Ebay Memoriabillia, gotta love the NYCers

[stevejrogers]

You know, for all the knock MLB gets for its raitings when the New York teams are in any postseason series, it belies how much the NY teams are in demand on the memorabillia and merchandise market

Great example. I'm searching ebay for Minnesota and San Diego DS programs and have yet to find any, despite two games allready played in Twinkie Town and one game in San Diego.

Before the games even STARTED I found about 5 different items of either the Yankee or Met program (Yankee Magazine can be gotten through the mail, although I've been waiting a few years now for my October issue (collector of NYC baseball items) )

Demand is there, I guess people just don't want to watch, either that or the demand is mostly from Yankee and Met fans throughout the country (and the world)

[metsmarathon]

the flip side is that maybe the demand is so great in those other cities that the fans actually keep their merchandise instead of flipping it for a quick buck.

[Guest KC]

I don't understand your last sentence, especially the people don't want to
watch part. Watch what?

I took a look on ebay and the first NLDS program was being hawked by a
memorabilia company, someone bought twenty of 'em prolly and is trying
to make some money.

OE: oh, and you SUBSCRIBE TO YANKEE MAGAZINE VIA MAIL?????

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Break out the pitchforks and torches!

[Gwreck]

He wanted to go to the Yankees so he could "see some baseball this week."

He's said in the past that he has "regular seats" at Yankee stadium.

He subscribes to Yankee Magazine through the mail.

Three strikes and you're out buddy.

[stevejrogers]

KC wrote: I don't understand your last sentence, especially the people don't want to watch part. Watch what?

Lowest rated WS EVER was the 2000 one. Ergo no one in the country wants the Mets and Yanks to be in the World Series.

[nymr83]

a Cubs/White Sox WS would get lower ratings too and a Dodgers/Angels one would be there as well. when you are only drawing one media market instead of two you are bound to have bad ratings.

FOX is salivating over the thought of Yankees/Dodgers.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's pure math.

The two Toronto World Series wins had low ratings too, because millions of Canadian viewers weren't counted.

[stevejrogers]

Nymr83 wrote: a Cubs/White Sox WS would get lower ratings too and a Dodgers/Angels one would be there as well. when you are only drawing one media market instead of two you are bound to have bad ratings.

Yeah but you could tell there was a national sense of apathy and loathing on the part of many towards that WS. I mean Time even had someone write a column about how much he couldn't care less about the Series. (which makes some dopey caller even more dopey who thought MLB should make it a baseball hoilday the day the Mets and Yanks had that "Two Stadiums One Day" DH that summer)

It says more about how baseball really has become a provincial sport as well. Your city is no longer playing, you don't watch.

Its not that way with football

Not to have that "baseball is dying" debate again, but baseball really hasn't been the "national game" in quite a long, long, long time

[stevejrogers]

metsmarathon wrote: the flip side is that maybe the demand is so great in those other cities that the fans actually keep their merchandise instead of flipping it for a quick buck.

Eh, not really. No cache really nationally for anything other than the major markets and the Northeast (Boston, Baltimore, ect) in terms of that sort of stuff.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, none of this is new. We have (a) the agreement that gives the established teams in the major markets exclusive rights to those markets in perpetuity, and ( the lack of sharing of broadcast revenue that has further marginalized the teams from the smaller markets.

Personally, I'm apathetic toward the apathy.