Seems like people like baseball
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Aug 11, 2009 
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This from ESPN:
ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecast featuring the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees delivered an average of 4,698,000 viewers and 3,427,000 households to become the most-viewed MLB game on the network since June 3, 2007.
The corresponding 3.5 rating was the highest since the Yankees and Red Sox equaled the number September 16, 2007. ESPN’s telecast was the most viewed of the four-game series, outperforming the closest telecast by 19 percent among viewers, and the most-viewed MLB regular season game to date in 2009 (cable or broadcast).
The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 5-2 to complete a four-game sweep at Yankee Stadium. The telecast generated a 12.3 metered market rating in Boston and a 10.3 in New York.
So glad we won that game then! It’s a Yankee Universe, the Red Sox just live in it.
is it time yet Erica?
Bet they’re gald they watched. An excellent game.
Baseball lives here.
It’s time for another thrilling round of “Guess the Line Up”!!!
Please post your line-ups to me here (or on any new threads that pop up). Do NOT post on any old threads once Pete posts a new one (I will miss it). Also, you must post line ups with 9 players and positions. Anything else will be disregarded. Always check to make sure you are on the list of line ups submitted that I post on new threads.
TRY TO BEAT JOE GIRARDI TODAY!
Why yes, yes it is Miss Upstate Kate
The Friday night game on the YES Network was also the second highest rated telecast in the history of the network.
Erica-
Jeter – SS
Damon – Lf
Tex – 1b
A-Rod – 3b
Matsui – DH
Posada – C
Cano – 2b
Hinske – Rf
Cabrera – Cf
SS Jeter
LF Damon
1B Tex
3B AROD
DH Matsui
C Posada
2B Cano
RF Swish
CF Melk
what was the event on June 3rd 2007 that garnered higher ratings?
June 3rd, 2007 was the game where A-Rod hit that HR off Papelbon in Fenway.
Even Neyer said after that game, “People complain we cover the Yankees and Red Sox too much, but the fact is that’s what people watch.”
And it’s always a good game, rarely a blowout. Could be a slugfest or a pitcher’s duel, but they usually match blow for blow.
Well the final game was excellent. The Friday game was an all time classic.
Jeter ss
Damon lf
Teix 1b
matsui dh
Posada c
Cano 2b
Swisher rf
hairston 3b
Melkman cf
Erica
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira DH
Rodriguez 3B
Posada C
Swisher 1B
Canó 2B
Hinske RF
Cabrera CF
SS the Captain (I was wrong about him needing rest)
LF Erica’s PBF
1B Texeriffic
DH Godzilla
C Jorge
2B Robbie
CF Melky
RF Hinske
3B Hairston
Time for Arod to have the night off
June 3rd 07 – A-Rod’s HR off Papelbon
Sept 16th 07 – Clemens vs. Schilling in Fenway
Not bad company to be in, those were great games.
Erica:
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Tex 1b
A-Rod 3b
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2b
Hinske RF
Melky CF
Guess the Line Up ends today at 3:40. Any submissions after will be disregarded
“what was the event on June 3rd 2007 that garnered higher ratings?”
Probably an NBA playoff game?
Erica,
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira DH
Rodriguez 3B
Posada C
Swisher 1B
Cano 2B
Cabrera CF
Hinske RF
Yesterday Cowherd was downplaying the viewership, saying the Bills v Titans game drew better than the NYY v Red Sox game. Wonder where he gets his #s?
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Tex 1B
A Rod 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Cabrera CF
Erica -
Jeter SS
)
Damon LF
Teixiera 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Pena CF (its time to try him out there, and im being unique
M.Kay’s sidekick, Don, still talking Mets! Michael, do you know what goes on when you aren’t there?!
Time for Joba to end our uhh, losing streak.
So I guess a lot of people were asking “Who is this old Spanish guy and what in the world is he saying ? “
jeter ss
damon lf
tex 1b
arod dh
po c
cano 2b
swish rf
hairston 3b
melky cf
birthday boy cf
damon lf
tex 1b
arod 3b
matsui dh
posada c
cano 2b
swisher rf
pena ss
Yesterday Cowherd was downplaying the viewership, saying the Bills v Titans game drew better than the NYY v Red Sox game. Wonder where he gets his #s?”
cowherd is a huge football guy and not much of a baseball fan… hes the guy to listen to about bug college football games and NFL playoffs… not the guy to listen to about baseball
I think the majority of those people tuned in just to see Luis Tiant.
