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>Baseball """"""athletes""""""
>people still watch this sleep inducing mess
>Single parent homes
>>68741161
>>68741251
these fatties would whip a fastball past your chubby little heads so fast it would send you back in time.
>tfw barely fourth most popular sport in america now
hockey will probably pass this shit soon
>>68741276
That valet looks 13, how can he valet if he's not old enough to drive
>>68741308
Lol Baseball is a 2 -3 billion dollar industry a year
stay salty America will always love Basedball
>>68741161
>fat people can't be athletes
>>68741276
Lol at the spic's face
>"su culo es muy disgusting, ay papi"
>>68741276
jeez Chloe Mortez is the most disgusting "thing" I've ever seen.
>>68741335
>According to Nielsen ratings, 50 percent of baseball viewers are 55 or older, up from 41 percent 10 years ago.
nobody gives a shit about it besides oldfags
>>68741308
Actually baseball is still #2 right behind football. But in some states like New York and Missouri baseball is still the most popular.
>>68741378
Could I have a source please?
>>68741360
Mexicans love baseball.
America's majority race will keep baseball alive.
Every stadium will look like dodger stadium in 10 years
>>68741378
>Cleveland's tense 93-89 win Sunday night to capture the city's first title in more than a half-century averaged a 15.7 rating and nearly 30.8 million viewers on ABC.
>The 2015 World Series averaged a 10.1 rating nationwide or 14.7 million viewers, up 26% over the first five games of last year's series, and a 6% increase over the Royals/Giants seven-game series overall.
>>68741360
except for the entire other half of the fanbase 50 or under.
>>68741432
spics will stay with soccer once the Lakers continue to be shit and the Dodgers do literally nothing
>>68741465
nah.
>>68741455
>The article points out that MLB viewers are the oldest of any sport, with 50 percent being over the age of 50. And for the first time ever there were no baseball players among ESPN’s 2015 list of favorite athletes
You oldfags need to move on
>>68741455
Most likely 40-55 is 25ish percent
30-40 is 10ish percent then the rest is younger
>>68741308
>>68741161
>Hating on Based Colon
>>68741532
aaaand now the cuckhoop cucks disappear from the thread, never to be seen again
>>68741532
>NBA 6%
Make your shoops a bit more believable next time
>>68741251
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/cc-sabathia-drops-25-pounds-not-eating-cap-crunch-key-yankee-ace-weight-loss-article-1.133817
>Sabathia, who tipped the scales at 315 pounds last season, had been eating 15 times the recommended serving size of the crunchy kernels.
>"I used to eat it a box at a time," Sabathia said.
>>68741532
>it was a poll with probably less than 1000 votes
yeah this proves everything
>>68741498
got a source on that? :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzLERV9l9Vs
>>68741589
>1000 is not a good sample size
Have you ever taken a statistics class you dumb shit?
>>68741552
see
>>68741440
Before you go b-but game 7, game 1 had 19.2 million viewers
If basedball isn't based then how come it's called BASEDball?
Checkmate.
>>68741624
see
>>68741440
If the meme magic comes through for USA soccer will pass baseball in no time
>>68741631
so people only give a shit about the NBA when it's playoff time, i already knew that.
>>68741675
>people only give a shit at the most important time
>>68741606
Nope, I'm just estimating based on experiences.
I'm not the source guy. Sorry. :l
>>68741673
oh shit, that's the worst post i've ever read on 4chan.
>>68741631
To be fair it had the two most popular players going head to head and everyone wanted to see the Warriors fail. If it had been Cleveland vs OKC not as many people would have given a fuck.
>>68741673
A sport is more than just the finals faggot. I'm positive millions of people watched the world cup final in the US but that doesn't mean soccer is a relevant sport here.
Isn't college football more popular than anything other than the NFL?
