It’s the media coverage man I didn’t even know the World Series was even over lmao but the minute Mahomes throws a touchdown I get a notification sent to my phone against my will 😂 The way the media was hyping Deion Sanders & Colorado vs their coverage of the MLB playoffs shows you everything you need to know about the media & how they play favorites
Exactly over the last 15 years media hardly covers baseball anymore.. up until the mid 2000s espn talked about baseball and especially playoff baseball all the time now they really don’t at all and also it’s cause they are all based in the northeast so if a northeast team doesn’t make it it’s like a concerted effort on their part to not talk about it so they can talk about how the ratings are low
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
Viewership is concerning however, baseball has become more of a niche sport, regional based. But to be honest, ratings are down for almost all sports except for the Super Bowl, maybe. The attention span of an adult or young person has changed rapidly over the last 20 years. Too many streaming shows on. Too many distractions. The world is chaotic and so is America. And let’s not forget players change teams so often you can’t build familiarity with anyone anymore. This is the same reason why ratings are low in the NBA games outside of the players just don’t feel like playing anymore apparently.
i guarantee there are no nfl games that the viewership has declined. no one watches the nba bc all they care about is black power. the mlb is just boring so they have no chance at increasing viewership
its not about media though. MLB has too better market the product! We all love this game but alot of us once Other sports start we aren't gonna fully invest in MLB-only
You got your best player rotting on an irrelevant franchise in Mike Trout. How many non-MLB fans have even heard of Mike Trout? This is one of the main problems in a very crowded entertainment market.
Also Broussard saying about the best teams not in it. For more than half the season the rangers were one of the best records in baseball and in first place in division all year but then dealt with a ton of injuries and then went into a slump for a while because of it and still won 90 games
And had a pen that blew more games than saves and still won 90 games. If they have an average pen in tje regular season they probably enter the postseason with the best record in baseball. They played their best when it counted and it showed.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team. Broussard doesnt know anything about baseball lol.
Many ignorant fools on the East Coast complained the 2023 matchup involved “small market” teams. Dallas-Fort Worth is the 4th biggest market and Phoenix is the 10th. That’s not small.
I'm surprised no one mentioned how teams like the A's who have a fantastic fan base but the owners drag the team with zero funds or upgrades for decades. These organizations doesn't care about the fans. It's only about the MLB catering to these toddler owners trying to one-up each other in the stadium department. Why should fans care if their teams don't care back?
Viewership is down because baseball fans on the east coast are not going to be willing to stay up late to watch a world series that involves essentially two west coast teams like the rangers and Diamondbacks. It may be good for baseball but speaking for myself, I'm not going to stay up to watch a team other my favorite team.
I think there needs to be more context added here. The ratings may have been lower, but they actually had the most watched viewership during that time slot when the World Series was on. Meaning, it was the most watched show above everything else that was on T.V. at that time. We'll never get back to those glory days of what the ratings used to be because nowadays there are more channels and app options for people to watch than what we used to have back in the 80s and 90s. Anyway, love the show and dialog Chris and Rob.
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
A World Series championship in the the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most populated metro area in the US means potential for a lot of new fans.
Low viewership is due to horrible promotion. Think about this for a second, the World Series was on Fox/FS1. They barely talked about it on FS1 if ever. How you gonna have the World Series on your network but not even talk about it? Also, Texas Rangers aren’t in a small market 😂
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
I’ll be honest, I just found myself not really caring about the teams. I’m happy for Rangers fans, but it’s just a hard team to care about. And the Diamondbacks are another team that I just don’t care about.
My orioles got swept by the eventual champs. So i checked out after that. Football and basketball to me (im from baltimore) are the only sports both pro and college that i can watch random teams in playoffs. In baseball im out early and hockey, although it has a great postseason, i catch myself being the only one watching it. I can sense the uninterestedness in the room😂😂😂
The biggest problem is our kids are not playing youth baseball in large numbers anymore since soccer came about in the 1970's. Baseball is not an easy sport and takes a lot of practice and a certain amount of natural talent to succeed compared to soccer at a young age.Todays youth have too many distractions vying for their attention and can't focus 10 minutes much less 3 hours on a baseball game. Too me if you dont grow up playing a sport and developing a love and appreciation for it you wont have much interest as an adult. Just like here in the south, we didn't grow up playing hocky so not much interest in it outside of the north and northeast . I was a kid in the 70's and grew up playing sandlot baseball and football until it was dark. We didn't have video games, computers, unlimited streaming choices,cell phones ect....vying for our attention.
