Holy Crap I Just Had a Nightmarish Flashback to Jeffrey Maier

[BaltimoreTerp]

And the games start at 457 PM in the West Coast. Many people aren't be home from work. You have to show the games when you can get the most viewers. The NBA Finals start after 9 PM and how many people complain about that.

I was 8 years old in 1983. I moaned and groaned about having to go to bed when the Orioles played night games in the playoffs. I was a huge fan it didn't stop me from liking the sport.

NBA games go 2.5 hours. MLB playoff games go an hour longer, maybe more.

And you just proved his point: overall viewers versus the type of viewers.

[waroriole]

Here in Hartford, Im right in the middle of the two markets. Yankees fans have always been horrible, but ever since 2004, Red Sox fans have become a million times worse.

And it's not even close.

WOO HOOOOOOO!!! Molina makes the TBS crew look prophetic!

I'll defer to you here, but in my experiences fans at Fenway are good knowledgable baseball people. While people at MFY Stadium are giant tools.

Also, TBS guys called it.:clap3:

[eddie83]

NBA games go 2.5 hours. MLB playoff games go an hour longer, maybe more.

And you just proved his point: overall viewers versus the type of viewers.

Any business would do that. I think the thought that kids aren't becoming fans because of the starting time of the World Series is wrong.

NBA Finals are still getting over past 1130 what is the difference?

[SteveA]

The World Series will always be on his watch. It should be on the union as well. The issues with the union started long before his watch.

What would you do to bring younger people back? The world has changed. I still see plenty of kids going to games though. I keep hearing about soccer and lacrosse and yet no one pays to see those games.

I don't see why it should be on the union. They were willing to settle for the status quo, which they pretty much did the next year. He and the owners were trying to break the union.

[bOhs01]

I love how he says "Red Sox Country".

I have an idea, you little punkass...how about you move down here and get a job teaching and coaching basketball in Orioles Country and see how long you last?

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hahahahaha this cracked me up

[BaltimoreTerp]

I didn't say that. I am pointing out the fact that in all aspects of life including sports things don't happen overnight, right or wrong.

Sure they do. Usually because, like in this case, someone has a reason for keeping their head in the sand until something galvanizes the media.

It could be this play for instant replay in baseball, which should have been implemented at least five years ago.

Same thing with hard hits and football, which hasn't wanted to confront the hypocrisy at the foundation of the sport: allowing the hard hitting the players and fans love while preventing serious injury and death. Between this weekend's repercussions and the already rising swell around brain injuries over the past couple years, they are being dragged into the modern world as well.

[Jagwar]

I'll defer to you here, but in my experiences fans at Fenway are good knowledgable baseball people. While people at MFY Stadium are giant tools.

Also, TBS guys called it.:clap3:

They are knowledgeable, but they are horrible winners. For years I listened to them complain about how obnoxious Yankees fans were. Then they won in 2004 and became everything they complained about and worse.

You're in Philly? You have your own wonderful fans there. (I used to live in Philly too)

[eddie83]

I don't see why it should be on the union. They were willing to settle for the status quo, which they pretty much did the next year. He and the owners were trying to break the union.

The strike is Selig's biggest blunder and he deserves blame to say the least.

I think the union has gone out of it's way over the years to work against the sport.

[waroriole]

You're in Philly? You have your own wonderful fans there. (I used to live in Philly too)

Ugh, tell me about it. All the sportscasters on the radio are assuming the NLCS is a foregone conclusion, it's just absurd. Of course, a couple of months ago they were doing nothing but crying and some idiots were talking about how Halladay wasn't doing his job because he had lost 10 games.

All that said, they are still better than MFY fans.

[sangar]

They put Murphy on to get to Molina. :2yay-thumb:

[eddie83]

Sure they do. Usually because, like in this case, someone has a reason for keeping their head in the sand until something galvanizes the media.

It could be this play for instant replay in baseball, which should have been implemented at least five years ago.

Same thing with hard hits and football, which hasn't wanted to confront the hypocrisy at the foundation of the sport: allowing the hard hitting the players and fans love while preventing serious injury and death. Between this weekend's repercussions and the already rising swell around brain injuries over the past couple years, they are being dragged into the modern world as well.

Then why doesn't the NFL and it's commisioner get ripped the way Selig does? The NFL can do no wrong.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Any business would do that. I think the thought that kids aren't becoming fans because of the starting time of the World Series is wrong.

NBA Finals are still getting over past 1130 what is the difference?

MLB spent the past 20 years ending after midnight. That's the difference: ending time.

Kids living east of the Mountain time zone don't get to see the end of important baseball games, so unless they are already attached to a team like you were they don't get to experience the best the sport has to offer.

And in yet another case of brow-beating by the fans and media, MLB has FINALLY begun starting games earlier. This is a very new thing for them, so please don't act like it is some sort of defense of the organization like you appeared to earlier.

[Jagwar]

Ugh, tell me about it. All the sportscasters on the radio are assuming the NLCS is a foregone conclusion, it's just absurd. Of course, a couple of months ago they were doing nothing but crying and some idiots were talking about how Halladay wasn't doing his job because he had lost 10 games.

All that said, they are still better than MFY fans.

Im not so sure. Yankees fans didn't boo Mike Schmidt and Santa Claus.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Then why doesn't the NFL and it's commisioner get ripped the way Selig does? The NFL can do no wrong.

Because they got pulled over the coals yesterday, and are installing new policies tomorrow. They know how to respond to limit the damage, which is enough for some (maybe most). MLB hasn't figured that out yet.

The instant replay debacle is like the NFL having major incidents and media scrutiny over big hits every year for the past decade.

[Jagwar]

LOL at Hamilton's HR!!!

No interference there...