I Feel Bad for Baseball

[jadillac]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/sports/baseball/attendance-down-for-yankees.html

On a sunny afternoon, 47,082 fans were at the stadium to watch the Yankees play Detroit in Game 2 of their best-of-seven American League Championship Series. It was the third straight playoff home game that the Yankees drew fewer than 47,200 fans, or about 3,000 short of capacity. During the previous 17 playoff home games dating to 2009, when the new Yankee Stadium opened, the Yankees averaged 50,140 fans.

WOW. I was gonna call BS, but it's a reliable source in the NYT. And I saw this. I would've NEVER thought the Yankees would not sell out a playoff game....and baseball playoff games in general aren't even ridculously overpriced. But maybe the Yankees games are, I dunno...

Ushers were told to move fans in the upper deck into empty seats below so the unfilled sections would be less noticeable, according to Yahoo Sports.

 

[HHR]

how are the games great?

-Awful offense
-No identifiable superstars
-Non-Sell Outs
-Games starting at 1pm (pacific)
-No Storylines
-No Minorities playing

it sucks breh.. last year was dope.. these playoffs are trash

What fukking playoffs have you been watching?

All division series went 5 games...had MULTIPLE 9th inning rallies...in the 5th games...

I don't need "storylines" when the GAMES are fukking great.

Awful offense? There is more to baseball than the Yankees.

No sellouts? First...I don't give a shyt. And again, there is more to baseball than the Yankees.

What do you consider a minority?

Cabrera, Fielder, Granderson, Cano, Ibanez, Jackson, Peralta, Young, Ichiro.....and that was just in tonight's game

 

[mr_metoo]

i will but i have to look for all my sources again. i had to research for this subject, its part of a larger problem in america and globally in all developed countries: ie our birthrates have dropped below replacement levels which is a giant problem in more ways than just sports. heres a article about it i think it got posted in HL a couple weeks ago. if youre really serious about me posting all of this stuff for you you should read it:

The Gray Tsunami | Aging | DISCOVER Magazine

heres a article about healthcare problems associated to this also

The Dementia Plague - Technology Review



so we as a country would need to spend 1 trillion every year for these people, just for the ones with alzhiemers. in 2010 we spent only 793 billion yearly for all healthcare for all people in america. 1 trillion is one billion, one thousand times.

i'll get the data on elderly spending for you later i have to dig through a whole bunch of beureu of labor statistics pages again. but im telling you that they spend the least amount of money in all of society

Ima need more thatn that and you can even just PM them if needed. But from what you posted seems like every other generation. But I think there is more to your point I would like to hear it

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

alright

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

What fukking playoffs have you been watching?

All division series went 5 games...had MULTIPLE 9th inning rallies...in the 5th games...

I don't need "storylines" when the GAMES are fukking great.

Awful offense? There is more to baseball than the Yankees.

No sellouts? First...I don't give a shyt. And again, there is more to baseball than the Yankees.

What do you consider a minority?

Cabrera, Fielder, Granderson, Cano, Ibanez, Jackson, Peralta, Young, Ichiro.....and that was just in tonight's game

They need to technologize the game a little more. have players tweet while their in the dugout or somethin. speed up the game, get rid of the batting order, take the mound back 7-10 feet to increase scoring.

And when i say minority i mean Black Stars.

 

[HHR]

Cool, I just figured out how to put someone on ignore.

 

[MercuryHayes]

how are the games great?

-Awful offense
-No identifiable superstars
-Non-Sell Outs
-Games starting at 1pm (pacific)
-No Storylines
-No Minorities playing

it sucks breh.. last year was dope.. these playoffs are trash

Last year was Detroit v Texas & STL vs Milwaukee

are you saying Texas v Milwaukee is ideal?

 

[tremonthustler1]

They need to technologize the game a little more. have players tweet while their in the dugout or somethin. speed up the game, get rid of the batting order, take the mound back 7-10 feet to increase scoring.

And when i say minority i mean Black Stars.

Or don't watch. I know it's tough for you, considering you can't get baseball off your mind.

 

[jfkennedy]

They need to technologize the game a little more. have players tweet while their in the dugout or somethin. speed up the game, get rid of the batting order, take the mound back 7-10 feet to increase scoring.

And when i say minority i mean Black Stars.

What did I just read?

 

[Stone]

Why people keep listening to these ADD children complain about baseball is beyond me.

Not enough fodder for tweets for this generation is basically baseball's biggest problem.

 

[the next guy]

Why people keep listening to these ADD children complain about baseball is beyond me.

Not enough fodder for tweets for this generation is basically baseball's biggest problem.

Lack of black role models? Cheating? Crappy Commish?

 

[jadillac]

They need to technologize the game a little more. have players tweet while their in the dugout or somethin. speed up the game, get rid of the batting order, take the mound back 7-10 feet to increase scoring.

And when i say minority i mean Black Stars.

You're cool and all breh, but

 

[Stone]

Lack of black role models? Cheating? Crappy Commish?

Matt Kemp? Andrew McCutchen? Granderson? David Price? not as many as NFL and NBA but there's still guys out there.



There's cheating in every sport and Goodell is also a crappy commissioner.

 

[Czerka]

And this fakkits screenname is "educatedbrotha"

 

[Mook]

Baseball fans should thank god everyday that the NHL owners are too stupid to move hockey to the summer.

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