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
Sandlot baseball - hell yes so did we. Our favorite thing to do in the summer is get friends together and play pick up baseball for hours. I cannot remember the last time I saw kids gathered in a field or lot playing baseball or football. It’s tragic
Sport's talk shows on ESPN and FS1 never talk about Baseball anymore. Same thing with the NHL. I'm watching more of the soccer leagues in Europe over MLB, NHL, and NBA.
In this social media age with so many distractions hell I find myself scrolling away on my phone oftentimes during an NFL game, nobody is watching baseball. It's to slow and boring.
A big reason is you have to watch the mlb network to get baseball coverage or news. All the sports media don’t cover baseball. Like at all. I’m not saying it’s the reason why but it’s definitely part of it. I watched the World Series and every playoff game and I’m a dodgers fan. But for a casual you wouldn’t even know it was on cuz nobody mentions it
As far as the 07 nba finals the low ratings didn’t have anything to do with people not being hyped about lebron and him overcoming the pistons it’s just that everyone knew it was one of the most mismatched finals ever. It was tough to get excited about it cus it was all lebron putting his team on his back and this juggernaut that was the Spurs. Everyone took 1 look at that and thought yea this won’t be close Cleveland will be lucky to get 1 game. It’s just not fun to watch for people when it isn’t competitive. It has nothing to do with Cleveland and San Antonio not being huge markets. People would’ve definitely tuned in if it was spurs vs pistons cus atleast it would’ve been super competitive
Nah man the 07 finals cavs vs Spurs did low viewership numbers because nobody liked watching the spurs style of play not because everyone knew they would blow LBJ cavs out. The 05 finals Pistons vs Spurs also had low views
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
There was a World Series? I wouldn't have known as there was so little media coverage of baseball during the season and the playoffs. Baseball has really fallen in popularity.
The lowest rating is kinda a BS stat because you know it’s just going off TV rating and not those who streamed it on MLB or on the websites legally and illegally. People came watch it more ways than just TV. As a podcast you’d think that would be pretty obvious reason.
To discredit the rangers by saying the best team didnt win is a joke, a 7 game series will always determine the best teams, doesn’t matter how many big names you have it how your team performs when it matters, there is no one hit wonder lucky teams that win one round because it win or go home, like in the nfl, braves were the best regular season team maybe but the best team is the rangers
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
They had the MLB playoffs on fox & FS1 same time as the WNBA playoffs were on abc, espn ….. the nfl games are Monday, Thursday, & Sunday, then you have college football ALL WEEK LONG, then you have NBA basketball being played on tnt on espn etc. The MLB sets themselves up for failure with this scheduling, regardless of how much somebody might love baseball it’s hard to choose to watch a baseball game vs a basketball or football game I’m sorry
i did not even watch 1 inning of this world series. I can't even name 1 player on the Dbacks. There're 2 small market team with NO rivalry. It's a yawn fest.
@@asiantrick24 Would you consider Boston a small market? Houston? The Bay Area? Dallas-Fort Worth ranks fifth in market size, above the cities I mentioned.
So according to you we should take away all "small market" teams, even though DFW has 8 million residents and that's not counting all other cities in Texas ( not including the Houston metro) that have lots of interest in the Texas Rangers. The problem is the East/West coast sports media bias against any team not from there. We are after all fly over country. Get used to the Rangers being good for a while 😂
If y’all want to see the best teams (which is what people want to see) in the WS it needs to go back to the Division Winners play each other. However this is better for baseball to create history with these smaller franchises.
viewership is irrelevant people only watch common names that they're used to (ala philly, houston, and the dodgers) and Texas and Arizona were dreadful 2 years ago
Not saying they should or they would, however, out here in South Korea their baseball games are incredibly popular and fun for the fans. I’m serious, even if you aren’t necessarily a baseball fan you would still have a great time here at a baseball game. The fans get into it and they change the rules up a bit to spice games up. I doubt the mlb would turn away from traditional baseball but maybe they can see what South Korea does and brainstorm? Idk I love the sport and just want people to like it again like when I was younger
For any other sport this would be good. Don’t you want new teams to win and achieve success to create fans in untapped locations? The problem is that baseball is dying and the only people watching are in New York and LA
Rangers spanked that ass! Lol as a Texan i loved it. We don't want to see Yankees. So what people outside of Texas didn't watch. We brought home a championship, and this is why we play. The Rangers got it done. No one else did.
