I thought baseball was a dying past time?
greater crowds at a regular season day game than at any track meet besides Olympics.
BASEBALL IS BACK! Greatest sport their is.
90% mental 10% physical - Yogi
MLB stadiums PACKED over the weekend!
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Yes indeed!
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Actually the quote is, "90% mental and the other half physical." Remember, this is Yogi Berra you're talking about.
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They always are opening weekend. corporate and local sponsors have a large giveaway budget for this week and they're well connected to all the local youth leagues... not saying that's a bad thing but it pads the attendance
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Babe herman Ruth wrote:
I thought baseball was a dying past time?
greater crowds at a regular season day game than at any track meet besides Olympics.BASEBALL IS BACK! Greatest sport their is.
90% mental 10% physical - YogiWell regarding the crowd Yogi would have said, "nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded."
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Who cares ? Baseball doesn't care enough about the fans. I'm not ready to forgive them so fast. I actually heard on the news that many teams still had tickets for sale.
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The opening weekends are always well attended and then they get a second bump when the teams that opened on the road have their home opener.
Get back to us in July and August when the 21 teams have no one in their stadium. We also need to see the television numbers. That's what really matters and where the money is. You can have a salad every game but if no one's watching on TV you won't have that television revenue pouring in.
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Midweek games during the doldrums of late July and August you will find less than 10k at most parks.
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63738292827 wrote:
The opening weekends are always well attended and then they get a second bump when the teams that opened on the road have their home opener.
Get back to us in July and August when the 21 teams have no one in their stadium. We also need to see the television numbers. That's what really matters and where the money is. You can have a salad every game but if no one's watching on TV you won't have that television revenue pouring in.
Cable bundles the sports channels with different packages. If you have cable, you pay for it even when you don’t watch. They get their money regardless.
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I call BS. Only 23000 at Nats Park on a decent Sunday in DC. 21000 for a chillier Saturday game.
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It is dying in popularity. Opening weekend doing well doesn’t dispute this. You’re as silly as the OK senator that brought in a snowball to argue that global warming doesn’t exist. Welcome to being the 4th most popular sport in America.
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Yeah you go ahead and enjoy your snooze fest. I Gotta admit it was fun playing it on the playground but cmon you really watch this crap?
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I live close to the Mets home field and I never go. However when on vacation in another city I'll go with my family.
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63738292827 wrote:
You can have a salad every game but if no one's watching on TV you won't have that television revenue pouring in.
Who would pay to watch someone eat salad?
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PCRF-Guy wrote:
63738292827 wrote:
The opening weekends are always well attended and then they get a second bump when the teams that opened on the road have their home opener.
Get back to us in July and August when the 21 teams have no one in their stadium. We also need to see the television numbers. That's what really matters and where the money is. You can have a salad every game but if no one's watching on TV you won't have that television revenue pouring in.
Cable bundles the sports channels with different packages. If you have cable, you pay for it even when you don’t watch. They get their money regardless.
Many teams are now on those awful regional sports networks that are available only to dinosaurs still on cable or satellite. They're not available to cord-cutters via YouTube, Sling, Hulu Live, etc. in many markets. I don't understand the economics of it, but even potential viewership is way down under those conditions. Seems like they are taking a fairly unexciting product and making it hard to watch even if you wanted to. Sounds like track and field coverage.
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Waterloo1815kgl wrote:
Midweek games during the doldrums of late July and August you will find less than 10k at most parks.
Do you have data to support this claim? You are saying on a Tuesday night game that fewer than 10K will be at 16 major league parks. I think you are wrong.
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samcallan wrote:
Waterloo1815kgl wrote:
Midweek games during the doldrums of late July and August you will find less than 10k at most parks.
Do you have data to support this claim? You are saying on a Tuesday night game that fewer than 10K will be at 16 major league parks. I think you are wrong.
Attendance records from last season can easily be looked up.
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