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Originally Posted by UMP25
You cannot compare baseball to other sports in terms of ratings, JR, without tweaking numbers. Baseball plays 162 games a year for 6-7 months. They play every day of the week except for two specific dates (two dates on which no major pro sport plays, BTW). Football plays, for the most part, on one day a week--Sundays (I'm not including Monday Night Football here because that's one game and not most/all of the NFL).
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Baseball is no longer "America's pastime" Baseball is strictly a Regional sport
If the Indians win and play the Rockies - How many people will watch that series? You might have some "novice" fans because the Rockies are this years Cinderella team but by and large if there is an Indian Rockies World Series watch the ratings plummet.
Also, the TBS network is not seen in every home. One of the games ened at around 2 - 2:30 eastern Time - Who stayed up to watch that.
The NBA , NHL and MLB have all become Regional Sports and their playoffs are on cable outlets.
If the NBA , NHL and MLB had great ratings do you think the major networks would give the playoff package to these "other outlet' cable networks.
Therefore in a nutshell, unless your team is in the playoffs no one cares.
When MLB allowed BIG market teams to have their own cable outlets (ie, MSG, YES FSNY etc. ) is when baseball became a Regional Sport.
Also, Football is on TV almost every night of the week if you include College Football.
Forget about MLB competing with the NFL, MLB cannot compete with local programming which is why CBS / NBC/ ABC/FOX do not shell out the "big bucks" to televise these events.
In the future, you will be lucky to see the World Series on a major netwrok.
Pete Booth