Jeter ss
Damon lf
Teix 1b
arod dh
Po c
Cano 2b
Hinske rf
Hairton 3b
melky cf
I’ll try switching it up a little…
Jeter DH
Damon LF
Teix 1B
Alex 3B
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Melky CF
Pena SS
Pete,
I think you need a “Guess the Lineup” thread.
I’m not joking. It’s snowballing!
is today Melky’s birthday?
There’s honestly not much to discuss except our only somewhat flaw in Mitre. It feels great to try and look for things to criticize about this team and you really just…can’t.
Rishi -
Yes.
Hey Erica
Here is my guess
Jeter. DH
Damon LF
Tex. 1B
Alex. 3B
Posada. C
Robbie 2B
Hinski RF
Melky. CF
Hairston SS
Thanks
Jeter ss
damon LF
Teix 1b
Arod 3b
Matsui DH
Po Ca
Cano 2b
Swisher RF
Melky CF
Damon LF
Swisher RF
Tex 1b
A-rod 3b
Posada C
Matsui DH
Cano 2b
Melky CF
Pena SS
I Rip 1
August 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Huge Jass
August 11th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I know you are the same person and I am ignoring you
If the Yanks had won last night, today would have been the perfect opportunity to give A-Rod a full day off. Alas, such is not the case.
Win tonight and maybe tomorrow afternoon let the guy rest?
Cowherd only talks baseball because he has to now that he was re-assigned to 1050 New York when Kellerman left. He feels he needs to do something to get listeners from NY so he pretends to like baseball even though he hates it.
Great Game on ESPN, but horrible horrible commentating. There is a Red Sox vs Yankees game going on and the Morgan, Miller & Philips are ignoring the game for 3 innings talking to Luis Tiant. They were completing ignoring the game. I know they wanted to plug “Lost Son of Havana” but seriously so annoying. Anyway…
ss- Jeter
lf- Damon
1b- Tex
3b- Arod
DH- Matsui
c- Posada
2b- Cano
rf- hinske
cf- hairston
“hes the guy to listen to about bug college football games and NFL playoffs”
He had some interesting things to say about the midge game too.
4.6 mil for a nationally televised game isnt exactly good. To be honest, I’m shocked that number equals the most watched game of the year. I understand its cable, but almost every home has ESPN. It’s not like the game was on HBO.
Damon
Jeter
Teix
Posada
Matsui
Cano
Cabrera
Hinske
Pena
Cowherd is one who will twist things to his own point of view, no matter what other information out there says.
He talks football on just about every show.
jeter dh
cano 2b
Teix 1b
Damon LF
Swisher rf
Melky cf
Hairston 3b
Pena ss
Molina C
wow. Listening to Francessa interview someone, talking about Woodstock, makes me want to have been there.
not.
K-Zone
August 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Damon
Jeter
Teix
Posada
Matsui
Cano
Cabrera
Hinske
Pena
****
POSITIONS!
“m
August 11th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Pete,
I think you need a “Guess the Lineup” thread.
I’m not joking. It’s snowballing!”
That would be great. I can’t stand having to scroll through all the lineup guesses. Seems kind of pointless to me, but if it floats your boat…
Erica, would you accept a submission from I.P. Freely?
I think all National radio shows are brutal
So are 1st and 10, PTI, ATH etc.
Not only are all their analysts uninformed, everything they say will turn off part of the country. Baseball will turn off the South. College football will turn off the East, etc.
Skip Bayless is now officially unistenable. I used to watch him, but I’ve finally stopped (I’m sure eventually I’ll get curious and watch again though).
Before the series started vs. Boston, Boston was the better team and they were going to win 3 of 4.
Then they lost game 1. But no matter. Boston was the better team and they’d still split.
Fast forward to Monday after the sweep.
Boston was swept, 6.5 games out…and he STILL picked the Sox to win the division. More than that, he picked the Yankees OUT of the playoffs!
Not to mention despite him just absolutely worshipping Boston and Tampa Bay anybody who thijnks the Yankees are better is clearly a closet Yankee fan and doesn’t look at things objectively.
