Posted on 10/23/2014 5:58:56 AM PDT by C19fan
The Kansas City Royals were a great story in baseball this year, but as a team with little star power that hails from a small market, their surprise run to face the San Francisco Giants in the World Series may not be resonating with more casual sports fans.
Fox attracted a still-sizable audience to Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Tuesday — 12.2 million — but this left it tied with the 2012 Texas-San Francisco opener, which previously had been the smallest audience to kick things off. Last year’s World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox averaged about 15 million, jumping 23% from 2012.
And in the adults 18-49 demo, Tuesday’s game did a 3.4 rating to win the night for Fox. This was down 19% from last year (4.2) and 6% from 2012 (3.6) for a new low.
Bush’s fault.
Baseball should stop before Hockey begins.
I started and continue to support:
Bush43 for Commish!
No, hockey should wait till baseball finishes ;-)
I pretty much quit watching when the Tigers were eliminated. Royals and their fans are a pretty classy bunch and I wish them much luck. They gave the Tigers a great battle for the division title.
Personally I expected the Orioles to go to the big show.
We aren’t exactly in a time of national peace and rest. With all of the panic-related news, is it any wonder people are seeking less entertainment? Too much money has been spent making sure we are worried about blood spurting out of our eyeballs or being beheaded.
It hasn’t been hyped much in my area. If you aren’t a baseball fan you wouldn’t even know it was taking place.
I think a big part of the ratings free fall has to do with FOX pushing it’s new cable station, FOX Sports 1, by putting most of the playoff games on cable. I wanted to get into the playoffs this year, but couldn’t because most of the games weren’t on broadcast TV. I might tune in though my girlfriend’s dad is a Giants fan.
“Too much money has been spent making sure we are worried about blood spurting out of our eyeballs or being beheaded.”
Yeah its not like those are actual risks or anything.
It's suicidal by MLB from a long term marketing point of view. Where is the next generation of fans to come from? Kids who don't watch won't play. It's hard to build a fanbase from a population who has never played.
I know that this probably matters to the league, but I wish it wouldn’t. Any series without NYY is a good series. The fact that there is no BOS is also a bonus. Rounding it out, I’m also thankful that the NATS are out of it so I don’t have to hear a bunch of MSM morons who know nothing about sports jumping on the bandwagon and gushing every day.
All pro seasons should be shorter
Generally yes, but it can vary depending on your local “ice out” date.
Maybe I’m just showing my age and past viewing of baseball....but there is a dramatic change to the whole game.
In the 1970s...you had a powerhouse team or two that would charge up to the final month of the season and put on a big show with a four-star and three-star pitching duo, a grand bullpen guy, some guy who hit 40 home-runs, two guys hitting near .320, a center-field who’d steal seventy bases, and some aging outfield who’d knock in 120 RBI’s. Year after year, you saw teams like this and both teams (National and American) were built the same way. Sometimes, you even got a team to show up with four pitchers who’d carry fifteen wins each, and a catcher who’d hit forty home-runs.
Today? The Oakland A’s marginal economic plan team is generally being used. You have teams of odd character. The Giants have one guy who knocked 89 RBI’s (team leader for that category). Two guys figure for stolen bases but between them....they got only 29 SB’s. After their 18-game winner, it drops dramatically down to 12 wins for Lincecum.
The Royals? They have one guy who hit 19 HR’s...beyond that it’s all marginal talk. RBI’s? A bunch of guys who hit between forty and seventy RBIs....nothing beyond that. They had a couple of guys who ran a good bit. And they have one five-star reliever.
Exciting or the kind of teams you’d compare against the 1973 Reds or the 1971 Pirates? No, neither the Giants or Royals match up against them. So, both of these teams have earned the right to be there....but frankly....they just don’t have anything much to say over their stat’s or players. Either team carrying a guy who might be worthy of HoF? No.
God that's funny!! I've gotta show this to my nephew-in-law who,having grown up in Jersey,is a Mets and Jets fan.
Mid-June?....hey,the BoSox season was over in May this year.
"Fox attracted a still-sizable audience to Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Tuesday — 12.2 million — but this left it tied with the 2012 Texas-San Francisco opener, which previously had been the smallest audience to kick things off."
Hmmm... It's KC's fault? But the one common denominator for the two lowest rated openers is......
yeah, and no, I haven't tuned in either...
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