Because baseball took to long to adapt. Regardless of the criticisms, the NBA has currently you can’t overlook their push to draw in younger generations to keep their popularity going. Same for the NFL The MLB have too many old heads stuck in their ways
Between the 2017 Astros players getting no punishment for cheating and teams like the Oakland A's having terrible ownership, self-sabotaging games and entire seasons, and wanting to move, yeah MLB is in real trouble. But not the owners pocket books.
People just don’t like baseball like I did in 60’s and 70’s. The NFL and NBA just blew past them and I don’t know if they’ll ever catch up. The black community really doesn’t care about it. One American black player on both teams.
I said nobody not from the west coast.. will not watch his game and I was mocked….it’s sad I still got love for baseball but nobody else I know watches it…sad 😢
I say go back to all day games for the WS. The ratings are never going to be great, tastes in sports have changed too much. At least with all day games the WS would feel a bit more like a special event, instead of just another sports show.
YALL are literally one of the reasons why viewership is down. Saying stuff like the best teams weren’t in etc etc. The rangers were top of the power rankings most of the first half until injuries etc. But YALL act all shocked when they get healthy and clicking as the playoffs start and dominate people. That’s literally what they did the first half when they were healthy. Y’all need to step up how y’all cover baseball teams inside of the 2 coasts. That’s the problem.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Has nothing to do with the teams in the world series, baseball as a whole is boring and they don't promote their star athletes to peak interest.... most of the best players can barely speak English
At least the Yankees aren’t winning every year what’s not to love. It’s more competitive now and you never know who will will year to year. The fact that it’s not so predictable is what’s fun and more importantly everyone has a shot.
This false narrative that small market teams having just as much of a chance will make the game better, and have more people interested is wrong. It’s been proven time and time again. People are more interested in really good teams, and they tune in to see them lose. Nobody cares about the Diamondbacks.
@@JM-qn3tf what do you mean nobody cares about the D’Backs? Their fans do! That’s what it’s about. If nobody cares about the D’Backs then take all teams out of the equation and make it a 5 team league. Cubs , Yankees , Dodgers, Cardinals and Red Sox.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Braves fans salty as f. I told them back in August just before the Rangers big losing streak that they werent better than Texas and they all jumped on me. None of them are talking now LOL
Smaller markets?? Dfw is huge… how is that a small market?? Milwaukee is a small market, Minnesota.. Dallas is more than twice the size of Atlanta and Baltimore, Dallas is even twice the size of Boston.. and so for Dfw metroplex? Forget about it, much bigger than that. Kinda dumb to say Dallas is a small market…
Mlb makes it very difficult to follow your team these days. I live hundreds of miles from the team i follow. The regional network is not available to get on tv here. If you get the mlb package to stream, they black you out. I watched my team, rarely missing a game on tv, I travelled to games when i could since 1990. Now I have to just trying and watch highlight streams. I know its business, but many fans are left out.
The Braves and Diamondbacks split this season 3-3. So head to head they were just as good as the Braves. The Orioles, the team with the best record in the AL, were 3-6 against the Rangers this season. They got swept by the Rangers in the playoffs. So the best teams were in the championship and the best team won the title. Find another reason viewership was down. I can guarantee more Ranger and Diamondback fans watched the WS. Compared to if their teams were not in the WS. Bcoz I for damn sure wouldn't have watched or cared if the Rangers weren't.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
If the Phillies played the rangers the ratings would have been normal. The rangers are a sleeping giant because they have a huge potential fan base that has dealt with mediocre teams for decades. Arizona doesn't have a huge following and barely made the playoffs.
Much like the nba…..seasons are way too long and there’s too many games. In both sports, no one starts watching until the post season and even then the ratings for the post season pales in comparison to a college football game
Crazy how they blame small markets when the audience isn’t savvy enough to understand it doesn’t matter where the team is from if you are watching a good product. NFL does it. NBA is obsessed with certain markets. Buck the trend ppl.
Yes. They need to let the team with the best record in each league get a bye to the League championship. Then the other two teams who won their division play eachother to get in to the league championship. Chop it back down to only six teams total in the playoffs. Your world series matches will be far better
These guys "lie" about everything for no logical/rational reasons = this was easily one of the most exciting playoffs EVER = the formula of "spending" on "names" clearly doesn't work, while smart GM's, are putting together teams that just produce "offence" consistently to "win" when they need to & that's what happened this season = TEX/ARZ were the only teams in the playoffs "scoring" more than everyone else
@@jayjayfrmstatefarm9363 they spent the 4th-most for "4" straight seasons & got NOWHERE fast = they finally spent their money on PLAYERS/GAMERS, who were HUNGRY = last time I checked, TEX played this way the entire season & their offence never let up
These two clearly didn't watch 1 Rangers game this season. They weren't battling with the Astros all season. They basically had a crazy 5 or 6 game lead on them and then went on a slump and let them gain to go back up 3 games and ended on another slump that let the Astros back in to win the Division. The Rangers are good. They could have won over 100 games without a dumb 10 and 5-game losing streak.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 straight playoffs wins ON THE ROAD that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
No one cares about these 2 teams. An Astro/Philly would have had triple the viewers of this world series. This was by far the worst world series ever. Absolutely no excitement,no drama,no great players. Just an awful WS. Maybe the worst championship final in sports history.
