2006 World Series: Detroit vs. St. Louis

[Guest patona314]

SteveJRogers wrote: Tommy Lasorda be damned!

lasorda is funny. like abbot and costello funny.

[Guest Edgy DC]

SteveJRogers wrote: Watch that sarcasm meter Edgy! You know I mean half way through a season or thereabouts. In baseball, its June/July In hockey and basketball its in February.

I follow baseball to the end. So do a lot of people, as evidenced by the thread you're posting in.

If not enough do to get the sport better TV ratings, I don't care.

[MFS62]

From Gammons' blog...

Some baseball and media officials groused when the Cardinals opened the gates in the eighth inning and allowed thousands of fans to come in off the street to see the Cardinals -- those Cardinals most of their grandparents loved -- win. Two years earlier, in the fourth (and final) game of the 2004 series, that same management opened the gates at the old Busch Stadium so more than a thousand Red Sox fans could finally see their team win the World Series.

That's a franchise that respects the game, not just their own fans.
Kinda' cool.

Later

[metirish]

Where did the thousands of fans sit/stand....it's cool and all but I imagine it would have some safety issues

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Edgy - "I follow baseball to the end. So do a lot of people, as evidenced by the thread you're posting in.

If not enough do to get the sport better TV ratings, I don't care."

Unfortunately, we comprise the minority. Hence, the declining viewership of the World Series. It is a shame that so many have fallen away from the great game that is baseball.

[metirish]

It's not just baseball and not just over here, in England the Premiership attendence is down, only a few teams sell out,rating on SKY TV are down,in Italy attendence has hit an all time low,this after they won the World Cup,I think people just have more to choose from these days.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And I've become part of the majority that bails before the end. Fifteen years ago I never would have predicted that I wouldn't be a World Series watcher, but it's the legacy of 1994.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I have a few friends that have basically bailed on baseball altogether for the same reason Yancy.

[stevejrogers]

="Edgy DC"] ="SteveJRogers"]Watch that sarcasm meter Edgy! You know I mean half way through a season or thereabouts. In baseball, its June/July In hockey and basketball its in February. I follow baseball to the end. So do a lot of people, as evidenced by the thread you're posting in. If not enough do to get the sport better TV ratings, I don't care.

Like Kevin Bacon in Animal House huh? "All is Well!"

[Guest Edgy DC]

No.

[Guest patona314]

uh guys... it's over and NYG are 13 point favorites this week.

[Frayed Knot]

]England the Premiership attendence is down, only a few teams sell out, rating on SKY TV are down, in Italy attendence has hit an all time low

Except that baseball attendance is at an all-time high, both major league and in the minors.
WS TV ratings are down for any one of a number of reasons, but uniquely so in baseball because so much of the viewing is focused on the in-season local games. It never has been the nationwide/network kind of ratings-buster that football is, but that's also not the source from where they derive the main part of their income.
I just read where MLB revenues are up over 50% from just 4 years ago. So let's hold off on the funeral procession, OK?