>>68741537
does this even count if the ball isnt in his glove
>>68741724
It was a rematch, not like they haven't seen this before
>>68741727
>A lot of Americans tuned in to watch Sunday’s 2014 World Cup final on ABC. ESPN’s public relations released the ratings figures for Germany’s 1-0 win in Rio. The game averaged over 17.3 million viewers … on ABC. The total number jumps closer to 26.5 millio when you factor in the 9.2 million viewers on Univision
>still lower than NBA
>>68741631
Sports are mor than just the finals. The FIFA world cup that the US hosted had the most spectators and viewers ever in any world cup. But we still don't really give a shit about soccer.
>>68741761
watch it again, he puts the ball back in the glove right before he tags him.
>>68741789
So you're telling me when it's the biggest series of the year people don't care about Baseball enough to watch as much as Basketball?
>>68741788
Yes but it was history in the making. I don't really follow basketball but I watched just to see Cleveland get their first championship in 50 years, and to see that cunt Curry get btfo.
>>68741865
Again game 1 had 19.1 million viewers
>>68741821
just do your own research, baseball is the second most popular sport in the country and college football is more popular than cuckhoop. tv ratings don't prove everything, because if they did, then soccer would be more popular than cuckhoop, which is obviously not the case.
>>68741897
Just posted that game 7 got a shitload more viewers than the world cup final, try again
>>68741161
>>68741537
Bartolo Colon is a national treasure.
>>68741897
>just do your own research
>burden of proof fallacy
I too have been in denial of the truth
>>68741821
What I'm saying is when it's the finals casuals will jump on a team's bandwagon and pretend to care. Football is king and cuckhoop will never compete. I'm willing to bet that soccer will one day overtake basketball in the US.
>>68741927
by ignoring the other ten million viewers on Univision for some reason, despite the fact that it's an american television company based out of New York.
>>68742013
So casuals care enough to watch Basketball and not Baseball?
>>68742014
Game 7 had 4 million more viewers including the Univision viewers
How do you go from this...
>>68742006
>>68742049
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10354114/harris-poll-nfl-most-popular-mlb-2nd
now you can all shut the fuck up, and stop exposing the fact that you are not real americans. gg no re.
>>68742105
>Jan 26, 2014
kek
>>68742127
yep, that is indeed the month, day and year that the article was published. good job jamal.
>>68742066
20 years of exposion to American food.
>>68742105
>Nine percent fewer fans call baseball their favorite sport over the 30-year span, the biggest drop of any sport. The polling numbers suggest that the sport hasn't been able to recover from a popularity standpoint from 1994, when a strike forced the cancellation of the World Series.
>This was 2014
>Basketball is now breaking ratings records
my sides
>>68742160
His point is that your source is out of date.
>>68742172
lets see your source then, stating that basketball is more popular.
seems like a great sport to get into
>can eat what you want and be a fat fuck
>still get a multi million dollar salary
>>68742224
Google "Finals ratings record" and take your pick
Your argument is either saying that nobody gives a shit enough about baseball to tune in during the biggest games of the series, or all the casuals and new fans are picking basketball over them
>>68742217
and my point is that two years isn't enough time for a fifth place sport to overtake a second place sport. but keep trying jamal, you're doin great.
>>68742273
the world series ratings have been down since the 90s, yet it still remains the second most popular sport in the country, so tv ratings obviously don't prove everything.
>TV views
Kind of unfair since a LOT of people still listen to baseball on the radio, unlike football and basketball.
>>68742291
>unironically believing auto racing is more popular than the NBA
>The poll surveyed 2,255 adults
Cletus and Dale really came out to vote
>>68742161
>exposion
>>68742327
I know Rufus and his cousins really campaigned for votes but they don't mean more than TV ratings
>>68742374
NASCAR tracks have hundreds of thousands of seats and people prefer to see it in person rather than on tv.
>>68742445
>. Since 2012, however, NASCAR stopped releasing attendance numbers leaving sports fans, analysts, and commentators without any information on how many people are actually attending races.