I'm going to go straight to the point the state of Texas who has a lot of power and these United States basically paid MLB to win the world series but MLB will see that their ratings was down so they won't do that next year just like the White Sox in 2005 I can go back a couple of other teams but I don't feel like digging right now all sports is corrupted
The world series would have been fine if it went to a game 6 or 7. Baseball has a brighter future than the NFL and NBA. The NFL is a joke with gambling, 17 games, Thursday games, and Taylor Swift desperation. Once Lebron retires, the story of the NBA that started in the 1980s is over. It'll never be like it used to be.
Just my opinion is baseball is just not very exciting, especially in the playoffs which is the opposite for other sports and by that I mean a coach will take out a pitcher to pitch to one batter and then change pitchers again. Additionally, a game can absolutely be over so fast in baseball that it’s not worth paying attention by the 8th 9th inning because if you have 6th-9th hitters up their not that good so the best guys don’t even get to hit.
It’s the media coverage man I didn’t even know the World Series was even over lmao but the minute Mahomes throws a touchdown I get a notification sent to my phone against my will 😂
The way the media was hyping Deion Sanders & Colorado vs their coverage of the MLB playoffs shows you everything you need to know about the media & how they play favorites
Exactly over the last 15 years media hardly covers baseball anymore.. up until the mid 2000s espn talked about baseball and especially playoff baseball all the time now they really don’t at all and also it’s cause they are all based in the northeast so if a northeast team doesn’t make it it’s like a concerted effort on their part to not talk about it so they can talk about how the ratings are low
I didn’t know it was over either and I watched most of the games. Typically they wouldn’t announce it during other sports games but nothing lol smh!
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO
The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
Viewership is concerning however, baseball has become more of a niche sport, regional based. But to be honest, ratings are down for almost all sports except for the Super Bowl, maybe. The attention span of an adult or young person has changed rapidly over the last 20 years. Too many streaming shows on. Too many distractions. The world is chaotic and so is America. And let’s not forget players change teams so often you can’t build familiarity with anyone anymore. This is the same reason why ratings are low in the NBA games outside of the players just don’t feel like playing anymore apparently.
i guarantee there are no nfl games that the viewership has declined. no one watches the nba bc all they care about is black power. the mlb is just boring so they have no chance at increasing viewership
@@Hoodlum728I mean, we literally have ‘end racism’ end zones in a crap ton of NFL stadiums lol
Baseball is trash and boring
What's so bad about ending racism... Showing ur true colors
If it was "end world hunger" or " world peace " would u still be whining like a hog 😭
What’s concerning are the sports shows not talking about it and selling it to the public
its not about media though. MLB has too better market the product! We all love this game but alot of us once Other sports start we aren't gonna fully invest in MLB-only
You got your best player rotting on an irrelevant franchise in Mike Trout.
How many non-MLB fans have even heard of Mike Trout? This is one of the main problems in a very crowded entertainment market.
Also Broussard saying about the best teams not in it. For more than half the season the rangers were one of the best records in baseball and in first place in division all year but then dealt with a ton of injuries and then went into a slump for a while because of it and still won 90 games
And had a pen that blew more games than saves and still won 90 games. If they have an average pen in tje regular season they probably enter the postseason with the best record in baseball. They played their best when it counted and it showed.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team. Broussard doesnt know anything about baseball lol.
Many ignorant fools on the East Coast complained the 2023 matchup involved “small market” teams. Dallas-Fort Worth is the 4th biggest market and Phoenix is the 10th. That’s not small.
I'm surprised no one mentioned how teams like the A's who have a fantastic fan base but the owners drag the team with zero funds or upgrades for decades. These organizations doesn't care about the fans. It's only about the MLB catering to these toddler owners trying to one-up each other in the stadium department. Why should fans care if their teams don't care back?
100% agree
Viewership is down because baseball fans on the east coast are not going to be willing to stay up late to watch a world series that involves essentially two west coast teams like the rangers and Diamondbacks. It may be good for baseball but speaking for myself, I'm not going to stay up to watch a team other my favorite team.
