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re: What can MLB do to gain popularity/ratings?
Posted on 10/30/12 at 5:12 pm to RollDatRoll
Posted on 10/30/12 at 5:12 pm to RollDatRoll
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This years World Series ratings were piss poor. They continue to fall behind NFL, NBA, BCS bowl games, March Madness, etc in ratings. What can MLB do to fix it's product to get people watching again?
Shorten the regular season from 1,793,845,094 games to something more reasonable. In all seriousness, shorten the regular season by AT LEAST 40 games and play the playoffs in late August thru mid September at the absolute latest.
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Posted on 10/30/12 at 5:29 pm to RollDatRoll
Hasn't baseball's attendance been up the last few years?
Posted on 10/30/12 at 5:37 pm to smuckers
Baseball revenues keep climbing, attendance is up over all I believe..... The post season happens during CFB/NFL which is clear cut #1.
The shortening of the season would be great
Salary cap as people have mentioned is pointless..... Look at the teams this year Oakland, Giants, Baltimore, Atlanta they are not top 5 payrolls. So a salary cap isn't a huge issue really as parity continues in MLB.
I think MLB could do more to promote its players and what not. Making a few seats a bit cheaper could draw more casual fans and what they are doing promoting inner city.
The shortening of the season would be great
Salary cap as people have mentioned is pointless..... Look at the teams this year Oakland, Giants, Baltimore, Atlanta they are not top 5 payrolls. So a salary cap isn't a huge issue really as parity continues in MLB.
I think MLB could do more to promote its players and what not. Making a few seats a bit cheaper could draw more casual fans and what they are doing promoting inner city.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:54 pm to tduecen
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Salary cap as people have mentioned is pointless..... Look at the teams this year Oakland, Giants, Baltimore, Atlanta they are not top 5 payrolls. So a salary cap isn't a huge issue really as parity continues in MLB.
MLB has had more different champions since 1980 than the NFL or NBA. MLB doesn't need a salary cap.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:55 pm to RollDatRoll
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This years World Series ratings were piss poor.
Its over already?...I was going to TRY to sit through one game and see the celebration
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:56 pm to Papa Tigah
You can't capture the greatness of baseball or hockey on television like you can as if your in person.
Just can't.
Just can't.
This post was edited on 10/30/12 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:57 pm to shuke33
You couldn't pay me to sit through an NFL game in person but sure as hell would attend a game at Wrigley Field.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:01 pm to tduecen
If somebody doesn't like baseball, there's nothing MLB could do to change that. Do what is best for the game and don't worry about anything else.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:37 pm to barry
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WHAT? Maybe at Yankee Stadium. Everywhere else you can get a good seat for 10-20 bucks.
You know how I know you don't have a clue?
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:39 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Also, I've finally come over to the dark side. As much as I hate the DH, I think the NL needs to go ahead, bite the bullet and adopt it.
I'm for this too. Have been for a long time now.
If "real baseball" is having a dude who is hitting .095 drive in a run with 2 outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd, then that's baseball's problem right there.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 9:25 pm to RollDatRoll
I would keep the 162 game season, but begin it in mid-March, with weekend doubleheaders.
I would also expand the WC series to best of three.
Best record gets home field in WS.
Enforce the strike zone.
Instant replay.
I would also expand the WC series to best of three.
Best record gets home field in WS.
Enforce the strike zone.
Instant replay.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 9:45 pm to RollDatRoll
It could stop being so fricking boring. That's all I've got 
Posted on 10/30/12 at 9:48 pm to Master of Sinanju
1.Shorten the season. Whether it is by more weekend double headers or less games (154) or both.
2.Shorten the games. Enforce the strike zone and the between-pitch clock (isn't it like 20 sec?) Stop letting batters step out to grab jock and fix their batting gloves every pitch.
3.Reggie Jackson is Mr October for a reason. Playoffs should not extend into November.
4.Contraction. 28 teams at most
5.DH in national league. Stop having seven pitching changes and double switches per game.
6.embrace technology. YouTube, replay, etc.
This is a start. From a life long baseball fan who wonders how to get my seven year old son interested.
2.Shorten the games. Enforce the strike zone and the between-pitch clock (isn't it like 20 sec?) Stop letting batters step out to grab jock and fix their batting gloves every pitch.
3.Reggie Jackson is Mr October for a reason. Playoffs should not extend into November.
4.Contraction. 28 teams at most
5.DH in national league. Stop having seven pitching changes and double switches per game.
6.embrace technology. YouTube, replay, etc.