He’s worse than Francessa.
What the hell did I do?
Sorry! lol
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Teix 1B
Posada C
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Cabrera RF
Hinske LF
Pena 3B
unistenable is unlistenable.
Nick in SF in Larkspur
August 11th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Erica, would you accept a submission from I.P. Freely?
***
LOL. Forget “Guess the Line Up”. We can play “Guess Which Finger I am Holding Up” if you’d like
I thinks she thinks your me. LOL
Thanks, Ed
m August 11th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Pete,
I think you need a “Guess the Lineup” thread.
I’m not joking. It’s snowballing!
================
We don’t need that at all.
Jetes SS ( you’re right, UpstateKate, we were wrong about him needing a day yesterday, maybe tomorrow?)
Swish 1B
Damon LF
Alex 3B
Matusi DH
Jorge C
Cano 2B
The Birthday Boy CF
Hinske RF
Jeter SS
Damon LF
A Rod 3B
Tex 1B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Melky CF
Hinske RF
Jorge Arangure Jr. makes a pretty good point: taking on Rios’ contract may take the White Sox out of the bidding war for Aroldis Chapman.
didnt trust me rishi?
damon 7
cabrera 8
tex 3
alex 5
matsui x
posada 2
cano 4
hinske 9
pena 6
You know what’s sad? Nationally, the Hall of Fame game, an NFL football preseason game, destroyed the Yankees/Red Sox on Sunday in terms of ratings. Do I want to live in a world where that happens?
he will want the A line up in as Girardi will be afraid to lose again.
Jeter ss
Damon lf
Tex 1b
Arod 3b
Po C
Matsui DH
Cano 2b
Swisher rf
Melky CF
Erica,
Jetes ss
Damon LF
Tex 1B
Alex 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Henke RF
Cabrera CF
Henke RF
===========
Who Henke?
Erica-
Jeter DH
Damon LF
Texeira 1b
A-Rod 3b
Posada C
Cano 2b
Hinske RF
Cabrera CF
Pena SS
Thanks.
Hensley Muellens Blast Pal
August 11th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
didnt trust me rishi?
————————————-
Did you answer and I missed it? Sorry – scanning the posts between work things…
You folks have some crazy line ups today
The dude who farted is still banned
“You know what’s sad? Nationally, the Hall of Fame game, an NFL football preseason game, destroyed the Yankees/Red Sox on Sunday in terms of ratings. Do I want to live in a world where that happens”
where do you actually live?
if you live in the south, NASCAR is king. Not something i’d wish on a person i like
haha no worries
Sure, the statistics may say the Yanks have a 95-98% chance of making the playoffs, but those computers obviously have a Yankee bias. :crazy face:
Bayless is obviously pandering to the Yankee-haters. Just ignore him.
Seriously, with Yankees-Red Sox on I had no idea there was a preseason game even on.
thanks Erica- quite a variety of line ups already, hopefully we beat Girardi today.
maybe Melky can have some pie for his birthday…
“4.6 mil for a nationally televised game isnt exactly good. To be honest, I’m shocked that number equals the most watched game of the year. I understand its cable, but almost every home has ESPN. It’s not like the game was on HBO.”
As hard as it is to believe, not everyone who has ESPN is a baseball fan. Even worse, many of those who do get ESPN hate BOS-NYY games so they weren’t going to watch to begin with. I guarantee you that none of my Cubs or WS friends watched Sunday’s game.
Jeter ss
Damon lf
Teix 1b
matsui dh
Posada c
Cano 2b
Melky cf
Swisher rf
hairston 3b
Anyone who doesn’t have Nick Swisher in their lineup has already lost.
two words: man crush.
jeter ss
damon lf
tex 1b
posada c
matsui dh
cano 2b
melky cf
hinkse rf
pena 3b
“Yesterday Cowherd was downplaying the viewership, saying the Bills v Titans game drew better than the NYY v Red Sox game. Wonder where he gets his #s?”
http://sportsmediawatch.blogsp.....el/Ratings
Damon LF
Jeter SS
A-Rod DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Cabrera CF
Hinske LF
Pena 3B
Erica, here is my lineup. I’m feeling lucky today. I’m going to win Guess the Lineup and Mega Millions tonight.
