Baseball kinda rules, nice to see it’s doing well. Watching Blessed Heroic Venezuela beat Cursed Satanic USA in the world baseball classic was an all-time great moment.
Did the NBA ever overtake MLB in terms of revenue and viewership? I thought MLB was the second largest sports league in the world.
I don’t know about the actual numbers but there was talk several years ago that baseball was becoming a “regional sport” whereas the NFL and NBA were “national sports” where people watched more games than just their home team on their regional sports network. The reduction in game times and other rule changes seem to have reversed the trend in certain ways. The NBA still makes almost double the revenue of baseball on a per-game basis.
I usually root against dynastic champions, but the Dodgers have been must see TV for the last two years. Game 7 of last year’s World Series was the greatest playoff game I have ever seen in any sport. And it is fun witnessing a once in a lifetime talent like Ohtani breaking all sorts of century-old records.
The constant betting ads have really turned me off from watching most sports. It has been especially hard to watch my NBA team the last few years because of tanking.
Seeing the MLB change its rules to appeal to a wider audience has been interesting. Things like the pitch clock and ABS system have certainly made for a more streamlined game, but a lot of die-hard baseball fans that I know don’t like them because they see it as sanding down a sport that they fell in love with for being slower and having esoteric, unwritten rules (laudatory).
Nothing beats watching a baseball game in person on a summer evening though.
can not tolerate watching baseball if they put the stupid pitch clock on the screen. constant stress from seeing the timer