This is a start. From a life long baseball fan who wonders how to get my seven year old son interested.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 10:26 pm to RollDatRoll
Baseball should take the lead in replay. Instead, they steadfastly try to hold on to stupid "tradition." If they would come up with a fast efficient replay system, this would appeal to the younger demographic. Someone should poison Bud Selig (in the figurative sense).
Posted on 10/30/12 at 10:55 pm to floridatigah
Just an observation from a non-fan
It seems that the fans themselves are the problem. I understand the argument that San Fran vs Detroit isn't a compelling matchup, but if you're a fan of the game, don't you watch it anyway?
If you put Seattle and Jacksonville in the Superbowl it would still break records for viewership, because people love the game. Football doesn't need "star power" like hoops or "big market teams" like baseball. It's watchable on its own merits.
Baseball just doesn't seem to have that IMO.
It seems that the fans themselves are the problem. I understand the argument that San Fran vs Detroit isn't a compelling matchup, but if you're a fan of the game, don't you watch it anyway?
If you put Seattle and Jacksonville in the Superbowl it would still break records for viewership, because people love the game. Football doesn't need "star power" like hoops or "big market teams" like baseball. It's watchable on its own merits.
Baseball just doesn't seem to have that IMO.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 11:37 pm to Zach
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2. Ticket prices are too high. When baseball was king a 12 year old boy could walk to the stadium every day during summer vacation and sit in the bleachers for 3 dollars. Even when dad drove me and bro to a game parking was free and the concessions were cheap
Every team has a couple thousand or so $12 seats for when they play the Pirates.
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5. Baseball is a game of statistics, probabilities and math. Especially geometry. Women don't like math.
Higher % of woman at MLB games than any other pro sport. Baseball is still the go to family sporting event.
This post was edited on 10/30/12 at 11:42 pm
Posted on 10/30/12 at 11:43 pm to mattz1122
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This year's WS was the lowest rated ever. Even though it's due in part to the markets involved and the overall decline of non-football sports on TV, it's pretty safe to say that baseball isn't "more popular than ever." lol
Ratings for everything are down for a multitude of reasons.
1. So many damn channels now. Seriously. 40 years ago, there were 3 channels. A few weeks ago, I counted the number of sports exclusive channels I have on my satellite and got up to 20 and just stopped counting. That's not including other networks that air sports like CBS, Fox, ABC, NBC, and FX. That was just sports-exclusive stations.
2. You can't keep track of a sports event without a tv. Seriously, why stay at home to watch a game when you can go out to eat and peak at your phone or tablet or whatever and keep up with it? Hell with the amount of available internet streams for games, why bother watching it on the network when you can pull up multiple games at once without paying for it?
3. The economy and the cost of going to games. The economy really speaks for itself. How much does it cost to go to a baseball game nowadays? I mean just for the ticket for a decent seat for a decent game? $20? $25? Why pay that when I can stay at home or go out to eat or hell hit up an indoor movie theater and pay half that for a movie? They don't charge for parking. Their concessions are cheaper. I already have a general idea of what I'm getting as opposed to going to a game where my team could get their asses handed to them.
Another hidden factor is that all these modernized parents have stopped pushing their kids to Little League and have started pushing them to faggy sports like Soccer and tennis. If I have a son and he is physically able to, he'll be out on the gridiron or on the diamond, not on the pitch or some tennis court. Yeah I pulled the pussification of America card.
Posted on 10/31/12 at 12:51 am to TheBiggestSpur
One word: Basketball
Posted on 10/31/12 at 12:56 am to cjared036
is less popular than baseball?
Posted on 10/31/12 at 1:18 am to cjared036
1. They need to find a way to slash prices. Baseball is the most family friendly sport by far yet the average family can not afford to attend more than a few games a year. For a family of four to get decent seats at Turner field, eat at the ballpark, and park the pricetag would be around $300.
2. This one will take awhile but I think the owners need to look into building their new stadiums (when the time comes) out in the suburbs. The majority of the fanbase, except in maybe New York, Boston, and Chicago, are not located in downtown big city areas. For me to go to a Braves game I have to leave 3 hours before the game and I'll get back about 2 hours after the game ends. It's hard to justify going down there when I can fire up the grill, get some brews, have my friends over, and watch the game in the recliner for $30.
2. This one will take awhile but I think the owners need to look into building their new stadiums (when the time comes) out in the suburbs. The majority of the fanbase, except in maybe New York, Boston, and Chicago, are not located in downtown big city areas. For me to go to a Braves game I have to leave 3 hours before the game and I'll get back about 2 hours after the game ends. It's hard to justify going down there when I can fire up the grill, get some brews, have my friends over, and watch the game in the recliner for $30.
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