A Sea Of Red

Opening Day seems to get more and more exciting every year. Why? Not sure, but I'm stoked about this years Opening Day. Anyone else think this should be a recognized holiday?

GO REDS!

Kyle Lohse was throwing seeds last night

The one day that baseball is interesting until October.

I would agree with you that it should be a holiday, but you hate me so much that I'll just say no.

Opening Day and The Masters. Watching Sox @ Tigers on MLB.TV while my kids are at cooking class. I'm trying to figure out a way to watch it for the rest of the afternoon without getting fired...

3 games in progress. 2 hours later, and nobody has still yet scored a run.

Lucky for me, the Masters is this weekend. I'd rather cut my finger on a thorn bush and pour lemon juice in it while watching grass grow than watch baseball. That sport is dying rappidly.

cjsweat wrote:Lucky for me, the Masters is this weekend. I'd rather cut my finger on a thorn bush and pour lemon juice in it while watching grass grow than watch baseball. That sport is dying rappidly.

The fact that you watch golf on TV shows me your ignorance.

Other than the majors, watching golf is like watching paint dry. I'd much rather go out and play it.

Mets finally score to break the drought.

jbock13 wrote:

cjsweat wrote:Lucky for me, the Masters is this weekend. I'd rather cut my finger on a thorn bush and pour lemon juice in it while watching grass grow than watch baseball. That sport is dying rappidly.

The fact that you watch golf on TV shows me your ignorance.

Other than the majors, watching golf is like watching paint dry. I'd much rather go out and play it.

I play golf at least 3 times a week on top of watching it. Next to football, it's my favorite sport to watch on T.V. With all the story lines this year, it's increasingly interesting. NFL preseason games have better ratings than the World Series. Why on earth would I care about baseball? I even played high school baseball and I can't stand to watch it.

cjsweat wrote:That sport is dying rappidly.

your credibility in knowing anything about sports on here is dying rapidly.

RubberMallet wrote:

cjsweat wrote:That sport is dying rappidly.

your credibility in knowing anything about sports on here is dying rapidly.

Not really.

cjsweat wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:

cjsweat wrote:That sport is dying rappidly.

your credibility in knowing anything about sports on here is dying rapidly.

Not really.

You are right. It's already dead!

MLB is the only sport giving away tickets outside of collegiate curling. How on earth could you think the sport isn't dying?

$3.36 to watch the good LA franchise play.

http://www.stubhub.com/los-angeles-ange ... 2-2095550/

$4.44 to watch the Yankess play Texas.

http://www.stubhub.com/texas-rangers-ti ... 2-2468173/

Starting to get expensive...$10.41 to watch the Red Sox on a Sunday!

http://www.stubhub.com/boston-red-sox-t ... 2-2046168/

NFL tickets aren't available yet but I bet you even the cheapest Jacksonville ticket sells for $20.

their revenue grows year after year after year. its also the only sport that plays 160 games a year.

RubberMallet wrote: its also the only sport that plays 160 games a year.

Exactly why it's terrible. The most popular sport in the country is NFL which has 16 games, MLB's ratings have been dropping every year since 02 and it has the most games.

Just shut up already.

I think it's funny when people try to compare sports, because, you really can't.

Obviously different tastes come into play.

But there is no denying that attendance & TV numbers are falling and at an increasingly rapid rate. If you need any further evidence of how sick the game has become you have to look no further than where I live. And Houston is a top ten media market with a terrific ballpark.

Notice how baseball stadiums hold around 40,000. And basketball and hockey stadiums at 20,000. Care to explain that one sweaty?

jbock13 wrote:Notice how baseball stadiums hold around 40,000. And basketball and hockey stadiums at 20,000. Care to explain that one sweaty?

Yeah, basketball and hockey are inside sports. Have fun trying to fit 40,000 people inside...Secondly, notice how NFL stadiums hold 75,000-100,000? Care to explain that one? haha.

ALUmnus wrote:I think it's funny when people try to compare sports, because, you really can't.

Why not? MLB used to overwhelmingly be the most popular sport in the country and now it's overwhelmingly not. The Super Bowl sets the record for the most watched T.V. event in history every year. Why can't you compare that?

Also, MLB should be writing love letters to the NHL because they're the only reason that baseball hasn't slipped into the 4th most popular sport.

ALUmnus wrote:I think it's funny when people try to compare sports, because, you really can't.

yeah pretty much impossible.

football is always going to have more % of tickets sold just on availablility alone. you have much less chance of going. to use that as some sort of basis is totally laughable.

and the superbowl has been breaking its own record since its inception. it was the most watched thing even when baseball was #1. it has no basis on the conversation at all.

RubberMallet wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:I think it's funny when people try to compare sports, because, you really can't.

yeah pretty much impossible.

football is always going to have more % of tickets sold just on availablility alone. you have much less chance of going. to use that as some sort of basis is totally laughable.

and the superbowl has been breaking its own record since its inception.

It's actually not when you're charging $5.00 per game. What's laughable is major league baseball.