San Francisco is awash in
Giants euphoria, but predictably, the rest of the country doesn't seem to care, particularly when the one team looks as if destiny is on their side.
The
World Series ratings stand to be the lowest ever, in spite of two fairly large markets and an inspiring match-up, (although the Giants have a 2-0 advantage and have made
Texas look completely foolish, thus far.) This years ratings are down a whopping
26% from last year, but factor in media giants
NY and
Philly as
2009 market participants.
Fox Sports execs have taken a diplomatic approach to the
ratings, but deep down they and
MLB officials have to be disappointed that the
SF-Texas quagmire has not only been a supreme bust nationally, but dipped into
Fox's robust prime time TV schedule as well.
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Let's be honest-other than the Dodgers,NO other team on the west coast has the appeal of the San Francisco Giants. If it had been Giants-Yankee's execs would have nothing to complain about. Yankee's -Rangers would have been just a dud no matter how you cut it. They just got stuck with SF-TEX as worst case-for them. For us,Texas is a easy ticket to the WS title.
ReplyDeleteThese games w/Texas are not as exciting & stressful like the ones with the Phills & Atlanta. I'm sure the casual fan enjoyed those far more.
ReplyDeleteThe ratings sucked, not because of the teams, but because Fox and cablevision in the New York metro area decided to have a pissing contest. No one in the NYC, Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey and Philladelphi markets, 3 million + homes in NYC alone, saw games 1-3.
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