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Texeira 1B
A-Rod 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Cabrera CF
I am really losing patience-
If you have a bodily function or a metaphor for a bodily function in your handle. You are not playing.
Don’t ruin the game for people who really like it. Just quit it
Damon LF
Swisher RF
Teixeria 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Pena SS
Question for you guys: Do you think Tex will be a HOF’er by the end of his career barring injuries?
Laura-
If you win mega millions will you share with me? I bought my tickets an hour ago
Joe Girardi’s dream lineup:
Swisher SS
Swisher 2B
Swisher 1B
Swisher DH
Swisher 3B
Swisher CF
Swisher LF
Swisher RF
Swisher C
Swisher SP
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Teixeria 1B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Cabrera CF
Pena 3B
Erica,
My lineup.
Jeter ss
Damon lf
Tex 1b
Arod 3b
Matsui dh
Posada c
Cano 2b
Swisher rf
Melky cf
I know football’s a big deal, but I don’t think about it until the season begins. And even then I only think about it on game day. It’s 16 games. The rest of the days are filler, and it’s boring.
Even in the off season they fill hours and hours of talk radio interviewing people from training camp. Even more hours are spent talking about who’s holding out. Hey, Crabtree! No play, no pay! Just give me a well played football game with a dubya for my team, and I’m perfectly happy.
I never play but I’ll take a shot –
2B – Clarke
SS – Michael
LF – White
CF – Murcer
C – Munson
RF – Woods
3B – Cox
1B – Boehmer
P – Bahnsen
Laura, when a preseason football game between the Titans and Bills (not exactly national powers in terms of popularity) crushes the best rivalry in baseball, there is a major problem.
Not to mention we’re talking about a Sunday night during the summer, when there’s no original programming on regular television.
I love baseball, obviously. But the ratings decline is very troubling.
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher LB
Cabrera CF
Erica here is my lineup guess:
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Cabrera CF
Steve-
You have two left fielders
PLEASE be careful when submitting line ups
“If you win mega millions will you share with me? I bought my tickets an hour ago”
Sorry, Erica. I’m not sharing my ticket with anyone; not even my family. That being said, I may be talked into giving out some monetary gifts.
Wait till-
If he can get 500 homers,or close to 3000 hits,then maybe.
“Laura, when a preseason football game between the Titans and Bills (not exactly national powers in terms of popularity) crushes the best rivalry in baseball, there is a major problem.”
We’ve been seeing that Football has been America’s sport for awhile now. You can thank the ’95 strike for that I guess. I’m not worried about it. Enough people still love baseball to keep it thriving.
Erica,
SS Jeter
LF Damon
1B Tex
3B A-Rod
DH Matsui
C Posada
2B Cano
RF Hinske
CF Cabrera
I actually hate football season. I love football. But I only get to watch the games on Sunday. The rest of the week I just try not to go totally crazy.
The only way I could stop myself from losing it was to watch hockey, which took the place of baseball. The only problem was that I was a Devils’ fan and I only got Flyers and Rangers games most of the time. I thought aboutswitchng teams but I couldn’t do it. To me it’s sort of like swbetrayng my country and fighting with another nation. The idea is repellant.
Finally near the end of the season I found a website that streamed in Devils’ games for free, so for the final bit of the season I got to watch the Devils. Now I’ll be able to watch them all year. Between the Devils nd Giants I should survive during the offseason.
Igawa dh
Swisher! 2b
Kim Jones 1b
Beningo LF
Micheal Kay rf
Francesa cf
Waldman 3b
Berroa ss
Sterling C
Carl Pavano SP
Sorry Laura – there is no comparison between baseball and football.
Check the ratings when the regular season begins. See how many people even consider putting on the ESPN Sunday night game over Sunday Night Football.
When you find it LOL-funny that someone keeps on annoying Erica with scatalogical screen names and she keeps finding it annoying…you probably need to give yourself a time out.
And by ‘you’ I mean ‘me’. I just can’t help it.
Victor:
Please oh please tell me there is something that will eventually turn off basketball in the south. I beg you man!
If you want you can throw in golf and soccer too.
“Finally near the end of the season I found a website that streamed in Devils’ games for free, so for the final bit of the season I got to watch the Devils. Now I’ll be able to watch them all year. Between the Devils nd Giants I should survive during the offseason.”