I think there needs to be more context added here. The ratings may have been lower, but they actually had the most watched viewership during that time slot when the World Series was on. Meaning, it was the most watched show above everything else that was on T.V. at that time. We'll never get back to those glory days of what the ratings used to be because nowadays there are more channels and app options for people to watch than what we used to have back in the 80s and 90s. Anyway, love the show and dialog Chris and Rob.
Aw stop quit trying to be technical this is big news everywhere nobody watched
@@anthonytaylor7928LOL Sorry not sorry. Take care my friend.
Very good point
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO
The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
A World Series championship in the the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most populated metro area in the US means potential for a lot of new fans.
Don’t hold your breath
@@MrCopacetic23 Even during a bong hit?
Lol yeah ok keep dreaming that.
It’s not a small market team and that’s dumb to even suggest. By like 2050 Dallas is projected to be like the second biggest city in the states…
@@mitchellatkins7126 Lol NOT. Dallas will never pass Houston. Matter a fact more people live in San Antonio than they do in Dallas lol but continue
I had know idea the World Series was on it’s not many networks anymore that talks baseball
Low viewership is due to horrible promotion. Think about this for a second, the World Series was on Fox/FS1. They barely talked about it on FS1 if ever. How you gonna have the World Series on your network but not even talk about it?
Also, Texas Rangers aren’t in a small market 😂
I have argued this for years. Fox has had the World Series for years and they don’t talk about it. For me baseball’s has become regional/local sport.
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO
The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
“I don’t know why anyone would watch. They’re just playing for a piece of metal.”
- Rob Manfred
Viewership is “concerning”? Lol y’all didn’t even talk about the series the whole week
glad you through some hockey in there
At the end of the day fans of both rangers and Dback don't care about viewership! We want our teams in the big show!!
I’ll be honest, I just found myself not really caring about the teams. I’m happy for Rangers fans, but it’s just a hard team to care about. And the Diamondbacks are another team that I just don’t care about.
My orioles got swept by the eventual champs. So i checked out after that. Football and basketball to me (im from baltimore) are the only sports both pro and college that i can watch random teams in playoffs. In baseball im out early and hockey, although it has a great postseason, i catch myself being the only one watching it. I can sense the uninterestedness in the room😂😂😂
Everyone should have known Dbacks and Rangers were going to have very bad ratings. Pushing the WS to be when football starts isnt going to help
The biggest problem is our kids are not playing youth baseball in large numbers anymore since soccer came about in the 1970's. Baseball is not an easy sport and takes a lot of practice and a certain amount of natural talent to succeed compared to soccer at a young age.Todays youth have too many distractions vying for their attention and can't focus 10 minutes much less 3 hours on a baseball game. Too me if you dont grow up playing a sport and developing a love and appreciation for it you wont have much interest as an adult. Just like here in the south, we didn't grow up playing hocky so not much interest in it outside of the north and northeast . I was a kid in the 70's and grew up playing sandlot baseball and football until it was dark. We didn't have video games, computers, unlimited streaming choices,cell phones ect....vying for our attention.
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO
The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
Sandlot baseball - hell yes so did we. Our favorite thing to do in the summer is get friends together and play pick up baseball for hours. I cannot remember the last time I saw kids gathered in a field or lot playing baseball or football. It’s tragic
Thanks Chris/Rob. All I need to do is bet against your picks. No research needed.😆
Sport's talk shows on ESPN and FS1 never talk about Baseball anymore. Same thing with the NHL. I'm watching more of the soccer leagues in Europe over MLB, NHL, and NBA.
In this social media age with so many distractions hell I find myself scrolling away on my phone oftentimes during an NFL game, nobody is watching baseball. It's to slow and boring.
Just say you don’t have the attention span. It’s a 3 hour game. It’s shorter than an nfl game. Stop making some bullshit excuse.
