Baseball has broken their attendance records each of the last 4 years. Last year the average attendance was 32,000+. Not too shabby especially with the length of the season. Baseball will continue to be a dominant sport with the fans.
and they did the unthinkable, nearly matching NFL revenues at $4 billion. i don't like survivor...never watched an episode....just because i didn't like it doesn't mean it's not popular.
Exactly. I don't like baseball until the postseason starts but I realize it is still a successful business. I believe their are some bad supporting markets that baseball is in but almost every league has those except for the NFL but you only get to see an NFL game 8 times a year, if that.
Roy O looked average, but he tends to get better as the season progresses, so I'm not worried. Peavy showed his Cy Young arm off and dominated.
You know what was fun though? Going into Survivor threads, even though I didn't watch it or like it, and tell people how much what they liked sucked. I like doing that because I'm a complete *******.
please give link to the survivor boards, im a fan lol i read unofficialsurvivorguide dot com , but would like more
How long have the Brewers been batting their pitcher 8th and letting their catcher bat 9th? I've never seen that done before but always wondered.
I remember the Cardinals doing it a few years ago, but don't recall the Brewers doing it last season.
They have done it in their first 2 games this year. They have never done it in their entire history prior to this year. I wonder what Jason Kendall thinks about that.
I like going to Astros games. We bought tickets for the astros vs. yankees and redsocks instead of opening day.
Jacksonville was ahead of teams like Dallas, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh in average and total attendance during the 2007 season. No team in the NFL last year averaged less than 57,000 fans per home game while baseball had 3 teams average below 20,000 per home game but like I said it's a different animal. There are 81 home games in MLB and only 8 for NFL.
Both the Cards & Brewers announced in ST that this was their plan for the season. Depending on how you set up your lineup, it can make some sense.
And how was J-ville the year before, or over the past few years? Weren't they tarping over thousands of seats to cut the stadium capacity so their home games would be on TV?
I am hoping so much to see Detroit and Seattle make the playoffs along with Boston and Cleveland. I'm not counting on it though as the Yankees will find some way to make it into the postseason. But both the Tigers' team and the Mariners' team really intrigue me. Should be some great races in the AL.
I'm sure this is a fluke, and I am knowingly jinxing them at this very moment, but the Nationals started off the season 3-0 and our currently up 5-0 on the Phillies in the 3rd inning. Go Nats! Ryan F'n Zimmerman baby! What a player.
He should like it - because it makes him the "leadoff" hitter for the top of the lineup, instead of being pitched around for the pitcher. The Astros should be doing this when Kaz is back. The Cards did it with Mark McGwire - to have more people on base for him without moving him from the #3 spot to the #4 spot. Statistically, it's been shown to be increase runs scored, I believe, because all your better hitters (1-4) are a bit more likely to have someone on base. In the Astros case, after the first inning, it makes Pence the equivalent of a #3 hitter with Kaz/Bourn in front of him - but without pushing everyone down in the order and costing them at bats over the season.
