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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, October 17, 2022MLB could certainly use marquee team in Yankees advancing to ALCS
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Posted: October 17, 2022 at 10:02 AM | 27 comment(s)
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1. Obo Posted: October 17, 2022 at 10:28 AM (#6101187)The upstart Guardians are a nice story, sure, especially for hardcore fans. But to draw in the casual fan, the historic franchise is a near necessity.
If the only thing that draws the "casual fan" to baseball is familiarity, then fuck the "casual fan".
Part of it might be that whether the story is "Ratings are Up!" or "Ratings are Down!" the articles pretty much write themselves. Either way it's easy content.
Really? My defining characteristic of the NBA is a semi rigged sport that's driven primarily by TV ratings. Patrick Ewing going to the Knicks to help a big market, stars (especially Jordan) getting favorable calls, the 90's Knicks being bad for ratings, the Kings/Lakers fully rigged WCF, the NBA hating the (small market) Spurs dynasty, refs extending playoff series generally, playoff schedules trying to land on weekends, the whole coverup story beyond Tim Donaghy.
Husband, brothers, every person I know who watches been screaming bout this for years. the cheating refs are really obvious but the making different rules for STAHS!! and pimped treams hasn't decreased $$$ so until it does won't nothing happen. Husband and brothers don't watch like they used to just like i hardly ever watch baseball and refuse to watch any game with the pimped 4 Y/RS. if th Y get in the WS i won't be watching thanx to endless Y worship and butt licking by the announcers. if you asked me 10 years ago could i possibly not be obsessed with baseball or not bother to watch the WS i look at you like you insisting the sun rises in the west.
its like it's a play and theres 4 stars and the chorus. and ain't nobody in the chorus supposed to out act the stars. only worse because people KNOW that for a play there is a script even though it is live. a "sporting" event should NOT be scripted to make sure one of 4 teams is in the finals.
it was great when the rangers and the royals made it to the WS. the very LAST teams i want to watch are the pimped 4. i am bigly rooting for san diego vs cleveland
I'm sure the league cares about ratings, but I don't hear kvetching from Charles Barkley or Brian Windhorst about how the Milwuakee Bucks being in the Finals is bad for the sport and they need the Knicks/Celtics/Lakers/Warriors in the Finals to keep fan interest. Why the hell should fans care? I want a good matchup, I don't care how popular the team is.
Y/RS. if th Y get in the WS i won't be watching thanx to endless Y worship and butt licking by the announcers.
So what if it's the Astros? (smile) Have you forgiven them for switching to the DH league now that the DH is universal?
"People love to hate them" is an annoying thing that Yankees fans say. I don't 'love' to hate them. I just find them unpleasant and deeply annoying and would prefer to watch anyone else.
I'm actually excited about the World Series because it will be on broadcast television and I'll be able to watch the whole series. I haven't been able to watch a game in a while. For me it feels like 1970. I follow my favorite team on the radio and get to watch the All-Star Game and the World Series on TV.
I like many of the Astros players and admire their roster construction. And the presence of the Tiny Terror Tot would make me root for them over the Guardians and any NL team, though with Manny on the Padres it'd be a close call.
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"People love to hate them" is an annoying thing that Yankees fans say. I don't 'love' to hate them. I just find them unpleasant and deeply annoying and would prefer to watch anyone else.
Other than missing the postseason for a decade or two, what could the Yankees do to make themselves less annoying? Move out of New York? Grow beards and mustaches? Get rid of Sinatra? Stop complaining about gift strikes against Judge? Fire Paul O'Neill? Stop mentioning their history? Ditch the pinstriped look for something in teal or mustard yellow? Bar the bleacher creatures from the Stadium? Stop referring to Yankee Stadium as "the Stadium"? Take an online course on how to win friends and influence people? I'm open to suggestions.
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