A big reason is you have to watch the mlb network to get baseball coverage or news. All the sports media don’t cover baseball. Like at all. I’m not saying it’s the reason why but it’s definitely part of it. I watched the World Series and every playoff game and I’m a dodgers fan. But for a casual you wouldn’t even know it was on cuz nobody mentions it
As far as the 07 nba finals the low ratings didn’t have anything to do with people not being hyped about lebron and him overcoming the pistons it’s just that everyone knew it was one of the most mismatched finals ever. It was tough to get excited about it cus it was all lebron putting his team on his back and this juggernaut that was the Spurs. Everyone took 1 look at that and thought yea this won’t be close Cleveland will be lucky to get 1 game. It’s just not fun to watch for people when it isn’t competitive. It has nothing to do with Cleveland and San Antonio not being huge markets. People would’ve definitely tuned in if it was spurs vs pistons cus atleast it would’ve been super competitive
Nah man the 07 finals cavs vs Spurs did low viewership numbers because nobody liked watching the spurs style of play not because everyone knew they would blow LBJ cavs out. The 05 finals Pistons vs Spurs also had low views
The spurs were just biting
MlB pushed this BLM terrorist garbage on us and lost alot of viewers in 2020. ALOT. And in 2021 they took jobs away from black people in Atlanta by moving the allstargame from there to super white Denver. Their reasoning? Because asking people to prove they could vote was "racist". LMAO
The mlb has a radical leftist in charge problem, that is whats leading to the viewership issue.
There was a World Series? I wouldn't have known as there was so little media coverage of baseball during the season and the playoffs. Baseball has really fallen in popularity.
The lowest rating is kinda a BS stat because you know it’s just going off TV rating and not those who streamed it on MLB or on the websites legally and illegally. People came watch it more ways than just TV. As a podcast you’d think that would be pretty obvious reason.
And they dont mention the increases in in-game attendance that MLB has been having.
Agreed also if you look at the NBA Finals ratings compared to World Series it’s not that big of a gap.
Baseball is the new hockey...for certain fans & regions. And anyone in the playoffs could win.
It should be either 4 teams or 8 teams. The top 2 seeds lose their rhythm while the WC winners get the rhythm. No bye weeks, just either 4 or 8 teams
Baseball should start their regular season in November and have their world series in June
MLB doesn't market or promote their stars plain and simple u can tweak it all u want to
To discredit the rangers by saying the best team didnt win is a joke, a 7 game series will always determine the best teams, doesn’t matter how many big names you have it how your team performs when it matters, there is no one hit wonder lucky teams that win one round because it win or go home, like in the nfl, braves were the best regular season team maybe but the best team is the rangers
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
They had the MLB playoffs on fox & FS1 same time as the WNBA playoffs were on abc, espn ….. the nfl games are Monday, Thursday, & Sunday, then you have college football ALL WEEK LONG, then you have NBA basketball being played on tnt on espn etc.
The MLB sets themselves up for failure with this scheduling, regardless of how much somebody might love baseball it’s hard to choose to watch a baseball game vs a basketball or football game I’m sorry
Ratings were up big time during the regular season. The problem with the World Series is that you have two small markets that no one cares about.
There are almost 8 million people that live in the Dallas area. Dallas is not a small market.
@@Damianoutlaw He means not NY LA Chicago. Media markets don’t translate to population size.
i did not even watch 1 inning of this world series. I can't even name 1 player on the Dbacks. There're 2 small market team with NO rivalry. It's a yawn fest.
@@asiantrick24 Would you consider Boston a small market? Houston? The Bay Area? Dallas-Fort Worth ranks fifth in market size, above the cities I mentioned.
So according to you we should take away all "small market" teams, even though DFW has 8 million residents and that's not counting all other cities in Texas ( not including the Houston metro) that have lots of interest in the Texas Rangers. The problem is the East/West coast sports media bias against any team not from there. We are after all fly over country. Get used to the Rangers being good for a while 😂
If y’all want to see the best teams (which is what people want to see) in the WS it needs to go back to the Division Winners play each other. However this is better for baseball to create history with these smaller franchises.
viewership is irrelevant
people only watch common names that they're used to (ala philly, houston, and the dodgers) and Texas and Arizona were dreadful 2 years ago
truly outlier series that we just gotta accept
Not saying they should or they would, however, out here in South Korea their baseball games are incredibly popular and fun for the fans. I’m serious, even if you aren’t necessarily a baseball fan you would still have a great time here at a baseball game. The fans get into it and they change the rules up a bit to spice games up. I doubt the mlb would turn away from traditional baseball but maybe they can see what South Korea does and brainstorm? Idk I love the sport and just want people to like it again like when I was younger
For any other sport this would be good. Don’t you want new teams to win and achieve success to create fans in untapped locations? The problem is that baseball is dying and the only people watching are in New York and LA
Rangers spanked that ass! Lol as a Texan i loved it. We don't want to see Yankees. So what people outside of Texas didn't watch. We brought home a championship, and this is why we play. The Rangers got it done. No one else did.
Because baseball took to long to adapt. Regardless of the criticisms, the NBA has currently you can’t overlook their push to draw in younger generations to keep their popularity going. Same for the NFL
The MLB have too many old heads stuck in their ways
Between the 2017 Astros players getting no punishment for cheating and teams like the Oakland A's having terrible ownership, self-sabotaging games and entire seasons, and wanting to move, yeah MLB is in real trouble. But not the owners pocket books.
