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Post by WarrenPeace on Dec 5, 2019 20:29:48 GMT
Not every football game sells out but it looks like there are more fans who will show up and cheer on their losing football team vs baseball teams.
I know that baseball is not as exciting but why would fans of a losing football team even bother showing up where it looks a lot more full?
What is the mentality of a football vs a baseball fan?
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 5, 2019 20:33:27 GMT
81 games at home for MLB.
i.e. there's more of an opportunity to go as opposed to 8.
A lot of people find baseball boring - and going to see a dud team going nowhere on a cold spring or fall night during the school year may be out of the question on a Tuesday night or so when you've got to get up for work the next day anyway.
personally i'd rather go to a Phillies game than an Eagles game.
I find baseball relaxing - and CBP was a electric from 2007-2011 - a giant party.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 5, 2019 20:55:20 GMT
Not every football game sells out but it looks like there are more fans who will show up and cheer on their losing football team vs baseball teams. I know that baseball is not as exciting but why would fans of a losing football team even bother showing up where it looks a lot more full? What is the mentality of a football vs a baseball fan? Like Frogs said, supply and demand, plus the inherent drama of one game per week per team. There’s build-up, endless analysis, violence. I love baseball but how many games does one need to attend per year, especially if your team isn’t contending? |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Dec 5, 2019 21:03:09 GMT
81 games at home for MLB. i.e. there's more of an opportunity to go as opposed to 8. A lot of people find baseball boring - and going to see a dud team going nowhere on a cold spring or fall night during the school year may be out of the question on a Tuesday night or so when you've got to get up for work the next day anyway. personally i'd rather go to a Phillies game than an Eagles game. I find baseball relaxing - and CBP was a electric from 2007-2011 - a giant party. I appreciate that insight and it makes sense. Let me ask you this: Do you think that a state that has only a college team and no pro teams, say Nebraska, may also have an effect on the attendance for a college game?
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Post by WarrenPeace on Dec 5, 2019 21:05:35 GMT
Not every football game sells out but it looks like there are more fans who will show up and cheer on their losing football team vs baseball teams. I know that baseball is not as exciting but why would fans of a losing football team even bother showing up where it looks a lot more full? What is the mentality of a football vs a baseball fan? Like Frogs said, supply and demand, plus the inherent drama of one game per week per team. There’s build-up, endless analysis, violence. I love baseball but how many games does one need to attend per year, especially if your team isn’t contending? In baseball it ain't over till it's over though it could be over by the 6th inning if your team is down by 12 runs or more. In football any given Sunday and it might give you an exciting last second Hail Mary play.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 5, 2019 21:06:10 GMT
81 games at home for MLB. i.e. there's more of an opportunity to go as opposed to 8. A lot of people find baseball boring - and going to see a dud team going nowhere on a cold spring or fall night during the school year may be out of the question on a Tuesday night or so when you've got to get up for work the next day anyway. personally i'd rather go to a Phillies game than an Eagles game. I find baseball relaxing - and CBP was a electric from 2007-2011 - a giant party. I appreciate that insight and it makes sense. Let me ask you this: Do you think that a state that has only a college team and no pro teams, say Nebraska, may also have an effect on the attendance for a college game? absolutely. if it's the only show in town - people are going to flock to it (or should if it's a passionate sports area).
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Post by WarrenPeace on Dec 5, 2019 21:09:46 GMT
I appreciate that insight and it makes sense. Let me ask you this: Do you think that a state that has only a college team and no pro teams, say Nebraska, may also have an effect on the attendance for a college game? absolutely. if it's the only show in town - people are going to flock to it (or should if it's a passionate sports area). Cool. Yeah, I'm going to guess that if the area has a pro sports team, the college one may have more alumni. If there is no pro team nearby then it may attract football fans who didn't go to the school but love football.
