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re: How can Baseball regain a national following?
Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:06 am to Drewbie
Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:06 am to Drewbie
quote:The fact we're even confusing MLB's Paul George for its LeBron is a problem, wouldn't you say?
He didn't even win the MVP last year and the Nationals didn't even make the playoffs. I'd say he's the baseball version of Paul George.
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Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:07 am to RyanL
Put the Braves back on TBS. As a kid I rarely ever missed a game. However they were at least good then during their 15 straight division championships. Nobody wants to watch them currently 
Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:32 am to RyanL
Stop drug testing
Posted on 5/1/16 at 3:23 am to Drewbie
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He didn't even win the MVP last year
Is that what unanimous means?
This post was edited on 5/1/16 at 3:24 am
Posted on 5/1/16 at 3:33 am to Drewbie
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He didn't even win the MVP last year and
Valid point, other than the fact that he did, besides that part though...
Posted on 5/1/16 at 4:58 am to Drewbie
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If Bryce Harper was the type of phenom in basketball that he is in baseball, he would be the biggest star in America
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He didn't even win the MVP last year and the Nationals didn't even make the playoffs. I'd say he's the baseball version of Paul George.
I love how your sig and avatar are all about baseball and yet you obviously don't even watch. Posted on 5/1/16 at 5:12 am to RyanL
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How can Baseball regain a national following?
Put a team in New Orleans and I'll start following again.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 5:36 am to WeeWee
As ESPN does everything it can to destroy its most profitable enterprise - football - by continuing to harp on concussions, football may die in the next 30 years. All the yuppie mommies that won't allow their little Brandons, Taylors and Jordans to play tackle football will steer them to soccer and baseball. High school football may be all but nonexistent in a generation or so. Baseball may simply have to wait out the NFL's demise.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 5:51 am to RyanL
If they are making enough such that giving Harper a $500M contract why do they need to do anything different?
Posted on 5/1/16 at 6:50 am to Let Me Take A Selfie
quote:Trout was better.
The fact we're even confusing MLB's Paul George for its LeBron is a problem, wouldn't you say?
Posted on 5/1/16 at 6:50 am to lsu480
quote:Get Harper's dick out of your mouth. He doesn't dominate the sport anywhere near as much as Curry or Lebron. There's no confusion to be had. After an era of batters hitting 50-60-70 home runs, we're supposed to herald a guy that can hit 30-40 as the Lebron of his sport? It's all about fan perception. What the best players in baseball are doing now isn't all that impressive in comparison to what baseball used to be. Lebron has single handedly dragged shitty Cleveland teams into the playoffs pre-Miami trade. When Harper has that kind of impact on a team, you can start comparing the two.
I love how your sig and avatar are all about baseball and yet you obviously don't even watch.
This post was edited on 5/1/16 at 6:55 am
Posted on 5/1/16 at 6:53 am to hendersonshands
quote:NBA does a horrible job marketing their clubs especially compared to MLB, is how is put it.
MLB does a horrible job marketing their stars especially compared to the NBA.
I actually like the way MLB does it rather than NBA. Young fans root for individual players in NBA now, hardly for teams. Baseball hasn't become that way, and I think that's a good thing.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 6:54 am to RyanL
It's long and boring. seems like two pretty big problems.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 6:58 am to Bench McElroy
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Cut the total number of games from 162 to 80.
what a joke. baseball's main source of revenues are from ticket sales and local media rights. cutting those two revenue streams in half would get you fired in a hurry and deservedly so.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:07 am to LSU GrandDad
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what a joke. baseball's main source of revenues are from ticket sales and local media rights. cutting those two revenue streams in half would get you fired in a hurry and deservedly so.
I'm not suggesting it. I'm just saying that's the only way the ratings will get better. Basically it's impossible for baseball's national TV ratings to reach its previous heights. There's just too many games and too much competition in the fall for baseball to have great national ratings.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:12 am to Atari
-Contract about 4-6 teams(all sports leagues need this)
-Shorten season to 140 games
-Get there stars more commercials and publicity
-Put the interleague rivalries on 4th of July weekend and promote it like NBA does for Christmas
-Use the internet/youtube better. They used to insta-delete anything off youtube. MLB killed themselves doing this. They have gotten a little more relaxed but its still too late
-Shorten season to 140 games
-Get there stars more commercials and publicity
-Put the interleague rivalries on 4th of July weekend and promote it like NBA does for Christmas
-Use the internet/youtube better. They used to insta-delete anything off youtube. MLB killed themselves doing this. They have gotten a little more relaxed but its still too late
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:12 am to RyanL
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How can Baseball regain a national following?
It can't.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:31 am to kywildcatfanone
As a casual , I only watched baseball during the steroid era.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:42 am to RyanL
I think Baseball is fine. They are doing huge numbers regionally, very huge. The playoffs have good ratings and one thing most people forget, their hats sell like crazy. Heck they have hundreds of millions of dollars in hat sales from people who don't even watch baseball.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 8:11 am to Drewbie
What an odd way of looking at things especially for someone who seems to understand baseball
How you don't see the difference in a single player affecting a game of basketball compared to baseball is strange.
Plus your whole point is about the "steroid era" not to mention the fact that you're basically making the same argument that basketball is shite unless people are putting up MJ numbers...because you know it was super common for so many people to be hitting 50-60-70 homers like you said
How you don't see the difference in a single player affecting a game of basketball compared to baseball is strange.
Plus your whole point is about the "steroid era" not to mention the fact that you're basically making the same argument that basketball is shite unless people are putting up MJ numbers...because you know it was super common for so many people to be hitting 50-60-70 homers like you said
This post was edited on 5/1/16 at 8:13 am
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