Sorry Cletus but nobody gives a shit about auto racing
>2015 MLB Revenue: ~9.5 billion
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2015/12/04/mlb-sees-record-revenues-for-2015-up-500-million-and-approaching-9-5-billion/#4af61b0d2307
>2015 NBA revenue: 5 billion
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2015/03/09/Leagues-and-Governing-Bodies/NFL-revenue.aspx
>The NFL remains the top revenue league in U.S. sports. MLB registers about $9 billion annually, the NBA $5 billion and the NHL $3.6 billion.
>>68742374
It's like you've never taken a stats class if you actually think surveys regularly tally more than a few thousand at the high end.
>>68742426
2015 finals generated 7 million fewer viewers than this year's, and in 2014 there were literally HALF as many viewers. so obviously this Warriors team is generating a lot of buzz for the NBA that they haven't enjoyed since the Jordan era.
>>68742469
Finally a source that Dale and his pals didn't rig
Good numbers for baseball but with the NBA breaking ratings records multiple times during the playoffs I can't see it staying that way for very long
>>68742465
i was just trying to explain the difference between the sports, you dumb, ass pained cuck motherfucker.
When it comes to local market ratings, NBA actually does worse than NFL, MLB, and even NHL. It's just that a ton of nignogs in other parts of the country bandwagon teams. It happens with other sports, but anywhere near the level it does with basketball. It's why they're by far the worst fans.
Football will dominate the USA some day. Let's look at its rivals:
>Baseball
Rapidly dying with the babyboomer generation. Boring sport, little interest from the current generation and only popular among old people and some minorities.
>Ice hockey
Will die out with global warming, the vast majority of the American populace will never even play a game of ice hockey so interest will stagnate.
>Handegg
Deeply flawed and fundamentally boring game. As more research regarding the detrimental impact on handegg on the brain and body gets published, the sport will be banned from high schools and interest will diminish rapidly.
>Basketball
Literally the only worthy competitor and only respectable sport. Will also keep growing but not as fast as football.
Now let's look at football:
>most popular sport worldwide
>Loved by Hispanics, biggest minority
>Easy to play and simple to get in to
>Kid-friendly and woman-friendly unlike handegg
>with increasing globalisation exposure to football will increase
>as the US starts becoming better, interest will increase
>>68742526
the difference is auto racing doesn't compare at all to the NBA
relax rufus
>>68742522
You underestimate how irrelevant the NBA is in about a third of their markets (the perennially awful teams)
Even the worst baseball teams still bring in about 20-25k, and teams with the lowest attendance (Cleveland, White Sox) are about the same as an NBA game
>>68742548
hahahahahahah
>>68742548
>rapidly dying
Not at all, local ratings are at an all time high, it's as profitable as it's been since pre-strike
>will die out with global warming
That's not how ice rinks work
>deeply flawed
No one cares
>only worthy competitor
Kek
>let's look at football
Gay
Shitty post, Trump will change everything and get rid of little poisons like you
>>68742561
the difference is that tv ratings are not going to be as high because it's a spectator sport, you dumb, ass pained cuck motherfucker. also i live in the northeast. but you can keep calling be rufus because i know your posts don't hold any weight without memes.
>>68742596
>Spectator sport
>NASCAR stopped releasing attendance figures because nobody gives a shit about it
>Somehow more popular than the NBA
keep trying Rufus
>>68742585
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/current_attendance.shtml
21 of the teams in the leagues attendance are down this year. I think it's only gonna get worse as the NBA grows
>>68742548
lel
Soccer is for pansies and hooligans. It's only popular because it's easy to play, so poor people can play it without having to buy equipment. The only reason it's popular in wealthier countries is tradition. Fans of good sports like baseball and American football are never going to give up the strategy and tension of those sports for fucking divegrass.
