Posted on 10/27/2016 6:35:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: This is from America's Newsroom this morning on Fox. They had a sports reporter there by the name of Jared Max. He was talking about the World Series. Question: "The series has gotten an enormous amount of hype as being historic and exciting for the entire Midwest and the rest of the country. How do you think it's looking for so far on that measure," Jared?
MAX: We're talking so much every week about numbers down to the NFL. You know, several years ago people said, "America's pastime? No, the NFL rules the league." Well, NFL ratings are down it seems every week. We have 30% larger audience than last year's Game 1 of the World Series. I believe it might be because people know they're gonna turn on the baseball game and hear "God bless America" and not worry about people kneeling for the anthem or have athletes who are gonna be preaching about political issues. What is more American than baseball?
RUSH: Okay. So now we have something to compare. Major League Baseball, World Series, Chicago -- a romantic team, heading into the World Series for 71 years. The Cubs, and the Indians. Two Midwestern teams: Chicago, fairly decent population center, but it's not New York or LA. But it's big. And Cleveland. So two Midwestern, upper Midwestern teams. The temperatures are in the fifties playing these games. Ratings are up 30% over last year. So it's not that people are tuning out of sports, and there's a lot of baseball.
People in the NFL say, "We're overexposed, you know? We have all these games on Sunday then we got Sunday night, then we got Monday night, then we got Thursday night. There's too much football." You can watch every damn baseball game in the world if you want to. They televise every damn one of them. Ratings are up 30%. This reporter here may have a point. The people tuning in know they're not gonna watch the flag disrespected. They're not gonna watch the players during pregame introductions lay down, sit down, take a knee when the national anthem is played. He may have a point.
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I have always been a much larger fan of football than baseball. I do like MLB and have been to a few Big League (bigly? lol) games.
For some reason I’m good with this, and I can understand this.
MAGA
Do the baseball players wear pink shoes in October?
Using the reporter’s logic, 160+ games should have worn out the American public. Instead, more Americans are tuning in baseball and tuning out football.
I asked former Red Sox player Fred Lynn why Neon Deon talk smack on the baseball field like he did on the football field and he said he would have gotten a 90 mph fastball in his ear.
EFF THE NFL
The World Series is like the super bowl
Regular games are half empty
The money is made on tv
and there are MORE foreigners in MLB than the NFL. Been to countless Dodgers and M’s games, and they all stand up to respect OUR flag. Then again, having the homies be the minority in MLB is a good thing.
The World Series is far more interesting than your average Super Bowl.
This year is a little different because you have a great storyline: two old franchises playing against each other, one of which hasn't won a World Series since 1948 and the other one since 1908.
I don't think comparisons to last year's ratings are all that relevant, either. The Mets are a big-market team but they don't have nearly as many fans as the Yankees, and Kansas City is one of the smaller big-league sports markets in the U.S.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for MLB to expand their fan base manyfold if you do the right thing and go 100% pro-American, and 0% politically correct.
No pink October, no race-baiting,...just baseball.
Do that and I guarantee you the money will be flowing into your coffers like never before. And people will start to say “NFL? What’s that?”.
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“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.
Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.
But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]
During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN U, ABC, CBS, the SEC Network, Big-10 Network.
ESPN and SEC Network will re-run games all week.
No one is saying college football is overexposed.
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“Jose Fernandez -the NL Rookie of the Year in 2013 - came to the United States by boat as a 15-year-old Cuban refugee in 2008. Along the way, he rescued his mother, who had fallen overboard.
However, his beloved grandmother, who Fernandez calls a “baseball freak,” was left behind.
“She’s the love of my life... my everything,” Fernandez said.
The day before winning the Rookie of the Year Award, a shocked Fernandez was reunited with his grandmother in Florida with help from Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-mlb-star-jose-fernandez-reunited-with-grandmother-for-first-time-since-defecting-from-cuba/
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That's because it means something to them. Not too many NFL players got here in a boat in hostile waters. It is a reasonable expectation that ghetto trash with a sense of entitlement have no respect for their real country when they are told that nobody built that.
Exactly the point! One organization and its members police themselves. The other organization believes themselves above policing.
It’s the thug factor for me. The NBA and NFL have been overtaken by thug culture. MLB has not. I am watching more baseball this year and little to no basketball and football.
Pop Warner is okay, and High school in Texas on Friday night. Otherwise, baseball is the better game.
The CUBS no matter how badly they play always fill Wrigely.
It’s the trendy place to be.
Regular games are half empty
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Evidently you don’t watch Cardinal base ball, a team which didn’t even make the playoffs this year yet their home games are packed. Almost always 40,000 to 46,000 (capacity about 46,000).
White and Latino players who respect America, her flag and her anthem. NO protests. Sounds good to me. The NFL is dead to this FReeper. I occasionally watch postgame highlights (on youtube not NFL.com), but never watch games ater previously being a fanatic. I hope Goodell & Co. lose billions for their treachery.
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