Selig Serious About Expanding Playoffs

And yet, one sport is sailing along and the other is headed for a work stoppage. That would seem to suggest one has found its business model and the other hasn't.

 

Tell me how can baseball rely on anything but local markets when there are 15 games A DAY, not 16 games once a week? How are you getting every baseball game into a National TV package, the way you can with a once-a-week sport.
Do you think bad TV ratings for Texas-San Fran is going to affect fan bases in Minnesota, Chicago, Philly, et al?

Simply a different business model. And baseball is not dying.

 

Can't Selig and Goodell be assigned one-way tickets to darkest Africa, with no resources on tap for a return trip? Insatiable greedheads.

 

C'mon Ben. Who connected with any professional sport in America is not insatiably greedy?

 

There are different ways to go about achieving the same goal. Why not raise ticket price and
concession prices through the roof? . . . oh . . . wait . . .

NBA? Contraction? I know it's a scare tactic by Sternsy, but, please God.

 

I want to see the worst NFL Sunday night game ever like Jaguars vs. Bills going head to head with Game 7 of a Yankees Dodgers World Series.

It would probably be pretty close.

 

Yes, Game 4 was beaten by Sunday football. But Game 5 beat Monday football. It's not like there are no baseball fans out there.

 

And baseball has an inferior model, perpetrated by a system that creates the reality and perception of a stacked deck favoring some markets over others. Even if you disagree, you have to acknowledge that the perception is there and it hurts baseball in small markets. Football fans believe their teams have a fair shot. Not all baseball fans believe that.

Make all the excuses you want. Football passed baseball in popularity in part because of this model you love so much.

 

Because the owners believe, with good reason, that they can strong-arm the players into giving them what they want and continue rolling along with far more success than baseball.

If the baseball owners actually believed they could win, I guarantee they would do the exact same thing.

 

Cut 20 games from the regular season, and this can work.

 

Scant chance of that.

 

After the next contract, the playoffs will be on Versus.