>>68742687
nice proxy dickwad
>>68742639
the tv ratings for the Daytona 500 are only a million less than the standard for the NBA Finals between 2000-2014, faggot ass bitch. and that's without counting the 100 thousand people who see the race in person.
>>68742668
Sports attendance isn't a zero sum game.
>>68742668
the NBA has only grown because of the Warriors as previously stated, and unless they make it back to the Finals in 2017, expect the ratings to return to their 20 million norm.
>>68742717
>he said "soccer", he must be American
Sorry that you're so butthurt.
>>68742729
>Ignoring this year and the last year where the NBA broke records and has gotten the highest ratings since the Jordan era
I didn't mean to make you this mad Cletus
>>68742773
Even if they don't, the OKC/Warriors series got extremely high ratings too
>>68742548
kid died in a "handegg" game in my county a couple years ago. after that, attendance increased.
>>68741360
That's fine, millenials are all broke and living under a mountain of debt anyway, there's no money there.
>>68742829
because of ONE team, faggot. what happens when the role players decide to get paid, eh? or do you not know anything about sports?
>>68742863
>The 2012 NBA Finals – the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to become NBA Champions – generated the most-watched and highest-rated five-game average for The Finals since 2004 and the second most-watched in ABC history, according to Nielsen.
People will want to see Durant win one now since lebron got one for the land
>>68742548
>basketball
>respectable
this is how i know you don't have any idea what you're talking about
>>68742785
either a proxy or a self-hating hipster turd. either way you're fucking gay mate
>>68742898
people wanted to see Durant win three years ago but they gave up Harden and now that team has much less appeal.
>>68741161
How can I get into baseball? I love the passion fans have around the game, I don't think any sport can compare in that regard. But I just can't watch it, it's too slow and boring. And apparently the Braves are terrible.
The weird thing is I really like Cricket, so it's not the ball and stick genre.
>>68742998
>Anyone liking Harden
kek
>>68743002
Shitpost on /sp/ gamethreads while you watch and it makes it more fun. Also go to games live with friends.
>>68743002
learn the sport so it becomes not boring. watch it every day to learn. join a softball team.
>>68743024
do you not remember the 6th man of the year? are you that new?
>>68743022
why do eurpoean teams all have nauseating jersey designs?
>>68743054
I repeat
>anyone liking Harden
Him and Dwight are two of the most hated players in the league
>>68743087
i know you're new to this but he used to be on a different team called the Oklahoma City Thunder where he didn't play iso ball.
>>68742541
this
>>68743123
And now nobody likes him
>has much less appeal
It has even more appeal now because people will latch on to Durant, who else are they rooting for? Curry is done and Lebron bringing another one home for the land is outdated
>>68742948
Because basketball is the only American sport semi-relevant in Yurops. Retarded bong thinks "Yuros like it so it must be good."
>>68743147
christ you're thick headed. they have less appeal now because they have less of a chance to win the championship.
>>68742832
Are you really older than 35?
>>68743193
>One game away from the finals
It's 50-50 on Durant even staying so this is all irrelevant
Tell me about OKC, why do they have such a shot logo?
>>68743221
they should have been swept, Warriors were tired because their meme coach didn't let them rest at the end of the season. and they were IN the Finals when they had Harden, not one game away.
>>68743217
nope, I'm a broke millenial too
>>68742992
You're sperging in so many directions at once that I don't even know where to start.
Just accept that soccer is shit, and you're a low-quality person for liking it.
>>68743783
you're literally more pathetic than those yanks trying to imitate european football culture. neck yourself you pathetic cretin.
>>68744193
>because he doesn't like a gay sport he is a pathetic cretin
Calm your autism
>>68744211
>being so dense you can't even follow the argument
as expected of that flag
>>68744228
His argument is that soccer is shit. Why are you so mad?
>>68744271
is this where you turn off your proxy to suck your own cock? so sad.
>>68744293
I'm not the same person dickface. You getting mad at a Brit not liking your beloved sport is hilarious though.
