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You can draw a direct line from the creation of this tournament to the trump presidency imo
Because none of that is based in March 2017 reality...? Or do you have some credible links to the contrary? I'd be glad to read and discuss.
This event is still very much in its infancy. It's the 4th edition of something that was literally contrived out of thin air a little over a decade ago. It has a great concept and could be a wonderful global celebration of a game that most of us love around here. I just can't understand why people seemingly want to see it fail.
My point has nothing to do with the quality of MLBN which is great. What I meant is that sports leagues are in the business of selling their rights for fees. Espn paid 7-9M for the rights to the World Cup of Hockey. There would be no reason for MLB to keep this in-house on their network unless nobody wanted to purchase the rights, or at least at a price that they thought was appropriate.
I don't know. Maybe they think it's a good way to promote their game and network by keeping it in house. Same reason nfl network broadcasts Thursday night games no?
A million viewers isn't great, but it is an increase. Would've been more on espn, no doubt.
NFLN has way more homes though I believe. I was in a hotel last night and they didn't carry MLBN, but they did have the NFL. I can't imagine they did that on purpose, but maybe?
Sorry, that doesn't make any sense. The most recent numbers I found shows espn in 92M homes, FS1 in 84M and MLBN in 68 (I am sure this has changed some, it looks a little old). Why wouldn't they want one of their premier events in front of as many eyeballs as possible? They just decided not to make money off this and have it shown to 25M less people?
Well it will be interesting to see what happens in the future.
Exactly. MLB is trying to build the brand and March Madness is an established product, they are already locked into.
I'm kind of tired of this topic but come on man. This thing is never gonna compete with the NCAA tournament. That's just stilly.
Because no matter how hot on the tail of the NCAA tourney it is, they really don't want to go up against it for ratings.
I turned it off around the time of this post for this reason. It was going late and it was really dragging, even in a good, tight game.
Wouldn't there be risk of injury, especially for those teams "in the hunt" for the post season? I've already heard of teams worrying about pre-season injuries with the WBC. Why would clubs allow their "star" players to play in this over the ASB? It doesn't make sense. I like the appeal, and agree it would provide good tv, but I just don't see teams/players all jumping in for this in the middle of the season.
Less risk than now when they have to ramp up early and perform in high-pressure situations sooner than normal.
the baseball season is a 'grind'. i'm guessing most players want that ASB to relax and prepare to stand around for 3 hours a day for another 81 games.
I'm at lunch w/ nothing better to do so I checked the dates of the NPB and KBO all-star games. They're also held in mid-July but about a week following MLB's game. NPB plays a two game series on Fri-Sat in two different ballparks. The Asian players would probably need two travel/acclimatization days on either ends of the games.