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Post by Geddy on Dec 5, 2019 21:12:15 GMT
Not every football game sells out but it looks like there are more fans who will show up and cheer on their losing football team vs baseball teams. I know that baseball is not as exciting but why would fans of a losing football team even bother showing up where it looks a lot more full? What is the mentality of a football vs a baseball fan? Optical illusion my friend as football stadiums by and large are bigger than baseball ones so youll almost always see more. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 5, 2019 21:47:34 GMT
A 162 match season is insanity.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 5, 2019 21:52:32 GMT
A 162 match season is insanity. Here's the kicker. A team in each league gets eliminated in a 1 game playoff too - after playing 162 games - it comes down to 1 game for them 
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Post by bluerisk on Dec 5, 2019 21:55:34 GMT
Fucking expensive.
250 bucks allowed me a front seat in a NFL game (MetLife), but not so the Yankee game.
I guess I do not need to mention that the front seats were pretty much empty.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Dec 5, 2019 22:20:01 GMT
A 162 match season is insanity. A 162 match season is insanity. Here's the kicker. A team in each league gets eliminated in a 1 game playoff too - after playing 162 games - it comes down to 1 game for them I agree with you guys. To be sitting there day after day after day after week after week and all those months watching a three hour game only to then watch them blow it at not making it all the way to the championship. Baseball is one of, if not the, most time wasting sport to watch in all sports. Watching my football team once a week, I can handle. My baseball team every day? Forget it. And my baseball team? The Milwaukee Losers aka Brewers. Forget it. Those fuckers had their one and only chance in the WS only to lose it. They won't make it back in my lifetime.
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Post by orlandogardner on Dec 5, 2019 22:51:19 GMT
Not every football game sells out but it looks like there are more fans who will show up and cheer on their losing football team vs baseball teams. I know that baseball is not as exciting but why would fans of a losing football team even bother showing up where it looks a lot more full? What is the mentality of a football vs a baseball fan? I'm not tryna promote the overtly (and of course ignorant) nationalistic view that one country's national sports are less/more exciting than another but there is a case that Baseball (especially live Baseball) must be in with a chance of being the most dull elite sport out there. To me it's no wonder there are empty seats, especially with the amount of games they play.
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Post by sdm3 on Dec 5, 2019 22:59:08 GMT
Baseball is dying because it used to be the #1 sport in the country, but now football is #1. Therefore, fewer people like baseball today than 40 years ago. Just ask jimanchower.
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Dec 5, 2019 23:11:52 GMT
MLB season is bloated and the market is flooded. There are simply too many games. Watching your team play an average of 6 games a week for 5 months can be tedious. Especially sitting there in freezing dank cold or swamp ass heat of summer watching some slob foul away for 5 minutes straight. It's not must see TV. Basketball has a similar problem. Why bother watching the regular season when a team only needs to maintain a body temperature in the 90's to be eligible for the post season playoffs?
Getting back to Baseball, having most of the games taking place during the work week isn't very convenient.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Dec 5, 2019 23:22:17 GMT
Baseball is dying because it used to be the #1 sport in the country, but now football is #1. Therefore, fewer people like baseball today than 40 years ago. Just ask jimanchower. I think I have PTSD from arguing with him about this.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 6, 2019 0:31:58 GMT
Blue Jays do not bad at the box office & yet are a major tv draw nearly all season long. Ppl are still fans of baseball, it's just inconvenient financially & time to make a night/day to actually go live.
Personally, I like the upper deck cheap seats, so knocking a few brews back isn't as painful an experience.
I'm actually shocked NFL stadiums are still mostly full. With timeouts, tv timeouts, & all the rest, sitting outside Sept-Jan for what the NFL charges cannot be that fantastic.
Not when the league is so locked in for ideal tv experience.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 6, 2019 0:40:21 GMT
Baseball is dying because it used to be the #1 sport in the country, but now football is #1. Therefore, fewer people like baseball today than 40 years ago. Just ask jimanchower. I think I have PTSD from arguing with him about this. I think chowderhead got nuked. Kept fucking with Admin
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Post by hi224 on Dec 6, 2019 0:51:35 GMT
I prefer Basketball.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Dec 6, 2019 1:38:26 GMT
People are gingerly dancing around the real answer, which is that baseball has by far the oldest fan base.
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