Baseball Isn’t Boring, YOU’RE Boring

reverend1 said:
I might be boring, but so is baseball.

In all seriousness though, I am starting to think baseball is a regional sport. I know exactly one person who enjoys baseball, and he's from Chicago. He tries to talk baseball at the gym and gets no takers. There is never baseball on tv in bars here, and if you turn it on you more than likely will get yelled at.

The last time I went to a game I was invited to a business associates suite. It was full of people, and everyone mingled and consumed adult beverages inside. Not one person paid any attention to the game to the point that the attendant had to tell us that the game had ended.

All that being said, when I am on the east coast baseball seems to be very popular.
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Baseball is super popular here, but these same people think the Bengals are going to win it all every year. Fuck Cinci.
 
"He's not wrong." That article was idiotic. Incredibly bad writing.

"I’ve been to several major league games. Almost nobody was actually watching the game, they just showed up to socialize and network, and they left early."

Bcos New York, not bcos Baseball.

Joe Buck haters: I used to dream of trading him to ISIL for three journalists and a middle reliever, but since I read this heartwarming tale of his battle against hair plug addiction (and you thought I was joking!), I just can't get the hate going. Addicted to hair plugs. And here I thought my midget-porn-and-bath-salts 'issue' was sad.
 
I like baseball, but only after the hockey season has ended. After that, I will watch the Giants and MLS soccer (specifically, Earthquakes.)

I will watch at least parts of an NFL game if the Packers are playing and I'm in the mood, but can rarely sit still for an entire NFL game. The only times I've watched basketball are when the Bulls were great and now the Warriors, and then only during the playoffs. The last two minutes of a basketball game last longer than any baseball game ever played...
 
Another thing that pisses me off,no baseball on regular network channels. Fucking money grab.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
Buck has gotten a lot better, almost listenable, since Tim McCarver was removed from his side.
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I don't really watch baseball anymore, but losing Tim McCarver can only be a good thing. That guy was such a fucking dolt. I swear one time I heard him say something to the effect of, "What the Red Sox need to do here is try and score more runs than the (whatever other team it was)." Well golly gee, Tim! That's a fine idea!
 
DFB said:
Another thing that pisses me off,no baseball on regular network channels. Fucking money grab.
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Whatsamatter? Can't get it on your fucking rabbit ears? Try holding them while wearing an aluminum foil hat and you should be able to pick up the games, as well as the White House back channel...
 
bsman said:
Whatsamatter? Can't get it on your fucking rabbit ears? Try holding them while wearing an aluminum foil hat and you should be able to pick up the games, as well as the White House back channel...
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It doesn't work. Maybe the wrong foil thickness.
 
DFB said:
Another thing that pisses me off,no baseball on regular network channels. Fucking money grab.
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Money grab, or regular season baseball doesn't really work for regular network channels so they don't want it? I mean with the NFL, most of the games are on Sunday at either 1 or 4 EST. Scheduling is easy and you can usually get a regional game on at both of those times. The odd games (Monday night and Thursday night) are on ESPN and the NFL network, not regular network TV. I am relatively new to MLB, but it seems to me, games are on at different times and days, (sometime weekday afternoon) so I could see it being difficult to get it in a regularly scheduled rotation on TV. I'm not sure it gets the ratings day in and day out as the NFL does and maybe the networks don't want to deal with it because of it. I don't see the NBA or NHL regularly on regular network tv either. I wish it was on regular TV. I don't have MASN, the network that broadcasts Nats games, so I only get to listen on the radio.
 
Not that I would do such a thing, but I hear that every single sports game ever has multiple live streams easily found on the web.

 
Danhedonia said:
Not that I would do such a thing, but I hear that every single sports game ever has multiple live streams easily found on the web.
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So baseball made this deal with both FOX and NBC to stream games in-market. You can stream out of market on MLB.tv, but not in-market. Some teams are on Fox networks and some are on NBC networks. So depending on your team depends on where you stream from. The Mets are an NBC team. So I tried to stream the game last night. The big stipulation is that you have to subscribe to cable, and get the sports network the team's games are broadcast on, to get the stream. I downloaded the NBC Sports app, entered my information, and got an error message that the game was blacked out. :facepalm:
 
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