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I watch fewer than 20 games a season (a game defined as at least 5 innings of a game) |
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46 | 22.66% |
I watch 20-50 games a season |
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37 | 18.23% |
I watch more than 50 games a season |
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94 | 46.31% |
I start watching baseball when the postseason rolls around |
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28 | 13.79% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 203. You may not vote on this poll |
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I'm in the 20-50 game camp, and that includes playoffs and the World Series games. I still enjoy the modern game, and even have MLB.TV, but I'm often too busy with other stuff to just sit and watch baseball in the summer. I seem to always have more free time November to April, so I've been watching a lot more hockey in the last 5 years or so. I probably watched 80+ complete hockey games last year, and really find it to be the most entertaining of modern sports.
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Go to about 15 games a year with my wife, grandson, and son. Great family bonding. Watch about 50 games on tv and turn on games when in the car.
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I'd estimate that I've watched 90+% of every Red Sox game since 1986. This season I watched every game except 1. This level of fandom doesn't allow me to watch any other sport and stay married. haha. So except for Super Bowl, I don't watch any football, basketball etc.
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really?! bummer. I've had it at every park I've been to this year including Seattle, Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Diego and NY Y.
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Yeah I agree. I doubt you'll find many Canadians who think that Rogers aren't bums.
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1) I wonder if they post similar charts with metrics for hitting the ball where it's pitched and hitting it where they ain't? 2) I wonder what some of the all time great hitters such as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Ted Williams, Pete Rose, Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn would say to suggestions that they give consideration to launch angles and exit velocities when stepping up to the plate? ![]()
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I don't watch any games.
When it comes to baseball I live in the past. I lost interest when all of the players of my youth retired (early 1990s). Pre youtube I built up a large archive of radio broadcasts by recording games and trading with other collectors. On a clear night in North Buffalo I used to pick up the Twins and Rangers broadcasts. Now I can barely pick up the Blue Jays 90 miles away. I listen to these old broadcasts regularly. Nothing like listening to Harwell and Cary. Herb Score, Dave Van Horne, Shannon and Buck, Tom and Jerry and the rest. |
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I've been on the same cycle every year.
From April through mid May I watch like a madman. 90% of Yankee games, 75% of Nats games, multiiple screens going to watch ABs of guys like Ohtani, Chourio, Vlad, the big names I love. From June until early September it's 2-3 games a week, tops. Once September rolls around it's just like April. Game(s) on just about every night right until the end of the World Series. |
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I totally understand why some people are not interested in the current game. I would just say that it is worth looking in every now and then because there are some amazing players performing at a very high level and it would be a shame to miss them (case in point, Ohtani today).
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Arguably the single greatest performance in the history of baseball. |
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It's amazing seeing this guy doing everything at a HOF-caliber level except playing defense. I would really like to see at least 2-3 healthy season in a row while he's still in his prime to see what he's really capable of.
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He’s the greatest player that ever lived and I’m not sure how it’s even debatable.
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Last night was for the ages & just a year past his 50/50 season |
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When he wins a Cy Young and at least 8 MVPs. That was Babe Ruth.
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He is a 1 in 100 year player. Just unbelievable what he can do.
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![]() Not taking anything away as Babe was the GOAT of his era but he never won a Cy Young (award didn’t exist until 1956) and only 1 MVP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Geoff Spending my lunch money on Baseball Cards It all just goes back into the PC https://www.ebay.com/str/premiercardcollectors Over 7500 successful transactions. Curating an unfocused collection for nearly 50 years. T206, 19th Century, Pre-War, HOFers, Jewish Athletes Member of SABR - Dead Ball Era/Baseball Card Research/19th Century |
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I probably attend more Minor League and College League games in a season and watch from beginning to end, then I actually watch games on TV.
I still follow the games pretty religiously, check in on the box scores and highlights while the games are going on and I'm doing other stuff or hanging with the wife on the couch while she's watching "not sports". Might catch a few innings at the end after the wife falls asleep on the couch...and before I fall asleep on the couch. Wish I had the foresight to catch the Ohtani show last night in real time though. Not a fan at all of the Dodgers, but remembered seeing Kirk Gibson's HR off of Eck as it happened, and it's been etched in my brain ever since. This would have been similar. Like if Reggie hit 3 HR's on 3 swings in the 77' Series...and then threw 6 shutout innings on top of that. ![]()
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I've never liked the Angels for whom he played from 2018 to 2023. The California Angels name the team used from 1965 to 1996 and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim name that they used from 2005 to 2015 permanently poisoned me against the team. (Los Angeles Angels or Anaheim Angels would have been fine.) Meanwhile the Dodgers were the anti-Yankees while in Brooklyn until the start of the 1958 season. They were David trying to slay the Yankee Goliath. But since 1958 they've been the West Coast Yankees. ![]()
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Bought the lower rent mlb package to pretty much watch Skenes. Dude is playing for the worst owner in baseball with a ca-RAPPY defense and bullpen behind him. One big problem with the mlb deal is the sheer number of games blacked out because of baseball’s need for local team revenue. Won’t be doing this next year.
P S. The Angel owner is an evil money grubbing self-sabotage loser. Hard for me to watch the team. As for the Dodgers, always blacked out. Always. Ohtani? A performance to remember. Timeless, legendary. Never saw that level of focus on the mound from him before. Gutsy, dominant, breaking pitches just sharp as a knife.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo. Also E222 cards of Lipe, Revelle & Ryan. |
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Checking Babe Ruth's stats was trying enough for the day.
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In the past 5 years regional and national (ESPN, notably) baseball contracts have been abandoned with those waiting to pick up the pieces either absent or not willing to pay anywhere near the old values. All of this while stadium revenues and the popularity of the game is strong...not a good indicator of the health of the current model for distributing the game. The owners will have to re-imagine how the game broadcast framework is going to work and the money from local/regional commercial sales are being less important.
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Note to self - No longer put faith in this poster's comments.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo. Also E222 cards of Lipe, Revelle & Ryan. |
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I'll be needing to steel myself mentally for looking over Babe Ruth's stats for another question that's popped to mind.
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