People complain about having the same teams competing every year. And then they complain when two new teams are in the World Series.
Next year will be Yankees vs Blue Jays
People just don’t like baseball like I did in 60’s and 70’s. The NFL and NBA just blew past them and I don’t know if they’ll ever catch up. The black community really doesn’t care about it. One American black player on both teams.
I said nobody not from the west coast.. will not watch his game and I was mocked….it’s sad I still got love for baseball but nobody else I know watches it…sad 😢
I say go back to all day games for the WS. The ratings are never going to be great, tastes in sports have changed too much. At least with all day games the WS would feel a bit more like a special event, instead of just another sports show.
YALL are literally one of the reasons why viewership is down. Saying stuff like the best teams weren’t in etc etc. The rangers were top of the power rankings most of the first half until injuries etc. But YALL act all shocked when they get healthy and clicking as the playoffs start and dominate people. That’s literally what they did the first half when they were healthy. Y’all need to step up how y’all cover baseball teams inside of the 2 coasts. That’s the problem.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Good job, rob, he does know his baseball But you need to work on your football and basketball😂😂😂💦
Has nothing to do with the teams in the world series, baseball as a whole is boring and they don't promote their star athletes to peak interest.... most of the best players can barely speak English
Stephen A. Is that you??
So true
At least the Yankees aren’t winning every year what’s not to love. It’s more competitive now and you never know who will will year to year. The fact that it’s not so predictable is what’s fun and more importantly everyone has a shot.
This false narrative that small market teams having just as much of a chance will make the game better, and have more people interested is wrong. It’s been proven time and time again. People are more interested in really good teams, and they tune in to see them lose. Nobody cares about the Diamondbacks.
@@JM-qn3tf what do you mean nobody cares about the D’Backs? Their fans do! That’s what it’s about.
If nobody cares about the D’Backs then take all teams out of the equation and make it a 5 team league.
Cubs , Yankees , Dodgers, Cardinals and Red Sox.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak that will never be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
But my Rangers was the best team for parts of the season!! And the best at the End!! And the best team did win!!
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Doesn't matter if 100miliion people watched it, the Rangers are still the Champs! The braves were at home watching on the couch!
Braves fans salty as f. I told them back in August just before the Rangers big losing streak that they werent better than Texas and they all jumped on me. None of them are talking now LOL
Who tf watches baseball
Everyone
Rating can go up if you got Atlanta vs Houston to n finals the top 2 in wins in National League and American League we gotta go back to the old days
This is why people think sports are rigged.
Football games are longer and more boring.
You crazy 😂
@@Mj-uz1ng 4 hours for 11 minutes of game action. These are facts not feelings.
There are no stars in baseball
It’s just not America’s pastime anymore. And hasn’t been for decades. Love the game but I get it.
Smaller markets?? Dfw is huge… how is that a small market?? Milwaukee is a small market, Minnesota.. Dallas is more than twice the size of Atlanta and Baltimore, Dallas is even twice the size of Boston.. and so for Dfw metroplex? Forget about it, much bigger than that. Kinda dumb to say Dallas is a small market…
“Often times the best team
Doesn’t win”
Then they aren’t the best team. Perhaps best team in an extended season but not in a series
I think next year
Yankees
Dodgers
Braves
Red Sox
Even the Phillies and rangers with the cowboys and eagles it would’ve been nice
Follow the NBA and rank teams in AL and NP by record and not who wins their division.
Mlb makes it very difficult to follow your team these days. I live hundreds of miles from the team i follow. The regional network is not available to get on tv here. If you get the mlb package to stream, they black you out. I watched my team, rarely missing a game on tv, I travelled to games when i could since 1990. Now I have to just trying and watch highlight streams. I know its business, but many fans are left out.
The Braves and Diamondbacks split this season 3-3. So head to head they were just as good as the Braves. The Orioles, the team with the best record in the AL, were 3-6 against the Rangers this season. They got swept by the Rangers in the playoffs. So the best teams were in the championship and the best team won the title. Find another reason viewership was down. I can guarantee more Ranger and Diamondback fans watched the WS. Compared to if their teams were not in the WS. Bcoz I for damn sure wouldn't have watched or cared if the Rangers weren't.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 win road playoff winning streak in 2023 that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
Long as the trophy stays in Texas. Go Stro’s
If the Phillies played the rangers the ratings would have been normal. The rangers are a sleeping giant because they have a huge potential fan base that has dealt with mediocre teams for decades. Arizona doesn't have a huge following and barely made the playoffs.
