MLB 2014 season thread

I think that's exactly it, Dick. They want to shame you for loving something that's great.

 

I know. That's how I felt about Barry Manilow once.

 

Ratings/attendance/#BaseballIsDead stories = trollery
HardballTalk specializes in this.

 

I haven't seen anything since the end of this round, but I coulda swore I read the ratings were up something like 15 percent after the divisional series.

 

I have a friend who dumps on every band that has sold more than 10 albums, and constantly name checks death metal bands that five people listen to ... but won't ever shut the fuck up about football's ratings as compared to baseball's.

 

oops wrong thread. Carry on

 

Postseason is for baseball.
If the ratings ain't there, boo-hoo-hoo.

As if ratings should shame any team for getting to the World Series ...

 

If anyone hasn't been watching Lorenzo Cain because he doesn't play in a big enough city, well, that's just a person who isn't much into baseball.

The news industry could learn something from baseball about catering to the fans you have instead of trying to lure the fans you'll never get.

 

To be fair, Cain had never surpassed 400 at-bats in a season before this year and he was a huge disappointment in 2013. Even this season, he missed time, which made it easy to miss the step forward he took this year.

 

Agreed. Baseball's uneven playing field has always been more of a public perception issue than anything else. The big markets still have the advantage, but it is not as drastic as it used to be and that runs like Kansas City's this year help demonstrate that.

The ideal for baseball is to keep the big markets strong, especially with so much of the sport's revenue coming in regionally rather than nationally, while ensuring a public perception of parity. The Royals are helping to make that happen. Those 29 years out of the playoffs will be forgotten by many fans regardless of how this World Series turns out.

 

I wonder how much the value of the Royals franchise has increased in the past few weeks.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/10/16/boring-san-francisco-giants-threaten-world-series-ratings-again/