"Baseball is a dying sport"

[SlinkyRedfoot]

More disappointment to come. Much more.

...for Tigers fans.

 

[kburjr]

ML baseball is a different gane depending on the month. March/early April is excitement for the season. May, reality sets in for some. June, waiting for the swoon. July, no swoon. Go team, go. August just hold on September is coming. September When does football start or football can wait another month. October back to the drawing board(except one team) still the best baseball month. November How the Packers doing? December when do pitchers and catchers report?

 

[Center Ice]

Every single hockey goal ever is like 90% luck.

Closes eyes.

Swings stick.

Maybe if it ricochets off 3 people it will go in.

 

[Rambunctious]

A baseball game isn't that much longer than an NFL game.

But the NFL has cheerleaders.

 

[Indrid Cold]

Other leagues do well in the North East.
AAA teams like the Paw Sox and where I live the Cape Cod Baseball League: Home for the upcoming college guys play in the summer.

I drove up to Montpelier with a buddy to see a game years ago, it was pretty fun. They only had a very limited number of seats in a grandstand and we didn't bring chairs, so we ended up standing for the whole game....was worried about sitting down on a dog or cow crap in the grass.
I think it was an all star game, maybe it was the playoffs (NECBL)....the atmosphere was very lively and the folks there really cared about the game. There was a lot of chitchat about the finer points and I instigated a standing O of sorts for a RFer who did a great job backing up an overthrow of first, I pointed at him and yelled out a compliment about his heads up play and he smiled and pointed back at me....the folks around me then gave him a big cheer for playing the game right.
The best part was that nobody chanted Yankees Suck!!!

 

[Pure Steel]

I drove up to Montpelier with a buddy to see a game years ago, it was pretty fun. They only had a very limited number of seats in a grandstand and we didn't bring chairs, so we ended up standing for the whole game....was worried about sitting down on a dog or cow crap in the grass.
I think it was an all star game, maybe it was the playoffs (NECBL)....the atmosphere was very lively and the folks there really cared about the game. There was a lot of chitchat about the finer points and I instigated a standing O of sorts for a RFer who did a great job backing up an overthrow of first, I pointed at him and yelled out a compliment about his heads up play and he smiled and pointed back at me....the folks around me then gave him a big cheer for playing the game right.
The best part was that nobody chanted Yankees Suck!!!

Montpelier must be a gated community.......

 

[Carnzo]

I drove up to Montpelier with a buddy to see a game years ago, it was pretty fun. They only had a very limited number of seats in a grandstand and we didn't bring chairs, so we ended up standing for the whole game....was worried about sitting down on a dog or cow crap in the grass.
I think it was an all star game, maybe it was the playoffs (NECBL)....the atmosphere was very lively and the folks there really cared about the game. There was a lot of chitchat about the finer points and I instigated a standing O of sorts for a RFer who did a great job backing up an overthrow of first, I pointed at him and yelled out a compliment about his heads up play and he smiled and pointed back at me....the folks around me then gave him a big cheer for playing the game right.
The best part was that nobody chanted Yankees Suck!!!

Small is sometimes better. Prime example right here.

 

[Indrid Cold]

Montpelier must be a gated community.......

It's mind boggling that Montpelier is a state capitol, it's barely even there.
It makes Burlington VT look like Tokyo....

 

[JohnU]

There aren't as many kids playing ball now because there aren't as many kids. Populations are spreading out and the schools are opting for more diverse sports that aren't as expensive to play -- and are (according to them), safer.

That's not a rail or rant on PC or anything of the sort. Baseball isn't the game of choice in the cities and hasn't been for decades. The pros are filled with privileged kids who play in travel leagues with good coaches and facilities.

To that end, there will always be quality play in the leagues, if you keep the channels open in Asia and Latin islands.

The game won't die out in our lifetimes but it will be less appealing if the MLB strategy is to keep scaring the fans away with bogus plans to move the mound back (They decided not to do that btw) and other various attempts to sell more nachos to people who can't read a scoreboard.

I hope to live long enough to go the game and sit with 3,000 people who actually are there to watch baseball. Pace of play won't matter to us. I don't need no screamin' scoreboard and music on the 29th decibel. The usual stuff plus the babe with the tight pink top ... just strollin' by on her way to ... er, um ... the nachos stand.

 

[eaglesnut]

So does $ spent by Chinese fans for NBA products not go towards NBA revenues?

Do you have some insider info that nobody else has? Or do you just not understand how revenues are calculated?

Trying to help you understand... Baseball isn't an alive sport because of how much the japanese like it. Do you know what thread you're in?

 

[eaglesnut]

I don't live in Cuba.

And am not aware of any African participants. None.

What about basketball?

 

[BigRedMoe]

It's mind boggling that Montpelier is a state capitol, it's barely even there.
It makes Burlington VT look like Tokyo....

Are there a lot of used panty vending machines in Burlington?

 

[nuraman00]

I finished the first page of this thread.

Seeing some contrasting viewpoints.

I think it raises the question, what is more important, if any? Attendance, revenue, the amount of sponsorship revenue, the number of kids playing the sport, the number of viewers following the sport on TV/radio/stream, the number of people playing video games for that sport (because it at least shows an interest in the sport), the number of new books written about the sport, the amount of discussion that sport gets on social media, or the number of websites / blogs / articles / statistical databases (like prosportstransactions, or baseball-reference) about that sport?

Something like popcormachine.net probably counts too, in that latter websites/blogs category, since it's a specialized website for basketball that provides game flows.

 

[Indrid Cold]

Are there a lot of used panty vending machines in Burlington?

I did see some used lumberjack boxer machines in VT....

 

[StanMarsh51]

Trying to help you understand... Baseball isn't an alive sport because of how much the japanese like it. Do you know what thread you're in?

So international appeal doesn't matter when it comes to the growth/popularity of the league/sport? Sounds retarded...

If you're trying to figure out whether Nike or McDonalds is dying for example, do you only look at US revenues? Same logic, no?

 

[Ojb81]

Are you counting chinese?

Not sure how to break this to you, but they don't count.

how progressive of a left-leaning individual like yourself, hmmmm?

 

[eaglesnut]

So international appeal doesn't matter when it comes to the growth/popularity of the league/sport? Sounds retarded...

If you're trying to figure out whether Nike or McDonalds is dying for example, do you only look at US revenues? Same logic, no?

You do sound retarded in this American baseball thread.

I guess rice is the #1 food to you too.

 

[eaglesnut]

how progressive of a left-leaning individual like yourself, hmmmm?

 

[Ojb81]

keep scratchin', scratchy

 

[Ojb81]

Sniff my penis.

smells like.....smegma