World Series Ratings for Game Four Weren’t Bad, But Baseball Lost to Sunday Night Football
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World Series Ratings: The Steelers-Saints regular season NFL game on NBC topped game four of the World Series on Fox between the Giants and Rangers. The NFL drew a 11.8; MLB a 10.4. One wonders how much the World Series numbers were boosted by the Brett Favre-Patriots lead in (registered a whopping 17.0 rating). Fox is boasting that it “won the night,” which is true, but if you hear any baseball fan touting that as a victory, remind them the win was thanks to Favre. And now, the obligatory, “ratings are meaningless!” [USA Today, Hollywood Reporter]
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November 1st, 2010 at 12:18 PM
What is so shocking about this? Football is king. Of course it will win the ratings.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:19 PM
If Orlando plays the Trail Blazers in the NBA Finals, those ratings will be lousy, too. Football is the only sport going right now that doesn’t need big market teams competing to get big ratings. That’s just the way it is. We love us some football.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:19 PM
Wow. That went from theory to fact in record time.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:20 PM
If Orlando plays the Trail Blazers in the NBA Finals,
That was my pick this year, with the Blazers winning
/knows very little about bball
November 1st, 2010 at 12:20 PM
The NFL drew a 11.8; MLB a 10.4.
that’s pretty close. Wouldn’t all football fans (or at least most) have changed the channel to FNIA pretty quick? I know I left the room with the TV on, and the baseball was there when I got back, but it hadn’t started, so I loaded up FNIA on the DVR.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Seems like all TBL cares about is the ratings instead of the actual game.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:20 PM
you don’t hear anyone giving a shit about this either.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Hell yeah.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:21 PM
..and gambling. Can’t forget gambling.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Seems like all TBL cares about is the ratings instead of the actual game.
it’s just a game, it isn’t life and death, like Nascar and Aids.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Here is how Jon Stewart ended the Rally this weekend. I thought it was a pretty good speech.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Is baseball in danger of ceasing operations or losing TV contracts because of the ratings over the last 5-10 years? Because if not then by and large they aren’t that important
But keep breaking out that ruler
November 1st, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Speaking of football, will someone watch this video and explain to me how this was ruled that Gabbert’s forward progress was stopped, and that it was indeed NOT a fumble? I’ve watched this 10 times and all I see if a QB getting blown up and fumbling the ball.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:23 PM
I was streaming the baseball game with football on TV…should I call MLB to let them know they had another viewer?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Wonder how my picture in picture viewing of both games affected the ratings. After the first half of SNF, I was pretty locked in on the WS.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:24 PM
quit trying to be funny. you really suck at it. your annoying as hell to.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Yup, much closer than I thought it would be.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:26 PM
TBL, where ratings live!
Next season lets compare baseball ratings every night to everything else on TV. It will be just like this, only EVEN MORE AWESOME!
November 1st, 2010 at 12:27 PM
So wait a game between the Super Bowl Champions and the second most popular franchise, and most geographically dispersed fanbase, squeaks by a World Series nobody gives a shit about because it’s not the Yankees, and this is some sort of dickslap to MLB?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:27 PM
I think weekly we should find some terrible website that gets more web traffic than this one and analyze the reasons in great detail
November 1st, 2010 at 12:27 PM
quit trying to be funny. you really suck at it. your annoying as hell to.
you are or you’re.
/nitpick’d
November 1st, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Quit trying to be funny as you really suck at it. You‘re annoying as hell too.
Sorry there sonny boy, I had to fix your grammar. Now go back and start failing at math as well.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Ratings with TV shows are actually kind of interesting to follow, because those could, ya know, result in the end of something or a dramatic shift in the product. Ratings for sports, well, they don’t really mean anything or excite anyone.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:28 PM
quit trying to be funny. you really suck at it. your annoying as hell to.
if you don’t like them, don’t read my comments. I believe that’s your advice to everyone who hates everything you say, which is everyone.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Lakers-Celtics averaged a 10.6 (skewed by a 15 in game 7) last June.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Nielsen_ratings
would Heat-Lakers top that? would Heat-Lakers top whatever the World Series ends up averaging?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:29 PM
You mean you’re not typing with your bonah?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:29 PM
So wait a game between the Super Bowl Champions and the second most popular franchise, and most geographically dispersed fanbase, squeaks by a World Series nobody gives a shit about because it’s not the Yankees, and this is some sort of dickslap to MLB?
