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Bug Selig (MLB Commissioner) jealous of NFL coverage


Dpantherman

Which is America's favorite passtime??  

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  1. 1. Which is America's favorite passtime??

    • Baseball
      10
    • Football
      62


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Yea that unnamed network should be hyped for game 1 of 162!!! WooHoo....

Then again I'm sure the poll is going to produce accurate results since the guys answering are on a Carolina football forum in the month of May. I'm surprised baseball even got two votes thus far....

I'm in St. Louis right now and thats all people care about out here are the Cardinals.

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Baseball is fun as hell to play, but frankly I'd rather watch paint dry than watch it on TV.

couldn't agree with you more kenny. Played from when I was 4 until I was 19, and for the love of god, I don't know how my parents sat through any of my games.

Still love the durham bulls though.

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If the MLB would cut their season in half, it would do wonders for their ratings. Opening day would have a lot more meaning if the actual game made an impact on the overall outcome to the season. 162 games is just too many. It wears the players down, and fans that aren't diehards aren't going to care about going a mid-afternoon game in the middle of July since that game really wont mean anything.

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As much as we have some perenial bad teams in the NFL...it's not near as bad as MLB. You can thank the salary cap in the NFL for giving everyone "some" hope. If you're a Pirate or Royals fan for the MLB, you just have to understand your role as a farm team.

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As much as we have some perenial bad teams in the NFL...it's not near as bad as MLB. You can thank the salary cap in the NFL for giving everyone "some" hope. If you're a Pirate or Royals fan for the MLB, you just have to understand your role as a farm team.

Those teams can be good. They just have to be able to draft well and bring guys up. Then, yes they will lose them to the big market teams. But if they are a well managed team, they can be good.

Not that I'm against having a salary cap (I'm for it), but what have we seen in the NFL since the cap? The well managed teams have learned how to work with it, and now we have the same teams winning all the time, and most of the same teams losing all the time. Instead of bankroll it's more about management... and the teams without a good management team don't have a shot.

And let's be honest here, it's not like having a good management team is any easier to come by than millions of extra dollars to purchase free agents off the market.

Bottom line, if a team is well run, with a cap or without, there will be success.

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If the MLB would cut their season in half, it would do wonders for their ratings. Opening day would have a lot more meaning if the actual game made an impact on the overall outcome to the season. 162 games is just too many. It wears the players down, and fans that aren't diehards aren't going to care about going a mid-afternoon game in the middle of July since that game really wont mean anything.

Yep. How many times do we watch sportscenter and see these absolutely empty stadiums because they play baseball games in the middle of the day, every day.

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