*****Official 2010 World Series Thread*****

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Would prefer to see the Phillies as the other team in the WS as the travel days to SF would really stretch this thing out.

Besides, the Rangers and Phillies can both mash, and if the Rangers win, Jerruh Jones will poop himself..more than usual..and that is a good thing.

 

AZ..you gettin' kinda hyped over this WS?

 

Alrighty. Let's go Giants. Take care of business.

 

fox must be mad. two years ago they had the lowest watched world series when it was philly vs tampa. anyone think this might be even less watched then that one?

 

Well, Texas is a huge market and Philly is as well.

I'd think by now there are some bandwagon Philly fans who don't like the Yankees and the Mets are just a bad team.

 

I'm going Rangers in this thing. Not much of a baseball fan till NLCS and WS.

Great thread!
Plus watching two bouncing Csonka heads on the screen at once is helping my buzz.

 

No way this will be less watched. The Phillies have generally drawn good ratings so far. Dallas is a big market and the Cowboys suck so... SF isn't too shabby of a market either.

 

Holy crap! Chase Utley appears to have grown a tumor the shape, texture and coloration of a baseball on his back!

 

Josh Hamilton is a fascinating story, one of the best sports stories in the last decade.

 

well considering he did own them, yes, it will be bush league ball

let us see what the experts say

The Yankees have been eliminated from World Series contention, and the Fall ratings prospects for Fox just took a tumble. Fox is already down 12% vs. last season in their adults 18-49 ratings and as Robert noted, they face likely further year to year ratings declines now with the World Series almost certain to be down year to year.

In the 21st century for World Series average viewership to break 20 million, it requires the Yankees or the Red Sox. Although in 2000 & 2009, even the Yankees couldn’t average over 20 million.

Last season, the Yankees / Phillies World Series viewership was up sharply from the rain plagued 2008 series between the Rays and the Phillies across the board in all ratings demographics +38% among M18-34 (6.5 vs. 4.7), +37% on M18-49 (7.8 vs. 5.7), +32% in M25-54 (8.7 vs. 6.6), +46% in A18-34 (5.4 vs. 3.7), +41% in A18-49(6.2 vs. 4.4), and +36% in A25-54 (6.8 vs. 5.0). It was the largest year to year household ratings % increase in history.

I don’t think the NL opponent makes much difference at all to ratings this year. At this point, all Fox can hope for to salvage its ratings is a long series. That both typically boosts viewership in the later games, and adds more multi-hour highly rated games to their ratings averages. A seven game series without the Yankees is likely worth more to ratings than a four game series with the Yankees, but this season the latter is no longer an option.

We’ll have a “guess the World Series ratings/ viewership” post once the NLCS is over.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/10/2...world-series-ratings-hopes-go-with-them/69318

 

Not at all AZ at least not for me, when the Yankees are in the WS they have 18 rating points, or about a NBA finals game, when they are not, they wind up around 10 Nelson Ratings points or less than a MNF game.

But to me, for the health of MLB teams like the Rangers and Rockies and Rays have to make it to the World Series just as a payoff for fans.

Look at places like Baltimore, that used to be a baseball town..it no longer is.

 

thats the key. even if they take a hit in the world series viewership, its needed for the health of the sport

 

do they have tv service in texas yet?

 

its amazing that world series were getting 40 million thirty years ago and now they can barely break 20 million. i mean even the worst world series game is better then anything else on tv (except for football)

 

just havin fun with ya. rangers are a fun team to watch

 

Exactly, imho they should even add a second WildCard to the playoff format.

As for less important of a WS..I will say this:

I find it odd that when I look on youtube for MLB highlights of Tony Gwynn or Pete Rose...there is nothing to be found..to me that is not good as a general health of the sport barometer.

 

I don't get why people care so much about ratings. IMO, I like seeing different teams there. And as long as it's a damn good series, ratings are meaningless to me.

 

Sorry...I meant fans...

 

might want to look for one of those gadgets i heard about. radio i believe they called it

 

Well, that is a chicken or egg type of deal AZ, I do think MLB maybe over expanded and that is why even great teams like the Rays have problems drawing fans to the stadium let along on the Tube.

One thing I think is lacking in MLB is just that toughness that used to mark the sport, I used to love to hate Pete Rose, or Jeff Leonard, or the Dodgers.

 

Hmm, the milkman delivers out past the Sphinx?

 

i do miss the brush back pitches, the barrelling into the second baseman to break up a double play, the bench clearing brawls. really would like to see every sport lose about 6 or 8 franchises. can you imagine how much better football, baseball, basketball and hockey would be if you eliminated 25% of the worst players. you would get back to having several super teams in every sport every year