What is the Point of Playing in the Rain?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Play the Super Bowl as a 7-game event and it no longer WILL be a national event or holiday. You're comparing apples and oranges again.

MLB could not beat out a regular season football game with two teams that are in "small markets" on a prime time stage. This is the post season; I would expect a so-called "major" sport to beat out any regular season game during their post season. And this was a game that determines who is going to the World Series, not just a Divisional Series and with teams that just barely made the playoffs. The NBA Playoffs run during the basketball season and I do not think they consistently get beat by national MLB coverage during the same time in ratings. And their ratings are not that good either during the highest stage.

Originally Posted by UMP25

Does Michigan play 162 games each season? Do they play almost every day of the week? No. If they did, would they draw 100,000 each game? Heck no!

Michigan is the example I used. I could have talked about any number of programs across the country and they fill their stadiums even when their teams are horrible.

Also the fact you keep talking about 162 games also makes my point. The season is too long. And MLB does not market their players very well at all. NFL Players wear helmets and the average fan would know who many of their top players are without their helmets. I cannot name 5 guys that played in the game last night that I knew anything about. Even last year there were several players that were top players in MLB and the ratings were terrible.

The bottom line is MLB is no longer the America's Past time. Kids do not play it as a playground game anymore (they do not even play video games with the MLB logo without making the game freakishly arcade-like and totally unrealistic). When they do play it is so organized I wonder if the kids are actually having any fun. And the major pro league does not even let the public know who their best players are and I am sure the scandals do not help either. When I was a kid I knew all the top players and there as not the 24 ESPN and Sports cycles the way there is today.

Just admit this sport is not what it was and likely will never be. The next thing you will tell me is Hockey is still relevant.

Peace