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re: Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:25 am to JJ27
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:25 am to JJ27
I still contend that at some point in my lifetime That free flowing sports(Basketball, Hockey, Soccer) will over take Baseball and Football which are essentially like 12 minutes of action expanded over 3 hours. They are just inferior games to watch.
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Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:25 am to Moustache
The NBA's problem is that nobody, other than urbans, really relate to it. And, the arenas are tiny, so they don't make as much per game (per percentage of capacity) than baseball or football franchises.
The NBA is not my personal favorite, but I do see how it's appealing. Just not my cup of tea. I wouldn't be surprised if hockey will or already has passed the NBA in popularity.
The NBA is not my personal favorite, but I do see how it's appealing. Just not my cup of tea. I wouldn't be surprised if hockey will or already has passed the NBA in popularity.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:25 am to moneybadger
Bloomberg is a wise man
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:25 am to moneybadger
but wait i thought Arena Football was for white trash? 
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:26 am to moneybadger
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Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport
Whatever else you say about baseball may or may not be true, but this is wrong. In fact it is totally bass-ackerds.
If anything baseball in the US is a middle-class and up sport.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:26 am to moneybadger
quote:MLB, the spam/public transportation of the sporting world
Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:27 am to moneybadger
Similar to the blind eye to academics and oversigning in the SEC, free agency allows the rich to get richer making the small market teams inferior.
In before St Louis is not a big market, in terms of tv dollars it is
In before St Louis is not a big market, in terms of tv dollars it is
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:28 am to moneybadger
Baseball is a wonderful game.
By far my favorite sport
By far my favorite sport
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:28 am to Moustache
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the NBA will probably be no more in the future
ok i lost you here
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:28 am to moneybadger
That clip had some ridiculous leaps of logic. First of all, the graph begins with MLB's decline of popularity due to the strike. Then they ignore the middle of the graph and show a one year window where MLB's popularity happened to increase and average incomes decreased to show that baseball is an inferior good. Ridiculous. If you increase the sample size beyond 1 freaking year and go back to 2001, MLB's popularity and median household income have both decreased, which could suggest that median household income is directly proportional to the popularity of baseball.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:30 am to The Sad Banana
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The NBA's problem is that nobody, other than urbans, really relate to it.
Can't really agree with you on this one.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:30 am to audodger
The graph is also solely based on World Series viewership, which is directly proportional to if the Yankees or Red Sox are in it.
This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 10:31 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:31 am to VerlanderBEAST
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(Basketball, Hockey, Soccer) w
Hockey won't overtake shite because it's really segregated to fans caring more in the north than the south and the west. And the north is growing at the slowest rate in the country too by the way.
Basketball just isn't popular with a lot of the whites. And, the whites will still be a majority in this country. Plus, (i know this sounds racist, but it's factually true) the conservative whites are the ones who spend the most money. I just don't see basketball ever coming close to a number 2.
soccer is the wildcard here. It's already kind of a rich white kid sport because white trash or poorer white kids just don't gravitate towards soccer. Add the growing Hispanic population in the country and the already worldwide popularity, I could see soccer making a surge. ----but it will take 20-25 years before it's even close to MLB and NFL.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:31 am to The Sad Banana
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The graph is also solely based on World Series viewership, which is directly proportional to if the Yankees or Red Sox are in it.
Ha. I don't know how I didn't even notice that.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:32 am to audodger
When your team trades a Hunter Pence mid-season how do you keep watchin' ?
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:34 am to Moustache
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WHite trash cheers on the blacks who play football. Baseball fans tend to be these groups:
1. Rich or conservative whites (majority in the country)
2. Hispanics-----the fastest growing group in the USA
3. Suburbanites who want something to do and go to a ball game.
I don't think conservative whites care that much about baseball. Fan support for baseball is much stronger in liberal northern cities like Boston, New York, and Chicago than it is in southern markets like Atlanta, Dallas, Tampa Bay, and Miami. Also Hispanics like playing baseball but they prefer watching soccer.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:34 am to moneybadger
Baseball blows arse hole. Fact.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:36 am to KillianRussell
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When your team trades a Hunter Pence mid-season how do you keep watchin' ?
When your NFL team starts out 0-4, how do you keep watching?
When your college football team (if you're LSU or Bama) loses 2 games and is essentially out of the SEC championship picture or title game, how do you keep watching?
The same as every sport.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:36 am to KillianRussell
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When your team trades a Hunter Pence mid-season how do you keep watchin' ?
How do you watch Hunter Pence and think good baseball? Each time he steps on to the field, it is like his first time.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:36 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:There are things about the NBA that make it less of a team game and more of a "LOOK AT ME!" type of product. It's got some cultural tennants that some traditional baseball fan types, the middle class conservatives, might not find relatable. It's not wrong or right, it's just kind of how it is.
Can't really agree with you on this one.
I don't know what it is, but I am content watching one baseball game per day of the season for the entirety of summer and fall, but I will only slightly care about the NBA come playoff time. And add to that almost every NBA team gets in the playoffs, is there a reason to watch any games on TV? I thought having a franchise here in my geographic area would change my views on the NBA, make me more interested, but I really just don't get into it at all.
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