Lame Monday night game beats classic ALCS game in ratings

[TNCowboy]

The MNF game was a blowout. If anyone cared at all about the baseball game, they would have just switched.

Obviously, that wasn't ESPN's thinking.....there are some people who forget about baseball. Since my team is long gone, I don't keep as close tabs, though I was last night, because I wanted to watch some of Lee pitching.

 

[StylisticS]

Well this is a given. I agree with SkinsandTerps and Patton. Baseball is fun to watch if you understand the dynamics of it especially if it is your team that is playing. But right now, they are led by a terrible commissioner and I truly believe that a good portion of the public still has not forgiven the public for the 1994 strike. I like baseball and I'm understanding the game more each year.

If baseball does allow more teams to get into the playoffs AND a salary cap makes other teams on an even playing level with each other, I think the interest of the game will start to go up.

 

[Aven8]

The ratings in the metroplex were around 100k for the MNF game and 1.2 million for the Rangers game. Now that's saying something. All 4 news cast only had 500k combined.

 

[Venger]

Last night was the first full baseball game I can recall watching, front to back, since I stopped following baseball and the Dodgers after the strike in 94. My interest in baseball left me.

Glad to be watching this Ranger team, they are a group worth rooting for.

I despise watching baseball on cable as much as I despise watching football on cable. Fact is MNF and MLB suck on cable.

Don't care that a crappy football game beat a quality baseball game in the ratings, the circus outdraws the museum, doesn't make it better. Also don't buy that a 2-0 lead with an ace makes it less exciting, that's partly why baseball is better than, say, soccer, because 2-0 in soccer is dreadful, in baseball it is always just a pitch away. The Yankees had an opportunity, worked Lee hard in the middle innings and got the leadoff man on, just couldn't get him past third. That was exciting and fun to watch.

Can't wait for tonight. At least Dallas has a team worth following right now...

 

[TNCowboy]

Fact is MNF and MLB suck on cable.

Amen to that.

 

[CATCH17]

Baseball is boring to those that do not understand it.

I didn't watch either game but would have watched baseball over that game too.

And, I love the game of baseball.

I played baseball all my life. Still boring.

But I'm watching it anyways cause of the Rangers.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Don't bring the old soccer argument into this. Everyone in America understands baseball. :laugh2:

haha. Definitely not using the soccer argument. Soccer sucks no matter what.

 

[Stautner]

Baseball is boring to those that do not understand it.

This is a true statement. Those theat played or at least have a good understanding of the game can recognize the skills and the strategies and the nuances, and that makes a game fun whther it is low scoring or a slugfest. Unfortunately not enough people know the game, and in baseball there isn't eh same fallback to keep fans entertained - violence.

Baseball is lame, boring and ratings continue to prove it. Time to slash the season in half to make it more interesting. Way too many games, same teams in the playoffs, etc...:laugh2:

I couldn't possibly disagree more with your description of baseball, and all lower ratings prove is that there are fewer people who can understand skills and strategies and nuances of baseball than there are people who can understand the violence in football.

I will, however, admit that the baseball season is a marathon that takes a hell of a long time to get through, and as such it is very hard for the average fan to stay glued to it from beginning to end. It's not like football where you build anticipation each week until Sunday finally rolls around, it's more of a lifestyle, complete with stretches of intense interest along with stretches where a fan just loses track for awhile.

 

[Cochese]

baseball will have a resurgence after the nfl gets done legislating hitting out of the game.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Ah, the old, "If you don't like baseball, it's only because you aren't sophisticated enough to understand it" argument.

I played both as a kid, and I've followed the Rangers for years now so this year is great. But football is a far superior game. The so-called violence of football is what makes it great and is nothing to apologize for.

 

[TRUTH87]

soccer > baseball

 

[windward]

My interest levels in sports is as follows:

1. NFL
2. College Football
3. MLB
4. NHL
5. NCAA BAsketball
6. NBA.

Love the Rangers since 1989. Thought it was cool that a crafty ole pitcher like Nolan Ryan was still so good at 40+ years old. Add in the fact they were in the same area as the Cowboys, it was a no brainer for me to choose them.

 

[Stautner]

Ah, the old, "If you don't like baseball, it's only because you aren't sophisticated enough to understand it" argument.

I played both as a kid, and I've followed the Rangers for years now so this year is great. But football is a far superior game. The so-called violence of football is what makes it great and is nothing to apologize for.

I don't have a problem with people liking the violence of football. I like it too. But that doesn't mean a sport that doesn't have it is boring. Certainly not if you understand the sport and "get" what is happening throughout the course of the game.

And by the way, I don't discount the strategy and nuances of football - there is certainly plenty of that in both sports.

 

[baj1dallas]

I played baseball all my life. Still boring.

But I'm watching it anyways cause of the Rangers.

yeah I watched it too for that reason, although Cliff Lee is moderately interesting to watch, although also boring because the hitters dont even swing half the time. I did use the DVR to skip forward a lot.

 

[Kangaroo]

This is a true statement. Those theat played or at least have a good understanding of the game can recognize the skills and the strategies and the nuances, and that makes a game fun whther it is low scoring or a slugfest. Unfortunately not enough people know the game, and in baseball there isn't eh same fallback to keep fans entertained - violence.


I couldn't possibly disagree more with your description of baseball, and all lower ratings prove is that there are fewer people who can understand skills and strategies and nuances of baseball than there are people who can understand the violence in football.

I will, however, admit that the baseball season is a marathon that takes a hell of a long time to get through, and as such it is very hard for the average fan to stay glued to it from beginning to end. It's not like football where you build anticipation each week until Sunday finally rolls around, it's more of a lifestyle, complete with stretches of intense interest along with stretches where a fan just loses track for awhile.

I understand Baseball just fine I grew up watching it on TV and playing it as a kid (Braves Fan here) yet between the 94 strike and everything else I kind of just lose interest all together I really do not follow it much the only games I have watched all of is when I gone to a few Astros games for free to hang out with some friends. Other wise I have watched more Pro Lacrosse games on espn2 than I have watched BaseBall. The structure of Baseball makes it hard to watch as well when to many teams like the Royals are nothing but Pro farm teams for other markets

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Baseball is boring to those that do not understand it.

I didn't watch either game but would have watched baseball over that game too.

And, I love the game of baseball.

A Skin and baseball fan. Double fail.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Used to be a big baseball fan before the strike. Can’t get into it anymore for whatever reason. Haven’t watched a single game in years and wont just because the Rangers are in the playoffs. I ended up playing online poker in the second half.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

A Skin and baseball fan. Double fail.

Says the guy that lives in the woods, yet calls us rednecks or hicks. haha.

 

[juck]

Baseball is a sport for intelligent,interesting people. Not many of them in our Big ole USA.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

The NFL is America's past time now... Who honestly cares about baseball and I'm a Yankees fan. But if a Cowboys game is on and the Yankees are playing, guess which game I'm looking at?