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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, July 20, 2022MLB All-Star Game draws record-low 7.634 million viewers
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Posted: July 20, 2022 at 11:20 PM | 26 comment(s)
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1. Pat Rapper's Delight (as quoted on MLB Network) Posted: July 21, 2022 at 02:38 AM (#6087566)Everyone agrees that the majority of players on the All-Star Roster are of little interest. Everyone disagrees on which specific players are of little interest. Marlins fans were probably more interested in Cooper, for example, than in Machado.
So we're agreed that everyone preferred to see Machado?
I can't believe 6 million sickos watch the Pro Bowl.
So, to suddenly toss a sporting event into the middle of prime time and expect viewers who have no access to baseball whatsoever, and expect them to watch three hours of a game is a pipe dream. For the viewers who are not into sportsball..all the players are unknowns. All of them.
Put Trout on local TV every night here in Socal and he would be a media superstar and known by millions. Leave him in the local cable TV ghetto, and very few people will care.
Uh ... this isn't 1980 and most people have cable/streaming now. You've maybe heard about how network TV ratings in general have plummeted across the board over the last few decades now? It's been in the news a fair amount.
Just imagine: "cable TV ghetto" ... in 2022.
But Fox. One more reason to hate them.
I've never heard that euphemism for chasing skirt.
And now you can't see them play at all! Ha! Checkmate, atheists...!
Now that many of the best players are from other countries, I look forward to the WBC more than the All-Star game.
At least at the WBC, teams care if they win or not.
Which is one of the main problems with today's All-Star game, at least for the position players. Does the NBA All-Star game remove all its best players at halftime?
Since it's now purely an exhibition game where 90% of the viewers don't care who wins, why not allow unlimited substitutions? Let Ohtani and Judge leave the game in the 5th inning and then be allowed to re-enter as pinch-hitters later. It makes no sense in an ordinary game, but neither does ending an ordinary game with your best players sitting on the bench.
No, but they don't play the entire game either.
once buddy boy started interleague play in order to get all teams just "mlb" and the AL and NL just initials, and all the - each team sends one person, and (after the mussina thingy) that everyone had to be substituted in - you talk participation trophy - well, really, it stopped being interesting. it feels like watching 5-6 year olds play "little league" and not a real game. yeah, participation trophy stuff. i am surpised they Whiteys don't complain about that. or all the furrinerz darkinin up their nice White game. of course i don't know any old White guy righty White fans IRL
the last time i remember caring was 04 when i went in person. i think we were still punching cards at the ballpark which made me care a LOT more before i understood that i needed to know how to program bots and use ways to escape the unique IP address block
if you don't have any actually FREE games to watch like you do other sports well, fewer and fewer people are going to even accidentally catch a game and become interested. im not sure how on earth baseball picks up ANY fans any more and their old White guy demographic they love so much ain't gettin no younger
No, but they don't play the entire game either.
Right, but they're allowed to sit down and then return, which baseball players aren't. Which is why I suggested that the usual rule of no-returns be suspended for the All-Star game, so an Ohtani or a Judge might be able to come back and play in the 8th or 9th inning in a close game.
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we haven't mentioned all the stars/starters who don't go and/or don't start. or all the pitchers that don't go/can't go because of when they last played. ROLL EYES!!!!!
Yeah, we've come a long way since "If I ain't startin', I ain't departin'" was seen as mark of bad baseball character.
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