Thread: Lame Monday night game beats classic ALCS game in ratings

Lame Monday night game beats classic ALCS game in ratings

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on October 19, 2010 10:37 AM ET
It's almost like the NFL scheduled the Jaguars and Titans on Monday night just to rub it in Major League Baseball's face.

Despite a 30-3 final score and a matchup of teams in low-rated markets, Monday Night Football still got better ratings than Game Three of the American Championship League Series between the Yankees (top television market) and Rangers (fifth-rated market.)

The final ratings (7.2-6.5) was a lot closer than the football score. Both games were on cable, which kept the playing field even.

The football game had two backup quarterbacks in by halftime, while the baseball game was tight into the ninth inning and included an epic pitching performance by Cliff Lee.

There was a time in my life this would have surprised me. Of course, there was also a time in my life I would have watched the last few innings of baseball instead of staying with the football game to see how Trent Edwards, Damian Williams, and Tiquan Underwood looked.

I'm no longer surprised that so many of you feel the same way. The NFL is a behemoth, somehow rapidly picking up viewers when everything else on television is just trying to slow down erosion.

The owners and the players can't possibly screw this up, right?




Which one is America's Sport again???

Stupid baseball. I was once as big a baseball fan as I was a football fan. They screwed that up in every way possible. A powerful players union that won't allow for salary caps and cancelled a World Series, stupid marketing, lack of revenue sharing leading to a class of permanently uncompetitive franchises, on and on and on.

It would be hard to be stupider than MLB - yet, amazingly, the NBA went and did it anyways when they made it a League centered around a very few stars and tolerated thug behavior from the players

Baseball sucks. I would watch two winless football teams play before watching a baseball game its that bad.

Why was it a "classic" game. Because it involved the Yankees? So if it were the Angels and Twins, it wouldn't be "classic"?

It was an 8-0 shutout vs. a 30-3 rout. I stopped watching both before the games ended.

Baseball sucks

As others already said, the word is out........baseball sucks.

It is hard to remember when the games are on because they play a 7 game series over the span of 3 1/2 months

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Stupid baseball. I was once as big a baseball fan as I was a football fan. They screwed that up in every way possible. A powerful players union that won't allow for salary caps and cancelled a World Series, stupid marketing, lack of revenue sharing leading to a class of permanently uncompetitive franchises, on and on and on.

It would be hard to be stupider than MLB - yet, amazingly, the NBA went and did it anyways when they made it a League centered around a very few stars and tolerated thug behavior from the players

Thankfully, the Oklahoma City Thunder are showing the NBA how it should be done, building a team of guys who are talented, but who also understand the importance of team-work, and that no super-star is bigger than the team.

It will be a fun experiment over the next few years to see which model works better: The Miami Heat and their ego-driver super-star line-up of "King" James, Wade & Bosh, or the OKC Thunder and their humble, hard-working "team" of Durant, Westbrook, Harden et al.

Isnt Durant a major star?

Originally Posted by Northman

Isnt Durant a major star?

A major star who signed a contract extension without fan-fare or press conferences. Who humbly talks about working hard every chance he gets.

A major star, whom Sports Illustrated wanted for the cover of the NBA special edition this week. .. . and he said he'd only do it if they put his team-mates Sabo Thefolosha and Nenad Krstic on the cover with him. I dare say, a lot of even NBA fans won't recognize either of the other two by face, but Durant wanted them to share the spot-light with him.

That's a quite a difference from the three yahoos in Miami.

You mean James and company wouldnt pose with each other on SI? Im confused.

Originally Posted by Northman

You mean James and company wouldnt pose with each other on SI? Im confused.

Would James and company ask for their team-mates to be included on an SI cover with them?

I've seen a ton of hype about the "three kings". Lots of photo-ops, lots of press about those three, but I don't ever see anything with any of the rest of their team.

Durant got asked to grace the cover of SI and he refused unless two guys that never get their name in the media (one of which who often comes off the bench) were on the cover with him.

Wait, wasn't this a baseball sucks thread? When did Labron James and Kevin Durant start playing baseball? Were THEY in the ALCS?