MLB: Manny Machado Watch - UPDATE - Pads in Lead!

MLB: Manny Machado Watch - UPDATE - Pads in Lead! Jan 19, 2019 18:41:31 GMT nutsberryfarm 🏜 likes this

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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 19, 2019 18:41:31 GMT

Jan 19, 2019 18:18:10 GMT @screamingtreefrogs said:

Jan 19, 2019 18:00:06 GMT TheGoodMan19 said:

The owners are the ones who will throw tomatoes. Think they would be on board with cutting half of their games? Half of their home dates? Half of the local TV revenue (which is enormous)? Just because fans don't have the attention span? Would you if you owned a team?

Financially, baseball is in the best shape ever. The local TV deals, MLB Extra innings and merchandise printing money for the game. The real danger is having the game itself become irrelevant. Making some star a hip image would help a lot.

Look at the flip side of that argument thought which I find intriguing beyond belief.

Condense the season.

Games more meaningfull

Think TV rating wouldn't spike or attendance figures skyrocket?

as opposed to empty stadiums in April and May before schools let out?

empty stadiums in September when a club knows (and their fanbase too) they're out of it?

what was '94 the strike season when it was kind of exciting? same happened with the NHL year ago

you go 82 or so games - 5% of me can almost stomach a 1 game WC playoff - 162 games? what planet do I live on where people support this horseshit. luckily the phils have never been involved and I feel for those fanbases that booted. even feel for yanks and bosox fans involved in this nonsense. i'll never forget - think it was like in 2011 when the Phils got ousted in the playoffs after winning 100 games - may have been 2010 - sh*t - at least they weren't given just one chance to make it to the next round.

It's like telling a bar/club owner "You would get more energetic crowds if you closed Friday and opened Saturday. People might be tired of the place if you were opened both nights. Is a more lively crowd worth halving your income stream." No one is going to cut potential money making dates out of a schedule. A ballpark with 1000 people in attendance makes more money that a ballpark that's closed.

Only way to shorten a season is a return to the Sunday Double headers. Charge extra, have every Sunday "two fers" and you condense the season. But the players piss themselves at the mere thought of a scheduled doubleheader. And you come back to the fact that the average American has the attention span of a flea.