Posted on 10/27/2016 6:35:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
I played organized baseball through college.
Then I played in various softball leagues for another 10 years.
I loved every second of playing.
But watching it on TV?
No thanks.
Watching MLB is even more boring than watching Soccer.
As I get older, even football isn’t as enjoyable to watch. Stopped watching baseball about 20 years ago.
I’ve also noticed that, like some people here have pointed out, there aren’t 400 trillion million billion quadzillion ads in MLB games like there are in football. Even though baseball is a slow moving sport, they haven’t figured out how to jam in a lot of extra breaks for commercials like they do in football and basketball.
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Yeah. Baseball players aren’t viewed as a bunch of anti American a$$holes.
Game 1 of the World Series had the best ratings since 2005.
With the antics of Colin Kapaernick & his mirror images, I have decided that I can find something else to watch other than NFL football-—except for Tom Brady & the Patriots & the Packers.
I am a hard core football fan, and I won’t watch any other teams until they come to grips with & stop the lunacy of Kap & the others.
Kap had a VERY ice life as an adopted 1/2 white —1/2 black kid. He hasn’t been ‘oppressed’ in any way...so he is proving that he is nuts, IMO.
Though I did enjoy hearing Andy Williams sing "Born Free" against a backdrop of wild animals being shot (heralding Rush's animal rights updates) and that really homo version of "You Don't Own Me" cueing the gay rights updates (Lesley Gore must be spinning in her grave). Plus some of the song parodies (like Bubba singing "You closed your eyes, I got elected, guess what, you're not protected" to the tune of the Fab Four's "All My Loving"). Rush got a lot of practice in his DJ days for the show that made him an institution.
I'll get around to reading that MLB/NFL transcript eventually. Please forgive me. Seriously.[blush]
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The more I enjoy MLB, the less I enjoy NFL. Its quite a stark transition ever autumn. And I grew up living for the NFL.
The NFL rose to popularity in the 1960s overtaking MLB as the most popular spectator sport in the US with TV and gambling. It has remained unchallenged since then. Even with the dip in ratings it will likely remain the big kahuna. If you took away the gambling I would guess interest would drop by half but that isn’t going to disappear. MLB has it’s own problems at least in terms of ratings on a national level. The recent suspension of the Seattle Mariners player for criticizing Obama shows the infiltration of PC there as well.
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