now you finally understand Mole. Baseball is on its last legs.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I’m worried about Community although they keep trying to tell me everything’s going to be OK
November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 PM
you mean like how this site…
/hammer’d
would anyone care?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 PM
But… they kind of are.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I’m done with College Football replay. Completely pointless.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:31 PM
would Heat-Lakers top that? would Heat-Lakers top whatever the World Series ends up averaging?
does that matter, overall? Because that won’t stop the NBA from losing money, and baseball from making money, which is what’s currently happening, I”m pretty sure.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Hey sunny, how about we show you what a moonsidedown looks like? You’ve been a little turd bitch since the AM roundup morning. GTFO, stop reading and commenting if you can’t handle your period.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:32 PM
let’s put it this way…if ratings determined quality then backstreet boys’ millenium would be roughly 20x the quality of miles davis’ kind of blue.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Well, yeah, but only because my Brazzers window is open at the same time.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:33 PM
To be fair, the 17.0 that Fox got for the Favre game helps illustrate to the true morons why they hear about Favre incessantly.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:33 PM
I was blown away that they ruled he was down due to forward progress being stopped. I have never seen that before and I’ve watched an obscene amount of football. I know there are some crazy NEB fans who think the B12 is out to get them, but then you see something like that and it makes you wonder.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Awesome. This site is boring as hell without me causing drama.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
All of this.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
To be fair, the 17.0 that Fox got for the Favre game helps illustrate to the true morons why they hear about Favre incessantly.
it’s also the only game on in 80% of the football watching country. It’s the national game, and there’s only two other stinkers going on at the time (I’m counting Tampa/Arizona as a stinker).
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
TBL – The NBA Finals compete with regular season baseball and the last 2-3 games of the SCF if it goes 5-7 games… that’s it. There’s not even new television shows, or at least not many of them in the summer.
You’re comparing two entirely different things. The World Series has new television, football, basketball and hockey to deal with.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
The Eagles have benched Ellis Hobbs. Praise the gods.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
go fail at life
November 1st, 2010 at 12:34 PM
let’s put it this way…if ratings determined quality then backstreet boys’ millenium would be roughly 20x the quality of miles davis’ kind of blue.
Well said.
/puts on Blue in Green.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:35 PM
im going to give this insult a solid “boo.”
we have standards here…can’t be letting this type of crap get off the assembly line, ya hurd?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:35 PM
drop dead cunt.
classy comeback.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:35 PM
You sir, are a loser
/Raheem Morris’d
November 1st, 2010 at 12:35 PM
/shakes head as “Lethal Weapon” saxophone plays
November 1st, 2010 at 12:36 PM
we’re too old for this shit.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Hey sunny, how about we show you what a moonsidedown looks like?
im going to give this insult a solid “boo.”
we have standards here…can’t be letting this type of crap get off the assembly line, ya hurd?
Apologies
November 1st, 2010 at 12:36 PM
im going to give this insult a solid “boo.”
we have standards here…can’t be letting this type of crap get off the assembly line, ya hurd?
sometimes turrible, turrible things can be effective. It drew a C-bomb. It was like a poorly thrown pass drawing a cheap PI penalty.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:36 PM
It really should be “ya herd” if you’re gonna get all street, Mr. Dick.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:37 PM
By the way spencer, congrats on the double OSU-UNT victories this weekend. That’s almost like planets aligning for how rare that’s become.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Per one of the sports media guys on Twitter, this is the first time a primetime NFL game has ever drawn more viewers than a World Series game, which is why it’s a “big deal.”
November 1st, 2010 at 12:38 PM
maybe if you’re from the faggy street, fag.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:38 PM
You sir, are a loser
/Raheem Morris’d
did you see the end? They showed the end here, the last 10 minutes of the game. Freeman got praised all to hell for throwing a moonshot that ended up getting miraculously caught, and he gets credit for a “game winning drive” to pad that stupid stat, even though he ended up taking a 17 yard sack so the defense had to seal the game.
It was a stinker.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:39 PM
I though the NFL didn’t have a Sunday Night Game if there was a World Series game scheduled?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Per one of the sports media guys on Twitter, this is the first time a primetime NFL game has ever drawn more viewers than a World Series game, which is why it’s a “big deal.”
they have classically not battled each other, though. MLB never used to challenge MNF when it was on a network, and the NFL used to hold back the Sunday game until I think last year.
