Rest Of Baseball - 2016

[PhillyPhreak54]

Fs1 and NFLN isn't available at the Venetian or palazzo and they don't even have HD

But yeah you're right fs1 is distributed enough. Nevermind called after caller on the MLB radio saying they don't get it

[MDS]

im almost certain it was there, and nfln, but i wasnt in vegas to sit in the room and watch tv. so who cares.

the sample size of dumb callers to some radio show has no bearing on the fact that the channel is available in 85 million homes. the bigger cable stations have over 90. its not as highly distributed as them, sure, but its not some obscure station.

i mean i hate the fox corporation and would like to see them disintegrate but short of that i dont understand the complaints. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's not in the rooms and that's by design. They don't want you in your rooms watching games.

Indians bullpen is taxed and Kluber is going on short rest. Closing out today would be huge for them.

[ice grillin you]

mlb better get on renegotiating all their mlb tv deals so people can watch the game in their vegas hotel rooms 17 feet away from 4000 sports books

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah I have no beef whatsoever with them not having it on in Vegas hotel rooms. A small portion of people spend time in their rooms there.

But Rudy Martzke Jr here seems to think it's just fine that the LCS is on a network that doesn't have max exposure.

MLB could put the World Series on Oprah's channel and he'd defend it

[ice grillin you]

he has some insane notions regarding tv related stuff but hes right on this

people have to actually watch something for it to get max exposure whatever max exposure means....fs1 like lil guy said is in 85 million homes....i think one playoff game so far has even had two million viewers and the lcs get btwn 2-2.5 mil...fs1 is a perfectly acceptable channel for these to be on

if enough people cared about these games then it would be on regular fox but the fact is they dont and you cant expect a broadcast network to bump a much higher rated program for a baseball game no one watches

[MDS]

he has some insane notions regarding tv related stuff but hes right on this

no, but thank you

people have to actually watch something for it to get max exposure whatever max exposure means....fs1 like lil guy said is in 85 million homes....i think one playoff game so far has even had two million viewers and the lcs get btwn 2-2.5 mil...fs1 is a perfectly acceptable channel for these to be on

if enough people cared about these games then it would be on regular fox but the fact is they dont and you cant expect a broadcast network to bump a much higher rated program for a baseball game no one watches

the jays/injuns game got 2 mil on saturday but the cubs are doing much better than that. the games will average around 5-7 mil, with games 6-7 likely getting into double digits if they happen. typically, with an average matchup (jays/indians is horrible and cubs/dodgers is great), the games will do like 3-4 mil.

but overall, yes, if more people cared about baseball their games would be on broadcast or espn wouldve been interested in a playoff package. but the best offer they got was from fox.

[ice grillin you]

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/throwback-thursday-cory-lidles-widow-on-his-plane-crash-and-how-she-carries-on

[smeags]

thankfully you cleared that up for jay.

[QB Eagles]

I wonder how many more years we'll have to talk about not being able to watch content that we want to watch. Seems real antiquated when you look at the way virtually all other content is being distributed nowadays. I understand why live sports is the last holdout, but at some point the number of 70 year old men with the last cable connections in the neighborhood buying Miller Lite after watching the ads between innings won't be able to sustain this anymore.

[ice grillin you]

at some point the number of 70 year old men with the last cable connections in the neighborhood buying Miller Lite after watching the ads between innings won't be able to sustain this anymore.

until you can point a remote at a laptop thats hooked up to a 60 inch monitor and be able to flip thru all the stations you currently have on cable this is not likely to happen anytime soon or maybe ever

lots of sports fans want to lay on their couch and flip btwn the nba game on tnt to the nfl game on cbs to the nhl game on the center ice package and then during commericals of those games flip thru the hbo's to see whats poppin then to tbs for a possible KOQ episode

[QB Eagles]

Bring able to rapidly switch between games will be in the hands of the masses within five years, and basically already is if you know what you're doing. And yes, everything I watch is on a 60 inch TV.

Scripted TV shows are watched when people want to watch them, not when some TBS programmer decides it's time to stream S3E12 of KOQ.

I know you love the last channel button but that's not going to sustain a multibillion dollar empire when hardly anyone under 30 has cable.

[ice grillin you]

it may not sustain it but cable tv isnt going away in our lifetimes primarily because of this reason

[MDS]

it may not sustain it but cable tv isnt going away in our lifetimes primarily because of this reason

true

like newspapers they will hang around in some form, but they will be almost exclusive to old people, bars and hotels. channels will fold and consolidate. but the medium will still exist. the question is how will sports be delivered on streaming. will you be able to buy the espn/fs1/tbs app for $5 a month? will they be bundled and packaged together basically like cable is now? that im not sure of.

also last night: baseball 4 mil, nfl 8 mil

[PhillyPhreak54]

You'll be happy to know that I've got it working on my iPad

You and your ilk win, pal