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I was adapting the phrase that was said to Shoeless regarding the 1919 WS because they tried to fix it Humour gun is obviously off-target today - my bad
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I am thinking he was using the word Fix as in FIX THE OUTCOME of the game.
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Well, it's a significantly less stupid sport, so it has one large inherent advantage.
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"Reality" shows surpassed serious dramas in popularity on TV years ago too. That doesn't make them inherently less stupid.
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Hit Me Baby One More Time went 17x platinum, compared to 5x platinum for Revolver, which tells you about all you need to know about the value of most people's opinions.
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In terms of pure rating, the NFL playoffs score much higher than the MLB. Even the Super Bowl does much better than Game 7 or the World Series.
As far as youth sports, I read somewhere that more kids play football now, than baseball. It is certainly almost always must easier to get a backyard football game going than a sandlot baseball game. |
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But at least the "fad" of "reality tv" has largely worn off. That only lasted for all of a few years at it's peak. Whereas, the dramas have been around forever. How many Law and Order spinoffs are there now? lol. But that doesn;t apply to baseball or football anyway. Baseball has been around for 150 years (depeding on when you think it was invented) and football has been around and popular for about 70 years. In terms of merchandise sales, I bet the NFL earns more than baseball. I dunno, I haven;t looked it up, but I would probably make that bet. |
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Care to provide an example of the above?
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The English Premier League is the biggest one.
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