Thursday, June 13, 2013
Sports Media Watch: MLB Teams Beat NHL, NBA Finals on Local RSNs
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Are baseball fans the new silent majority?
Read More...Regular season baseball games outdrew Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final in fifteen television markets Wednesday night, including NHL strongholds Pittsburgh and Detroit.
The Giants/Pirates game on Root Sports earned an 8.95 rating in Pittsburgh, beating Bruins/Blackhawks Game 1 (5.99) by 49% head-to-head. In Detroit, the Tigers/Royals day game earned a 7.46 on Fox Sports Detroit — beating Game 1 (5.75) by 30%.
Baseball won the battle in seven other ...
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1. RMc and His Roster of Rubbish posted on December 07, 2011 at 03:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0This is my idea of Hell.
No, really. I love baseball, loved it all my life. But being required to watch every game and tell the world about it? Shudder.
like the poster above me pointed out, i would think that being forced to watch and blog about every game would be akin to the kind of torture afflicted upon alex in "a clockwork orange" during his mental re-programming.
Just put you lips together and blow.
The contest or the actual cave? I walked by the cave a few weeks ago and it just looks like a fancy sports bar.
That and there also seem to be some Survivor-like challenges and the audience gets to vote them out of the cave one at a time. I think.
I could probably do the latter.
spent many an hour there in the 70s
And the fact there are only 30 teams.
How in the hell could someone even afford to essentially devote 6 months to watching every game.
That was my question. I mean, I know what the current deal is with the economy and everything, but most people still work, do they not?
Not only would I have to give up my job; given the current economy I cannot be sure how long it would take me to get a new one when this nonsense was over.
On the other hand, my wife would probably love to get me out of the house for the summer.
I assume there are people out there who would do it for beer and chicken wings (that and peanuts cover a person's nutritional needs, right?).
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spent many an hour there in the 70s
It could have been worse. They could have been taking over where this was.
Really?
I mean - you're "working", even if just watching games and tweeting about it, every day for 6 months... beyond, what, the day before and after ASB (when I assume you'd be expected to watch and report on the festivities).
With Sunday night baseball -- I think that other than a maybe few random Mondays here and there, this means 6 months of NEVER going out to dinner, NEVER going to see a movie or a band, NEVER anything else...
I was thinking $50k -- thinking mainly that it also includes room and board on top -- might be decent compensation for 6 months of work, but the more I think about it, Chris is right... I'd probably want something in the six figure range.
July 4th, Labor Day, Memorial Day BBQs? Nope - working... family events, etc? Nope - working.
I mean, I don't exactly have a packed social calendar now and I'm pretty much working 6 days a week as it is -- but at least I can squeeze in the occasional happy hour or cook-out.
This sentence is amusing to me. That could just describe a bar with a jukebox, TV, pinball machine, a few paintings on the walls, and a young-ish clientele with iPhones. For example, if "interactive technology" means "darts," this could completely and accurately describe the extremely dive-y Grassroots Tavern on St. Mark's Place. It's even kind of a cave, too.
Not that that actually matters, but if we can't be obnoxiously overprecise on the internet, where can we be obnoxiously overprecise?
For Major League Baseball, it maybe a way to promote the game to attract relatively younger adult fans.
And as for the Fan Cave, we should look at the rules:
No mention of pay in there, though they do put you up and presumably feed you as well. The "Adhere to all other policies and procedures as required by MLB" is what really kills it for me. The way to make this enjoyable would be to go out of your way to do things that would displease MLB and turn it into something like performance art. This clause pretty much says that you have to work within the parameters they're happy with, or you're out on your ear. No fun.
Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here.
Neat trick, since Tower didn't open there until the mid-'80s.
Oh, absolutely. Plus, it's a month. I can scrape together enough paid vacation to do that. Doing the MLB thing means quitting my job.
Man, sleep in the U-Boat? I'd so do that.
I love that museum.
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Maybe one of us would work as the "SABR" contestant. The amount of idiotic abuse one would take - if they had a level head about themselves and were skilled at turning it around - would be worth it.
I probably would never pass the background check, though, out of fear I would say something about the people at MLB.com who I worked for. Or MLB.com, period.
it looks like a LOT of hard work. and no husband and kids. no dogs. no going outside and just taking a walk. or going shopping. i mean, seriously, living in NYC and no going to 5th avenue? even to look?
i wouldn't mind meeting some ballplayers and maybe getting a few hitting tips. especially from lefty swingers
hehhehheh
but seriously - cooped up for SIX months? no thank you.
I'm loving the idea already.
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