Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
Nah, manfred completely botched the cheating scandal. This is an isolated incident for silver and to a large extent, not easy ones to solve. Manfred does stupid shit every single year. Like when he created rules midseason around using sticky substances and pitchers were blowing their arms out left and right. And the mlb has problems of their own with way too many strikeouts and lack of offense. But long term manfreds desire for NY/LA media markets is going to destroy the game. The way LA has built a superteam off deferred contracts is gonna be really bad for the game for a while.
Cheating scandal? Who cares? I just assume most of the organizations are cheating or bending the rules in some way anyway.
There’s also nothing he’s gonna do that is gonna prevent major markets from dominating baseball as long as there is no salary cap (and there won’t be considering the power of the MLBPA).
I’m mainly worried about the watchability of that sport and he’s taken significant steps to fix it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
And America disagrees.
Those NFL games were uncompetitive trash today compared to that Lakers/Warriors game (and likely always will be if the NFL keeps doing them on weekdays) but I have no doubt the ratings will be there. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
Andrew Wiggins is a bum and a waste.
Basically always was outside of a Finals run where he was the MVP of your washed team when they beat the Celtics. You should be grateful to him. [Reply]
The NBA delivered its most-watched Christmas Day in five years, with viewership up 84% vs. last year across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Disney+ and ESPN+. The NBA on Christmas Day averaged 5.25 million viewers per game in the U.S.
The weird irony is that the nfl games, which on paper should have been great games, were blowouts. NBA games which are almost always blowouts were actually all good games [Reply]
The NBA delivered its most-watched Christmas Day in five years, with viewership up 84% vs. last year across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Disney+ and ESPN+. The NBA on Christmas Day averaged 5.25 million viewers per game in the U.S.
Precisely. People care about Steph and LeBron. They don't care about Luka and Jokic.
America first.
It's a shame Shai is Canadian or it could be Ant vs Shai for many years to come. Now the NBA has to hope Holmgren becomes that teams best player which isn't happening but him being a star could be helpful.
It's also a shame people don't seem to like Tatum. I myself am a big fan but I can see why he's kinda boring. [Reply]
The NBA delivered its most-watched Christmas Day in five years, with viewership up 84% vs. last year across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Disney+ and ESPN+. The NBA on Christmas Day averaged 5.25 million viewers per game in the U.S.