the hell plunking them with a ball, go rocket on them and hit them with a flying bat. disgraceful those grins on gomez and hodor.
Only pythag stat geeks would care about scoring margin as relevant to how good teams are. Otherwise, a loss is a loss, whether its 15-1 or 2-1.
The rangers are single handily keeping us out of the playoffs. Why can they spend so much more than us.
They don't play in a smaller market. http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/public%20factsheets/tv/2016-local-television-market-universe-estimates.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropolitan_areas_by_population
Media market size is different than size of a city's population. Houston is likely already the 3rd most populated city in the US.
Metro size is more accurate.... and based on that, Houston is still behind DFW (despite growing). Media market size is relevant. Its why networks cater to certain markets. Fans of a team presumably are those that can be reached via television... thus the amount of actual TV viewers is very important to determining whether or not a market can support a sports team.
That's strictly city-limit population. Since Houston is so damn big, area wise, and they virtually annexed any surrounding city, it gets credit for the majority of the population of the metro area. NY, Boston, Chicago, Philly, DFW all can claim bigger surrounding areas that do all support their respective sports teams (especially when their teams don't actually play in the main city limits).
I live in austin. Ranger country. Sorry houston has no market out side of houston. However we have a huge community for the houston texans in austin but besides that it's cowboy country
It used to be astros country when they were good. Austin is all about the cowboys. Most of Texas is about the cowboys. I think San Antonio cares more about the cowboys than the spurs.
Dallas and Houston are similar sized markets. By GDP and population we are one of the top 5 markets. I don't know why we are labeled middle sized market. We are much bigger than cities like boston and philly. We should have a top 5-7 payroll.