This was the first year since I was in high school I could watch the Devils on TV.
Oh, how I’d missed it!
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Tex 1B
Arod 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Canrera CF
TY!!!
Nick in SF-
Has that been you the whole time???
Jeter – SS
Damon – Lf
Tex – 1b
A-Rod – 3b
Matsui – DH
Posada – C
Cano – 2b
Hinske – Rf
Cabrera – Cf
I like watching golf, but only during the majors. It is a shockingly exciting game (I refuse to use the word sport).Not can’t-miss TV, but more interesting than a lot of people think.
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Tex 1B
Posada C
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Melky CF
Hinske RF
Hairston 3B
“Sorry Laura – there is no comparison between baseball and football.”
I didn’t say that there was. I said that football has become America’s sport. But just because it is, that doesn’t mean that baseball is going to just wither away and die.
The best one was yesterday he went as “i floated an air biscuit”. I mean, not that it was funny how he ruined Guess the Lineup, but…
That was a good one.
Football is really America’s National Pastime. Sorry baseball.
Baseball is my personal favorite but football has become more popular.
It’s a very, very small sample size-17 total at bats. However, the Yankees have a .529 cumalitive BA against Scott Richmond.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....erId=29197
Erica: no, you misunderstood. It hasn’t been me ever (I don’t do phony screen names), it just makes me laugh.
Damon – LF
Swisher – RF
Tex – 1B
A Rod – 3B
Matsui – DH
Posada – C
Cano – 2B
Cabrera – CF
Pena – SS
Andrew
August 11th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
The best one was yesterday he went as “i floated an air biscuit”. I mean, not that it was funny how he ruined Guess the Lineup, but…
***
I swear, if I didn’t like Nick I would go to SF just to strangle him. LOL
SS-Jeter
LF-Damon
1b-tex
3b-arod
DH-Matsui
C-Posada
2b-Cano
Rf-Hinske
Cf-Melky
All Nick did was laugh.
scatalogical humor is always good for a giggle.
that’s actually not that great a number compared w/ College Football and NFL ratings but great compared to any other baseball matchup….
Stultus Magnus
August 11th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
All Nick did was laugh.
***
Okay, then I will not dream of strangulation
The Yankees are having their second kangaroo court before today’s game.
and the devils suck.
For the sake of argument:
What is the difference between a game and a sport? is there one?
“Question for you guys: Do you think Tex will be a HOF’er by the end of his career barring injuries?”
Baseballreference.com shows his that his closest comp thru the age 29 is Carlos Delgado. The numbers are very similar, though Teixeira’s not done yet. After age 29, Delgado went on to post 7 seasons (2002 – ’08) of a .920 OPS, in which he averaged 34 homers and 112 rbi.
Delgado has a small, yet impressive, postseason resume that he will not likely be building on. He also wasn’t near the glove man Teixeira is. I don’t think he’s an HOF’er. I think Teixeira could be, but it’ll require him posting something close to monster years thru the end of his contract and perhaps beyond…which is certainly possible.
Damon – LF
Swisher – RF
Tex – 1B
A Rod – 3B
Matsui – DH
Posada – C
Cano – 2B
Cabrera – CF
Pena – SS
Erica I am sorry.
Who wants to hear Colin Cowherd talk about Favre, Vick, Tony Romo’s love life etc. in August?
Here’s who is in so far for “Guess the Line Up”
Ramey, WTWVTSC, Miggs, Ed H, Andrew, Evan D, William Buckner, A Ness, MikeBoston (same)
Adam, Wampa One, Laura, BBFan, IDCWYT (same)
Heywood Jablome
Rebecca
Upstate Kate
David
Ed
Hensley Muellens
Brandon W, CM
Fran
Jerome from the Southeast
Jude
The Shocker
KZone
NYY626
Jeff NJ
Henner
Ralphie D
Cando
DETx2
NYY Roc
NYYFan, Trafed Eve
For the sake of arguement, I’ve always considred a sport different from a game because I always thought that for a sport you needed some physical skill. You can be fat and old and out of shape and be a competitive golfer; the same, except in the case of certain pitchers, isn’t true for baseball.
