Boobs, uh, tinkle, uh, Howard Cosell--oh sorry, wrong game. Mark Jeffries [email protected]
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:32 AM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>> >> 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/183e045a-7383-4746-9fda-c25e2611407en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/183e045a-7383-4746-9fda-c25e2611407en%40googlegroups.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-SgeSToQkavvA3CJBCGaGhye-YPn1d3ReA5-J-KQcUug%40mail.gmail.com.
