"One day. That’s all I ask. Please, for all that is good in this world, give me a 24-hour moratorium on the breathless talk about Major League Baseball’s television ratings and the doom they portend."
How meta of you.
It's like one of those infinite mirrors.
A man writes about a 24-hour moratorium on the talk about MLB's television ratings, thus ending said moratorium.
"In the middle of the most compelling World Series in a decade, one of the overriding themes is that nobody is watching.
And to those people, all I have to say is: Sorry, suckers. You’re missing something great."
I definitely don't believe this is he most compelling World Series in a decade, but that's not really the point. A sporting match is compelling if you have an emotional interest in the outcome.
"Earlier this week, in an interview with Bob Costas, commissioner Bud Selig said television ratings 'are always a concern.' To which I reply: Why? Why does anybody aside from Rupert Murdoch and his minions at Fox give a thousandth of a whoop about how many people watch the games?"
Well, Bud Selig should care, for obvious reasons.
"Why does baseball insist on comparing itself to the NFL?"
You've got a point there. NFL wins in America.
"Should MLB continue on its current path, where national TV viewership stagnates, hopefully the league will learn to embrace its strengths and not concern itself with indicators that don’t reflect the game’s true state. It has labor peace. It has great storylines. It has fantastic players. It has a wonderful product.
If people don’t want to watch, fine. Their loss."
I agree with some of the points, but I don't understand the contempt for the fans.
Of course Selig wants to have high ratings. Low ratings may be a portend of bad things to come. But it's not the people's fault for being disinterested.
If people don't want to watch, not fine.
If enough people don't want to watch, Jeff Passan will need to find a new job.
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