>baseball games
>>68744193
Pal, you got flustered when I called soccer shit and then your rebuttal was to call me "gay". You are a low-quality person.
>>68744320
he looks incredibly comfy, baseball must be awesome
>>68744321
nah, i called you out on your cringeworthy adoption of american vernacular despite posting under a british flag, which leads me to believe you're either not british, or some fedora-tier hipster twat
>>68744393
>getting mad at someone using the term "soccer"
lel
>>68744320
What other sports are exciting enough that people could watch them for 3+ hours?
>>68744393
I come from a country wherein "soccer" is often the accepted name for association football. You idiot.
Accept that you are low-quality now.
>>68744435
feel free to fuck off back there, vermin.
>>68744453
muh footbaw is wel gud innit
>>68744483
literally the most lucrative sport in the world enjoyed by rich and poor alike. enjoy your shit-tier exercises in how many commercials you can cram into a broadcast and still call it a sport though.
>>68742548
terrible shitpost m8
>>68744514
>it's good because there's money in it
I feel like I'm picking on an aspie, so I'm going to stop now.
>>68744514
NFL has more profit than the BPL by quite a large margin.
>>68741335
people like NASCAR too, that doesnt make it good
>>68744570
not an argument. the BPL is one league for a small country. the NFL is the only professional league for your "sport"
>>68744564
keep spouting buzzwords because you can't think of an actual argument. as expected of a mouthbreather who enjoys watching 3 hours of commercials.
>>68744630
NFL is higher than your big 4 European leagues combined.
Congratulations! Your Grimer evolved into Muk!
>>68744653
there's more than 4 leagues in europe, mate. keep choosing arbitrary numbers to suit your argument though. football is more lucrative than handegg, this is a fact.
Why do people pick on baseball so much? Are you spiteful of /mlb/ posters for staying within their containment thread and not flooding the board with terrible memes and shitposts?
>>68741624
Do you really think any sample the USA today is going to get will accurately reflect the demographics of the U.S. Literally the only people reading newspapers are old people.
>>68741495
>>And for the first time ever there were no baseball players among ESPN’s 2015 list of favorite athletes
>ESPN
>>68744699
/mlb/ posters tend to be less autistic than the rest of this godforsaken board
>>68744696
Does anyone care about the other ones though? Who cares about Steaua Bucuresti or Partizan. I'm sure you unironically watch the polish top flight right?
>>68744819
Oh i beg to differ, our biggest clinical autists have disappeared over the past couple years but we've evolved to pure Asperger's
/mlb/ is ahead of its time in autism
>>68741276
dat toe bro
>>68744900
fany alone is more autistic than /mlb/
>>68744924
I don't think he still posts, at least not in the way he would literally spam every single dead thread with k-pop pictures and try to make ever single gamethread
>>68741360
TV numbers are skewed since 80 percent of la cant watch the dodgers
>>68741643
>2nd baseman shit technique on display
You start the motion before the jump faggot
Why do apehoop fans use national TV ratings for the NBA Finals as "proof" that the NBA is more popular than the MLB?
Most people didn't tune in to watch basketball for these NBA Finals, they tuned in to watch Curry and Lebron and see if Cleveland could break its 52 year curse.
Also, 30.8 million. Lol.
You had the two faces of the sport squaring off in a close game 7 backed by the Cleveland curse storyline, and it only drew 30.8 million.
The last World Series game 7 in 2014 drew 23 million. And that was a game between 2 small market teams, no storylines, no big stars. If the Cubs were to play a game 7 against the Yankees, it would easily break 30.8 million.
Really, any NBA game that doesn't feature Lebron, Curry, or the Lakers doesn't draw flies.
Also, regular season baseball beats the NBA playoffs in local markets, meaning the guy in New York is watching the Mets over Curry.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2015/05/18/baseball-is-beating-the-nba-and-nhl-playoffs-in-local-tv-ratings/#13e93c163b90