I think that’s a teeny sample size. I think.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:40 PM
holy shit, UNT won?!?!?!?!?! what the fuck?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Este.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Yeah, but this is the first time there’s been a Sunday night NFL game during the World Series in a longtime. They should probably mention that.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:41 PM
I thought in years past the NFL wouldn’t schedule a Sunday Night game opposite the World Series out of some kind of respect or something. Am I remembering wrong?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Looks like they changed their mind about it and decided to this year.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:41 PM
SC – also, in June, the weather is warm, people travel to the beach, travel internationally, and the kids are out of school. who is home on a Tuesday to watch hoops vs. going outside to party in 80 degree weather?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:41 PM
an aside…i’d like to thank TBL for letting me use the word “fag” and all its variants with extreme prejudice without fearing for the hammer.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:42 PM
holy shit, UNT won?!?!?!?!?! what the fuck?
Yep. Beat Western Kentucky. 33-6.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Where’s Lisk and TST? I need to get some good Mizzou-hate talk going.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Was that “one of the sports media guys” TBL?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:42 PM
america because america is all fat now and shit.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Don’t forget that golfercraig guy.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 PM
I apologize. Heard it in a movie, and said. Your fine by me.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 PM
mean green > big red
November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 PM
how bout those first place baylor bears!
November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 PM
if you don’t like them, don’t read my comments. I believe that’s your advice to everyone who hates everything you say, which is everyone.
this made me LOL
dirt: you should be a life coach
November 1st, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Well they did play Western Kentucky. In football, the sport where they have 1 FBS win in ever, so…
November 1st, 2010 at 12:44 PM
america because america is all fat now and shit.
I had enough halloween candy for about 200 kids. I got zero kids. I knew I was getting zero kids.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Shit!!! I totally forgot about him. He has a glorious anti-Nebraska rant a while back. Good times.
/Gabbert is Nebraska’s bitch
November 1st, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Joe Q. BundledUp v. John P. EuroVacation
November 1st, 2010 at 12:45 PM
DON’T SHIT ON MY PARADE DAMNIT.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:45 PM
So now that TCU is ahead of Boise will all the writers bitching about Boise’s credentials have to just do a find/replace or what?
/counted those blue eggs too early
November 1st, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Same here. Well except for the 200 kids part.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:45 PM
I think he was pissed off about the Big 10 inviting NU over Mizzou. Didn’t make sense to him.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
So now that TCU is ahead of Boise will all the writers bitching about Boise’s credentials have to just do a find/replace or what?
/counted those blue eggs too early
You can do that on a typewriter?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
All the kids I know whose parents were taking them on globetrotting trips weren’t exactly into the NBA. They would probably call it “too urban.”
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
So now that TCU is ahead of Boise will all the writers bitching about Boise’s credentials have to just do a find/replace or what?
after next week, when TCU might jump Auburn, then there’s trouble. If TCU beats Utah, the computers will freaking love them.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
It’s awesome, man. I love watching Texas lose, though it pains me to think that due to the ineptitude of NEB in that game, Texas will be the reason NEB has no chance at playing for a title. I think Baylor will get worked by OU, but who knows? Maybe this is their year. Like SC winning the SEC East, Baylor is capitalizing on the B12 South not being as strong this year.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
I thought in years past the NFL wouldn’t schedule a Sunday Night game opposite the World Series out of some kind of respect or something. Am I remembering wrong?
correct. Goodell decided to give Bud & DeMaurice Davis Jr a high hard one & scare them into showing there is no stopping the NFL
Selig just to fuck baseball over, & Smith to let him know if they go on strike, they can roll out replacement players & pull big ratings, so you better cave before you get crushed
November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 PM
I had enough halloween candy for about 200 kids. I got zero kids. I knew I was getting zero kids.
Shit, I bought 425 pieces and only have about 40 left.
/I ate about 20 last night
November 1st, 2010 at 12:47 PM
Baseball’s economics are built on playing 162 games, 20 or so playoff games, and having a whole season to itself. The fact that individual games do or don’t outdraw other things is, while not meaningless, useless info if not taken in full context.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:47 PM
AUB has nothing to worry about. If they win their games, they will play for a title.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Who is their Qb? Kid seems like a pretty good player. He’s a Junior correct?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Shit, I bought 425 pieces and only have about 40 left.
