Depends on the market. Baseball is just as popular as ever in Philadelphia. I’m sure what you speak of is happening nationally but not in this market. The local TV deal for Phillies baseball is the most lucrative contract for all of the major sports in our market. The Phillies through the week out draw everything in local ratings.
So many of the games are played on weekday afternoons. It’s almost like it’s self sabotage.
Sure the same can be said for Yankees baseball
Yea this week was a perfect example. What is the point of getaway day games if teams are off the following day? I think Wednesday had all day game games except 2 or 3 while 20 teams had off yesterday
Agreed. Stakes was talking playoff viewership and I was talking about 12:30-1:30 first pitches on a Tuesday is a big let down for the real baseball fan. You’ve probably watched or followed 130+ of your team’s 162 games and you’re rewarded with having to move mountains and fuck around with work to catch one of the most important games of the year? That’s so gay.
Unfortunately now days kids are never exposed to a neighborhood baseball game. Far too many other distractions now.
Yeah, The Sandlot days so to speak, are far behind us.
And it’s a real shame. Those ball fields kept a lot of kids from going the wrong way.
No offense but every major sports team in your area has been garbage for quite some time with a blip from the Nationals and the Capitals. They’ve been mostly listless dog shit. No group of sports fans in the world are going to show up and pay attention to people just rolling the ball out and mismanaging things like the Redskins National and Bullets have done. Thank God the Capitals lucked into Ovechkin or they would be a mess as well.
Bynum didn’t even play a minute as a Sixer. Bynum is a piece of shit malingerer.