The Devils played in the greatest NHL postseason series of all time vs. the Canes’, but nobody noticed because NJ and Carolina are small markets.
jeter dh
cano 2b
Teix 1b
Damon LF
Swisher rf
Melky cf
Hairston 3b
Pena ss
Molina C
football is the new ‘back to school sales’… it depresses me because it’s a sign that summer is coming to an end. and eventually, i get into it like everyone else…
The lineup in crossword clue form:
Captain intangibles ?
Our shared Boyfriend ?
Current AL HR leader ?
Mr. Kate Hudson ?
Hip Hop of Truth ?
Friend of Mothra ? DH
Dontcha Know ?
No rim – All net ?
Peanuts and Porn Stars ?
“You can be fat and old and out of shape and be a competitive golfer; the same, except in the case of certain pitchers, isn’t true for baseball.”
You making fun of me, pencil neck???
“You can be fat and old and out of shape and be a competitive golfer”
actually george foreman is fat and old and out of shape and he would still knock the crap out of you even though you are not fat and not old and presumably not out of shape.
watch with the old jokes.
gb7 might be insulted
“Question for you guys: Do you think Tex will be a HOF’er by the end of his career barring injuries?”
Do you still think he will be MVP this year?
Ernest Hemingway: “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
Mr. Sabathia, I mentioned no names.
Oh, I never aid I wasn’t fat, old, or out of shape. I just don’t play sports.
I never thought Tex would be MVP. I think it’ll be Mauer. At least, Mauer deserves it.
Becca
Heywood Jablowme is not a real name. “Hey would you blow me” Is what it stands for. Being a grade school gym teacher I get that one a lot.
“CountryClub August 11th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Laura, when a preseason football game between the Titans and Bills (not exactly national powers in terms of popularity) crushes the best rivalry in baseball, there is a major problem.
Not to mention we’re talking about a Sunday night during the summer, when there’s no original programming on regular television.
I love baseball, obviously. But the ratings decline is very troubling.”
I find it troubling also, I’m not a football hater like some that post, I love Football(College and NFL) and I love baseball…..but baseball’s popularity is really dropping like a rock outside of the North East…I think most of the blame has to go the way the league is structured and the pace of the game is too slow for many casual fans….most people can sit down and watch over 8 football games between Saturday or Sunday in the Fall but in baseball a fan will usually just follow their own team or rival in the division(talking about the casual baseball fan, not fanatic)
7.9mil for a meaningless Pre season game vs 4.7mil for the biggest rivalry in baseball is something that needs to be looked into to improve nationwide interest..
rover
August 11th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
For the sake of argument:
What is the difference between a game and a sport? is there one?
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if you can casually drink a beer while playing, it’s a game. hence the following are games of skill, not sports:
golf
darts
badminton
horse
billiards
bowling
nascar
horseshoes
quoits
poker (though espn loves airing this… look at those atheletes!! smoking cigars!!)
Gonna try this lineup thing out Erica.
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixiera 1B
Rodriguez DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Hinske RF
Hairston Jr 3B
Cabrera CF
Ok here’s my official version.
Jeter ss
Damon lb
tex 1b
arod 3b
Matsui dh
Posada c
Cano 2b
Swish rf
Melky cf
No new line ups here!!!!
Oh, I doubt everyone was watching for the Yankees VS Red Sox. They were watching to see Luis Tiant…at least, that’s what I assumed from the fact that the announcers spent a full inning completely ignoring the game and not even showing all the pitches.
I do not know if this has a huge impact on the ratings, but does anyone else hate that the Sunday Night game starts after 8pm? Who the hell wants to stay up to at least 11pm with Monday, the worst morning of the week looming around the corner? Not to mention that NY/BOS games routinely go till at least midnight when they play the Sunday night game.
yeah BR they should start at 7 in my opinion
The athlete afraid of failure almost always chooses something other than baseball. It is the only sport I can think of where personal failure is so easily recognized.
And where success is so easily take for granted.
What’s amazing about this is that we put up with the worst game commentators in history to watch it: I am referring, of course, to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, who spend the game talking about themselves and/or arcane history and generally ignore the game. Sometimes the camera stays on them and ignores the game too. I’ve written to ESPN twice so far about it, but obviously nobody but me cares. Anybody who does, let me know via my blog or email.
no peopel like it cuz of twilight
no peopel like it cuz of twilight