/I ate about 20 last night
The fiance and I went to a bar to watch the Rangers-Giants game last night. I ate a bacon-jalapeno burger. I imagine we hate ourselves to similar degrees right now.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
regular jalapenos or deep fried jalapenos?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
There’s two e’s in fiancee isn’t there?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
AUB has nothing to worry about. If they win their games, they will play for a title.
i’m only in it for the outrage. Auburn is #1, pounds somebody, drops to #2. Then Auburn is #2, pounds somebody else, and all of the sudden is #3.
That would be awesome. It may not happen, but that would be awesome.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
I had enough halloween candy for about 200 kids. I got zero kids. I knew I was getting zero kids.
Yeah, that’s the same with me. I’m shocked that I still have teeth. And I’m glad you got to work NASCAR & AIDS back into a comment
November 1st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
There’s two e’s in fiancee isn’t there?
no, there’s a `
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
regular jalapenos or deep fried jalapenos?
Regular. But they fried the shit out of the bacon and the burger patty itself was the size of a fist. I was nearly late to work this morning for reasons you can probably guess.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Apostrophes don’t make things plural.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
And I’m glad you got to work NASCAR & AIDS back into a comment
and I’m not even the one who got C-bombed.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
fiancée?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
except that a bacon-jalepeno burger sounds magical right now.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Apostrophes don’t make things plural.
Yeah, that was also a mistake. I crapped half my body weight this morning, so cut me some slack.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:51 PM
There’s two e’s in fiancee isn’t there?
only in Canada, and only if she’s your favourite
November 1st, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Apostrophes don’t make things plural.
your mom does
November 1st, 2010 at 12:51 PM
The fiance and I went to a bar to watch the Rangers-Giants game last night. I ate a bacon-jalapeno burger. I imagine we hate ourselves to similar degrees right now.
I took 20 of those little packages of sour kids, it was equal to about half a normal bag. Still, way too much sugar.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:51 PM
You should hear his stance on quitters
November 1st, 2010 at 12:52 PM
fiancée?
just say future ex-wife.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Nah she’s gone through menopause her days of making more of things is gone.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:53 PM
just say future ex-wife.
Duly noted.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Who is their Qb? Kid seems like a pretty good player. He’s a Junior correct?
robert griffin. soph due to the injury last year. he is killing it. we will lose this week at oak state, so the delicious flavor of beating texas wont last long.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:53 PM
We made sauerbraten. It has to marinate in vinegar for like 4 days, and turns grey and smells like organic household cleaner. It was magical.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:55 PM
dirt: you should be a life coach
You should hear his stance on quitters
I read. You out of that woodshed you got taken to?
November 1st, 2010 at 12:55 PM
They’ll continue to bitch about Boise getting screwed. It’s what they do best. Poor TCU goes unnoticed by everyone. Oh, and they’ll point out that Boise beat TCU in the bowl game last year, but only after they remind you that rankings based on last year’s results are specious at best.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:56 PM
I believe its one ‘e’ for a male fiance, 2 ‘e’s for female fiancee.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:56 PM
I believe it’s fianceeeeeeeeeeee
November 1st, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Lefty I meant those bitching that Boise doesn’t deserve it. I just find it funny that they could end up being undefeated and not even be the highest non BCS team. It’s not like the media shouldn’t have seen this coming.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:57 PM
non auto qualifier, I mean.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:57 PM
i believe it’s spelled “finance” actually.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:57 PM
All good points.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:58 PM
I believe its one ‘e’ for a male fiance, 2 ‘e’s for female fiancee.
Think I might just stick with calling her my girlfriend until we’re actually married. That requires less thinking.
November 1st, 2010 at 1:00 PM
They absolutely should’ve seen it coming, but that requires them to get out of their echo chamber. Forde’s been tweeting about the Boise Bus all season, and they’re going to be behind either TCU or Utah, as they should be. Like you said, it was easily predictable. Doesn’t make for as good a narrative, though, and doesn’t sell any books. I also loved the fact that Ian Johnson was starting to defend the BCS last Tuesday night, and the microphone suddenly goes out. The lesson: stay on message.
November 1st, 2010 at 1:05 PM
Hey, Forde’s a good company man. If TCU had played on his network on Labor Day, he would be on that bus as well.
November 1st, 2010 at 1:07 PM
Please. He was much more harsh when he learned how much I like Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard.