Last week I was listening to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," and one of the guests was comedian Zainab Johnson. During the final round (Lightning Fill in the Blank), Johnson was asked to complete this sentence: "On Friday the Arizona Diamondbacks face the Texas Rangers in the first game of the 2023 BLANK." Johnson replied "Don't even know what sport that is." A good joke, but for a lot of people I think it rings true.
On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 10:22:00 AM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > I am a baseball fan, and while I knew the series was going on I barely > cared. I watched most of the games the morning after, FF through major > segments, and perhaps most telling, was never in jeopardy of having the > final score spoiled because it seemed absolutely nobody in my social media > networks cared enough to discuss the games. > > MLB partly just got unlucky with two teams with low interest from the > southwest with no connection to high population east coast TV markets. > > I give them some credit this year. I was against the pitch clock at first, > a proponent of the idea that one of the things that makes baseball unique > is that it has no clock. But I was quickly won over, the clock cut a lot of > the dead air out, and games were more than 20 minutes shorter than the > previous year. At an average length of 2’40”, down from over 3 hours the > previous season, they approached the classic period when a baseball game > was usually over in less than 2 hours and 20 minutes. Far more enjoyable. > > But greed still drives them to artificially inject drama into the season > with too many wildcards, and too many post season games. One result is the > WS was decided in freaking November, and League Championship and World > Series games are competing for attention with NFL mid-season games, a > competition MLB will always lose. > > But it’s worse than that, WS baseball not only got beat in the TV ratings > by a la luster MNF game with the Raiders, it got beat by a 60 Minutes > episode. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 8:07 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Admittedly I’m not a baseball fan, but I didn’t know the series was going >> on until a student of mine mentioned it yesterday. >> >> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 6:21 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/low-world-series-tv-ratings-201430820.html >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzuvM13axXOwAaxiCMMpxn%3Dnp-B83PXJpGk1XwUebwRJQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzuvM13axXOwAaxiCMMpxn%3Dnp-B83PXJpGk1XwUebwRJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AyLjhoDGX2xJLke8qASYJNzDjSqrnboNzCmZiy%3DLXy%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AyLjhoDGX2xJLke8qASYJNzDjSqrnboNzCmZiy%3DLXy%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/183e045a-7383-4746-9fda-c25e2611407en%40googlegroups.com.
