Posted on 10/26/2018 6:52:22 AM PDT by C19fan
It seems like this World Series matchup between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers isnt the ratings draw MLB was hoping it would be. The ratings for both Games 1 and 2 are down from their 2017 counterparts, and represent the lowest ratings for those games in at least three years.
According to Sports Media Watch, Tuesdays Game 1, played at 8 p.m. ET local time at Fenway Park, came in at an 8.2 rating and 13.76 million viewers. Thats a 6 percent drop in ratings and an 8 percent drop in viewers from 2017s Game 1 between the Houston Astros and the Dodgers.
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That explains it. I stopped following Baseball during the last strike.
The World Series of baseball has been played in October for at least a hundred years.
It always seemed like a warm time of year back in the day when I followed it. Global cooling must be throwing me off.
Also World Series games used to take place in the daytime.
That seems to be the case in all sports, where are the boxing personalities, or the tennis personalities, like we had in the 1970s. A Heavyweight Championship fight, or a Wimbledon final, was "must watch TV", now, meh.
“A few years ago when Halo 3 came out for Xbox, 1st day sales were more than total ticket sales for the NY Yankees (Over 3 million attendance that year).”
That’s really interesting. If you were a general and told you had to go to war with a division of Xbox players or baseball fans, which would you choose?
With remote controlled drones in the air and on the ground seeming the future of the battlefield I don’t know. I suspect both groups have a significant portion of their populations that are overweight.
This is the matchup MLB wanted. Get teams from east and west coasts, what could go wrong?
Yes, they are awesome. Sorry I called them posters.
Good answer.
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