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:33 pm to TreyAnastasio
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In the SE?
I have traveled all over playing ball but yes I grew up in the SE playing both aau basketball and usssa baseball.
I'm not calling you out or anything I would just genuinely like to see a source that supports how much more popular youth basketball is.
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