Posted on 05/02/2022 3:45:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie
With about one month of Major League Baseball’s 2022 season in the books, it appears that the woke pro league is having trouble getting fans to turn on their TVs. According to Sports Media Watch, no game has reached 300,000 viewers over the past two weeks.
Even a college softball game beat the 300,000 mark. “Brewers-Phillies averaged a 0.7 rating and 1.11 million viewers on last weekend’s edition of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, down sharply from Padres-Dodgers on ESPN and ESPN2 on the same weekend last year (2.01M*),” Sports Media Watch reported. “With ESPN’s regular season coverage now consisting almost solely of Sunday night games, no other MLB window over the past two weeks has cracked the 300,000 viewer mark,” the site added.
“FS1 drew a 0.12 and 202,000 for White Sox-Twins last weekend, while TBS drew 206,000 and 234,000 for its two Tuesday night games over that span,” SMW added. Worse for the league, except for Sunday Night Baseball, MLB games haven’t even earned as many viewers as ESPN’s Virginia Tech-Tennessee college April 21 softball game (343K).
The rough start to the 2022 season comes on the heels of the woke league’s terrible 2021 ratings. Last year’s All-Star Game, for instance, earned its second-lowest ratings of all-time. MLB also suffered a 49 percent crash in Sunday Night Baseball ratings.
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College women's softball is fast-paced and unwoke. IOW, pleasant to watch.
I’ll take Women’s Volleyball...
They just renamed the Cleveland Indians the Guardians. They are experimenting with more woman commentators. They stuck the designated hitter into the National League. The commercials on these broadcasts feature ninety percent blacks. It’s a ridiculous woke endeavor.
I don’t know why, as i used to be a big seamhead and had two fantasy baseball teams. But this year I just feel totally indifferent to MLB.
The left will ruin that too. Someday you’ll tune in thinking you’re checking out the nice derriere of a fine looking female volleyball player, and eventually find out it’s a tranny.
I will not watch the Cleveland Constipators.
I like to watch old clips of the movie “Major League.” Cleveland was still the Indians, and they still should be to this day.
Itz not.politically correct, but there are some cute attractive gals out there in softball.
I stopped watching and I used to love baseball.
Possibly, but most hotties have a hip to waist ratio.
Hopefully, that issue is crushed sooner than later.
Rename the leagues XX and XY leagues.
I won’t watch, period, unless they require the players to stand for the National Anthem.
Like listening to baseball on the radio. Something nice to do at the end of the day.
ESPN coverage is awful. The worst I have ever seen.
“Nice catch Hayes, don’t ever...”
You nailed it. Baseball is FAR better on the radio.
These sports corporations weren't going broke because they went woke; they went woke because they were going broke and were desperate for anything that would stave off the inevitable decline.
I have heard there are some reasons to decline in TV viewing.
Younger fans aren’t as much into baseball. Three hour long plus games tax the patience of young fans short attention spans. Baseball is a slow game with a lot of dead time in a game. There are tons of options with streaming services to watch something else. Game highlights are readily available online to catch the highlights later if you didn’t watch the game.
For many, it’s just not must see TV.
I still find MLB more interesting than the snooze fest that is the NFL with “timeouts” and the commercial breaks.
I’ve stopped watching everything from professional football to baseball to Nascar. I only watch college football in the fall. And, if the team I support goes “woke”, I’ll stop watching them as well.
I haven’t watched since the Mariners won 116 games and lost in the 1st round ofvthe playoffs.
But the 162 game season is way too much. Even the NBA’S 82 game season is too long.
MLB should cut their season to 82 games and play only Thursday-Sundays.
Not that I give a rip anymore.
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