marlinfan Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I know this may sound weird, but could it be that personal tastes are changing?Take for instance the sports of the ancient civilizations. Many are still around, but not all of those are. What happened to the ones that died out? Will the sports we have today stand the test of time?Right now football is the big numero uno. It hasn't always been that way. Could it be that baseball, which was for so long the undisputed king, is slowly fading?If so, does the game need to change? People put a lot of blame on short attention spans and the like, but is it really the consumers' responsibility to adjust for the sake of the product?Some of these are obvious rhetorical questions, but others are there to provoke thought - I don't have the answers, but it's an interesting idea to think about - how sports may die.But MLB and MiLB has broken it's attendance each of the last few years. If anything the game is as strong or stronger than it's ever been. The game has never been as popular as it is now world-wide. Korea, Japan, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Dominican, etc. are baseball crazy. The game is also becoming more popular in Central America. 1997 | 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 They are just making an excuse to shove more reality TV down our throats, because thats all anybody wants to show now this is a total joke show the games, the reason the raitings are down is theiur are more channles now no other reason oh and the announcers stink. www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitedawg22 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Thank god.Announcer: ...the windup and a 2-2 pitch. Oh, no, wait a minute, the batter is calling for time. Looks like he's going to get himself a new bat. And now there's a beach ball on the field, and the balls boys are discussing which one of them's going to go get it.Homer: [only one not drinking] I never realized how boring this game is!Seriously, though, I love going to baseball games (living 10 minutes from Fenway might have something to do with that), but I hate watching baseball, even playoff baseball, on TV. There is entirely too much dead time, the announcers all suck, especially Buck and McCarver, who seem to do every northeastern game, and the TV just follows the ball without giving an idea of what the other players are doing (my pet peeve with all TV sports).Part of the problem is that the game itself isn't as TV-action-condusive as football or basketball, but it can be improved with several basic fixes:1) Start playoff games at 7 PM local time, like most teams do in the regular season. It's already been beaten into the ground, so I won't discuss it any further.2) Have Fox fire Buck and McCarver. They could make this entertaining by having Buck pretend to get morally outraged at McCarver's unabashed love for all things Yankees and fire him, then have Bill O'Reilly cut off Buck's mic in the middle of his diatribe.3) Reduce delay time between pitches. The batter gets one time-out per at bat, and if the pitcher doesn't throw within 10 seconds of getting the ball back from the catcher, the ump calls it an automatic ball. It would be screwy at first, but I'd bet players would adjust really fast.4) Eliminate the DH. Not only would this reduce game time, but it would actually give the impression that all the players have to play the full game. Novel concept, I know. Plus, there are few things more entertaining than watching Randy Johnson swing awkwardly at a random spot in his 5 foot tall strike zone.5) CREATE A HARD SALARY CAP AND FLOOR. While it's true that low payroll teams have occasional moments of greatness and wealthy ones occasionally suck, the correlation between payroll and winning over the last 5 or 10 years combined is near perfect. The owners and players can figure this out without increasing or decreasing the total salary paid to players. And it would give fans in the great baseball towns of Pittsburgh and Kansas City hope, although it's too late for Montreal. oh ,my god ,i strong recommend you to have a visit on the website ,or if i'm the president ,i would have an barceque with the anthor of the articel . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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