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Watching the morning sports shows not on NFL Network and not a single mention of the World Series .

Not one .

The 49ers vs the Cardinals apparently is a bigger sports story then the Red Sox winning the World Series .

Heck I think they had more stories about the WNBA title game then they have the World Series
 

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Wow and just as I press submit .
FS1 has a oh BTW the Redsox win the World Series story
 
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On Wednesday nite, i actually forgot the world series was on until i got into my car around 6pm and it was mentioned.

I like how MLB used to have it where games 1,2,6,and 7 were on the weekends.

Seems like very few kids are interested either. When i drop my kids off at school, i see kids wearing football, college football, nba, and soccer gear. Very few MLB love unless its a marlins related (rare)
 

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[h=1]TV Ratings Saturday: World Series easily wins the night[/h]https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-oct-27-2018/


Doesn't look like Sunday night ratings released yet
 

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Had no clue they won the WS until getting on the RX this morning
 

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In fairness if the reds are ever good again I would be more interested in mlb
 

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Baseball...blehhhh

This is THE sport I'd have absolutely zero interest in if not for betting on it.

MLB should be kissing all States butts that legalize sports betting instead of trying to get money out of them..
 

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I just watched about 2 hrs of morning sports programming between espn, espn2, and FS1 and besides a short 90 second oh btw Red Sox win the World Series on FS1.

Not a single mention of the World Series .


Now I will give them all credit for the Saints love but still
 
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Closed the MLB season with a World Series ticket on the Red Sox...laid -140

Baseball is alive and well...
 
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Fond memories as a kid of watching baseball on TV, or listening to games on the radio, and "official" scoring the whole thing.

Now (even being a Red Sox fan) I don't watch *any* games during the season, watch partial games during the playoffs - and
then watched most of the World Series.

I guess it's just that the game is too slow in this modern day.
 

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Baseball is hurt when there's a lack of competitive balance, and 2018 was all of that especially in the AL. Interest plunged in many smaller markets who's teams became uncompetitive. Places like Baltimore & KC & Toronto & Miami took a huge hit which dragged the overall numbers down

Before 2018, baseball rebounded from it's lowest numbers from a decade ago, and it still exceeds those lows. Baseball ain't going anywhere

And what ESPN may or may not cover and when won't change that. I kinda think ESPN probably gave the WS a whole lot of coverage, but since I don't watch I wouldn't know
 

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Poor marketing, poor leadership and a massively uncompetitive landscape all hurts the product IMO. I wouldn’t say it’s dying, but has been slipping for many years compared to other major US sports. The disparity in payroll is obscene, top ten spend more than the bottom twenty combined, top five spend more than bottom 15 combined.

Even if a small market team does everything right, they get maybe a 1-2 year window before being purged by the mammoth monsters of the league, if a small market team doesn’t do everything right they are fucked. There’s a much bigger margin of error at the top when you can just buy your way out of mistakes, repeatedly.
 

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a lot of Football going on, NBA ...NHL and College Hoops just around the corner

as far as I can remember they always have a lot of football going on in late October after the World Series
 

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Poor marketing, poor leadership and a massively uncompetitive landscape all hurts the product IMO. I wouldn’t say it’s dying, but has been slipping for many years compared to other major US sports. The disparity in payroll is obscene, top ten spend more than the bottom twenty combined, top five spend more than bottom 15 combined.

Even if a small market team does everything right, they get maybe a 1-2 year window before being purged by the mammoth monsters of the league, if a small market team doesn’t do everything right they are fucked. There’s a much bigger margin of error at the top when you can just buy your way out of mistakes, repeatedly.

People will continue to watch and go to games. It's very popular on the regional level, i.e people root for their own teams. Go to games as a social event, etc.

But it's clearly not apart of the cultural zeitgeist anymore. It just isn't. It's on the level of NHL.
 

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