Much like the nba…..seasons are way too long and there’s too many games. In both sports, no one starts watching until the post season and even then the ratings for the post season pales in comparison to a college football game
Plenty people watch the nba regular season
It was the most boring world series in history
Game 1 2023 WS was the most exciting world series game since 2016 game 7 WS. Both 2023 LCS'S were AWESOME. This postseason was epic. Cry more.
Crazy how they blame small markets when the audience isn’t savvy enough to understand it doesn’t matter where the team is from if you are watching a good product. NFL does it. NBA is obsessed with certain markets. Buck the trend ppl.
Speeding up the game is why I don’t watch
Nobody wants to see the D'Backs vs Rangers. MLB playoff system is stupid.
Yes. They need to let the team with the best record in each league get a bye to the League championship. Then the other two teams who won their division play eachother to get in to the league championship. Chop it back down to only six teams total in the playoffs. Your world series matches will be far better
Best teams should have won! Don’t like it? Who gives a 💩
I didn't even know it was the world series till after like 4 games
Nobody watched spurs cavs cause anybody with a brain knew bron had no chance it was literally bron vs the spurs
Wow you guys really went out on a limb picking the braves to win the World Series. I’m shocked.
These guys "lie" about everything for no logical/rational reasons = this was easily one of the most exciting playoffs EVER = the formula of "spending" on "names" clearly doesn't work, while smart GM's, are putting together teams that just produce "offence" consistently to "win" when they need to & that's what happened this season = TEX/ARZ were the only teams in the playoffs "scoring" more than everyone else
“Spending on name clearly doesn’t work” 😂😂😂 I mean the Rangers only spent the most of any team over the last 2 off-season on new players
@@jayjayfrmstatefarm9363 they spent the 4th-most for "4" straight seasons & got NOWHERE fast = they finally spent their money on PLAYERS/GAMERS, who were HUNGRY = last time I checked, TEX played this way the entire season & their offence never let up
Just ask soccer people, saying it's the next big thing. 50 years and nothing.
Ratings don’t lie
It's not just them saying it dummy this is big news everywhere everybody is reporting it
They need a crying towel
The best team did win
lol jesus these guys are supposed to be sports guys? I've seen more well thought out takes from youtubers from their parent's basement.
Steph moves the needle
I can't even name 1 player on the Dbacks. There's no rivalry in this series. It's a yawn fest
If you lose in the playoffs early…you aren’t the best team
You clearly haven’t watched baseball this century.
Bring back steroids that was the best era
These two clearly didn't watch 1 Rangers game this season. They weren't battling with the Astros all season. They basically had a crazy 5 or 6 game lead on them and then went on a slump and let them gain to go back up 3 games and ended on another slump that let the Astros back in to win the Division. The Rangers are good. They could have won over 100 games without a dumb 10 and 5-game losing streak.
Rangers had the best offense in the AL this year. They had a winning record vs the 99 win Rays and the 101 win Orioles. A record 11 straight playoffs wins ON THE ROAD that will NEVER be beaten. These clowns dont know anything about baseball. The 98 Yankees couldnt beat this Ranger team.
No one cares about these 2 teams. An Astro/Philly would have had triple the viewers of this world series. This was by far the worst world series ever. Absolutely no excitement,no drama,no great players. Just an awful WS. Maybe the worst championship final in sports history.
Yawn no one cares about the Astros or the lulphillies. Stop crying.
I'm going to go straight to the point the state of Texas who has a lot of power and these United States basically paid MLB to win the world series but MLB will see that their ratings was down so they won't do that next year just like the White Sox in 2005 I can go back a couple of other teams but I don't feel like digging right now all sports is corrupted
Baseball and NBA both dying sports.
The nba will never die
The world series would have been fine if it went to a game 6 or 7. Baseball has a brighter future than the NFL and NBA. The NFL is a joke with gambling, 17 games, Thursday games, and Taylor Swift desperation. Once Lebron retires, the story of the NBA that started in the 1980s is over. It'll never be like it used to be.
Sure, Jan.
Just my opinion is baseball is just not very exciting, especially in the playoffs which is the opposite for other sports and by that I mean a coach will take out a pitcher to pitch to one batter and then change pitchers again. Additionally, a game can absolutely be over so fast in baseball that it’s not worth paying attention by the 8th 9th inning because if you have 6th-9th hitters up their not that good so the best guys don’t even get to hit.
Boo hoo... lets Go Rangers!