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MLB 2024: robot umps, please

burd said:
I suppose a majority of fans hate both the Dodgers and the Yanks, but the thought of a Yankee/Dodger WS is OK. Evokes memories of Vin Skully and . . . who on the NY side, Joe Garagiola?
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For all of the hate teams like the Yankees and Dodgers get, their “dominance” pales in comparison to the Euro soccer teams. From a Reddit post:

Man City has more league titles in the last 13 years (8) than any NFL team has Super Bowls in its entire existence (6).

Bayern Munich won 11 consecutive titles, a run that ended last year. No team in American sports can match that to my knowledge, not even the Celtics of the 60s.

Real Madrid has won more CL titles in the last 10 years (6) than the number of World Series the Yankees have won in the last 40 years (5)

PSG has 10 titles in the last 12 years. Only 3 NHL teams have that many Stanley Cups over their entire existence, and 2 of those teams are based in Canada.
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Wild series. 6 games; 6 routs:

0-9
7-3
0-8
2-10
12-6
5-10

This was a wonderful year. I love baseball and I love the Mets.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Still won’t beat the Japanese ratings.
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It makes me a little sad whenever I see stories like that. Canada’s 2010 gold medal game had half the country watching (and I think like 70% tuned in for OT?), Finland had 60% tuning in to see an IIHF final. Japan is pulling numbers for morning baseball from an entirely different league because there are two Japanese players on a team. There’s no great unifying broadcast like that in the US anymore. Even the Super Bowl only pulls a third of the country and a good percentage of them don’t even care about the game.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
It makes me a little sad whenever I see stories like that. Canada’s 2010 gold medal game had half the country watching (and I think like 70% tuned in for OT?), Finland had 60% tuning in to see an IIHF final. Japan is pulling numbers for morning baseball from an entirely different league because there are two Japanese players on a team. There’s no great unifying broadcast like that in the US anymore. Even the Super Bowl only pulls a third of the country and a good percentage of them don’t even care about the game.
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Smaller populations and smaller geographical areas helps. Easier to market an event for a single time zone than six. In Canada’s case it was a perfect storm of national sport, international event, host country, and playing the Americans.
 
For all the complaining, this World Series is the first Yankees-Dodgers matchup in my lifetime.

And I’m almost 40.
 
mookie1995 said:
mookie has to wait until Friday for this WS to start?? :rolleyes:
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My wife was complaining about the same thing. But I told her if the LCS went seven games, I believe it would have ended today. So, that's a three day rest for the WS, which would make sense.

Plus, MLB wants to have the WS cover two weekends if it goes long.
 
They were going to move it up if both series went 4 games (maybe even 5), but with the TV schedule set up to avoid the NFL there wasn't really another option once LA went 6.
 
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