heartwarming true stories of 'america's pastime' (besides the three or four more popular sports)

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― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

not entirely related, but baseball is #2 in both attendance and #2 and in viewership in the USA.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

average attendance?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

2006 super bowl ratings - 41.6
2006 rose bowl ratings - 21.7
2005 world series ratings - 11.1
2006 daytona 500 ratings - 10.9
2006 masters ratings - 9.0

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

81x30 = 2,430 regular season major league baseball games x average attendance of 31k = 75.3 million paid attendees to regular season baseball games annually.

NFL had 17.2M paid attendees last season.

Average attendance is essentially the apples/oranges marginal utility of 8 home games vs. 81.

(xpost) Same with playoffs. Multiply 11.1 x 4-5-6-7 (your pick)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

30 people attend a class for 30 days /= 900 people attended that class! i thought baseball geeks were supposed to be better mathematicians than this! (btw masters takes place over four days - two of which are during the daytime on work days - and even during a year tiger's out of it it's only marginally less popular than the 'national pastime').

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

meanwhile rose on msnbc earlier tonight as well - his book just now coming out in paperback or something?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

blount.

paid attendees /= gross fans, duh!

i recommend taking a phone poll if you're looking for unique individual fans per.

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

you're right - baseball's totally more popular than football.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

in parts of maine.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

youreally didn't read my first post to this thread did you?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

you're right - baseball's totally more popular than college football. in new york city and boston.

SO HOW BOUT THAT PETE ROSE HUH?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

the braves don't win the east and all i got was this irritated poster.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the town's totally torn up about it. first the thrashers don't make the playoff then the braves don't win the east - no way we recover from this.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

he's probably more irritated he couldn't watch auburn vs. lsu like we could in new york.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

????????????????????

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

wish i coulda watched the lsu-auburn game, i think auburn's the best team in the country i'm amazed it was that close if not surprised - two best teams in the sec west. obligatory 'HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS'.

-- j blount (jamesbloun...), September 16th, 2006 9:56 PM. (papa la bas) (later) (userip)

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

besides the three or four more popular sports

Including dicking around on the web?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

yes stence, becuz i was at a game and drunk partying after they decided not to televise the auburn-lsu game in the southeast. that's right.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

heartwarming true story of 'america's pastime':

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/rick_reilly/08/07/reilly0814/
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=7043

(yes i know it's old news)

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

i see a lot of butthurt pps in this thread. there exists a butthurtedness.

― harbl (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

there’s a four-runs-per-inning max

That is some horseshit.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

"In this league, there is no home plate -- just a nebulous strike zone, though there are no strikes and there are no balls. The first time a runner is tagged or forced, he or she is not out -- but the SECOND time the runner is tagged or forced, he or she is out. However, there really is no such thing as an out, because the whole lineup gets to hit in each inning (of which there are three, unless the game time reaches an hour), from the number one through number nine hitters, unless it is thought that the offense might have scored four runs -- had there been a home plate on the field. Should a runner reach third base, he or she will proceed to the dugout, such that the feelings of the defensive team will not be hurt. Lollipops will be handed out to hitters who are struck with a pitch. They will have the option of taking first base or a second lollipop, or they can hopscotch around the bases if they wish."

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

great thread

― velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 04:39 (sixteen years ago)

five years pass...

After hearing that Gabby Street had caught a ball dropped off the Washington Monument in 1908, Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson brags that he could catch a ball dropped from an airplane at spring training, even though he is in his mid-50s and well above his playing weight. Robinson circles unsteadily under the descending spheroid. Instead, a grapefruit was secretly substituted and it explodes on impact with his glove. Once he feels the ooze, Robinson thinks it is blood, and screams that he is dying, until he tastes the juice. He later concedes that he probably would have been killed if a real baseball had been dropped from the plane. Aviatrix Ruth Law dropped the grapefruit as outfielder Casey Stengel assumed culpability for the switch.

some accounts have this occurring 100 years ago today

― mookieproof, Friday, 13 March 2015 15:35 (eleven years ago)

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