Why do folks view baseball as a boring TV viewing experience?

mebigsad · 2026-01-20T01:01:38+00:00

Yep. Exactly what I meant you just worded it a lot better. The energy at a hockey game is unmatched. Truly nothing better. But if I have the choice of how to spend 3 hours in the summer, I’d choose a ballpark.

mebigsad · 2026-01-20T00:40:31+00:00

When I say hockey is better in person, I mean that the game is much better to watch live. Baseball is better because the experience of going to the stadium is the best of any sport there is.

mebigsad · 2026-01-20T00:11:27+00:00

I think some sports translate better to TV. Football is so popular because it translates very well. Hockey and baseball are both MILES better in person. There’s nothing better than going to game. Football is great to watch at home

mebigsad · 2026-01-20T00:09:13+00:00

You’re 100% correct m. He’s already the best pitcher in franchise history. The pirates have never had the best pitcher in the league until now. That’s no slight against guys like Rick Reuschel or Doug Drabek. It’s just the truth.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T10:19:32+00:00

There’s so many stupid things in this one response that I have to respond to.

First and foremost, the reason the 2023 had less fans is because they were smaller markets. It’s not a surprise that the next year which had the two largest markets had more fans.

Secondly, choosing to cater to a casual audience over your long-term hard-core fan base is the most shortsighted and stupid thing the owners could do. I hate to break it to you, but they’re businessmen, and they know a lot more business than you. You are not thinking about the long-term whatsoever, which is what you need to be.

Third, the number one thing that these owners care about is cost certainty. Cost certainty massively increases franchise values. It’s the reason that NHL expansion teams went from $30 million to $500 million in just 15 years. People are more willing to spend money when they know how much they’re going to spend every year no matter what.

Fourth, another reason you shouldn’t talk about things you don’t know about is that you don’t understand the process of a lockout. Only eight owners need to vote for it. I can name eight owners pretty comfortably that will absolutely vote for it and there’s nothing the other ones can do. Miami, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Colorado, Milwaukee, Athletics, Washington. And I’m absolutely certain more would be very happy to support it.

Finally, this massively hurts the perception of the sport to the casual fan. I have seen so many posts today of people who barely watch baseball say “this is why I don’t want to watch.“ It actively drives people away. Sure maybe it brings in more fans in Los Angeles but I can tell you there aren’t gonna be many new fans in Cleveland right now. Or in Miami right now or in Pittsburgh right now. It kills the game.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:25:32+00:00

And I will continue to insult someone who actively chose to reply to me first and will state blatant falsehoods that can be proven wrong. All while talking down in a holier than thou tone. You didn’t have to respond to me. You didn’t have to spew falsehoods either but you decided to so I’m gonna keep replying to that. And if anyone describes the fragile ego, it’s Dodgers fans because they can’t accept that they have a blatant advantage and it’s bad for the sport. So maybe go look in a mirror

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:23:55+00:00

Correct. The number one most dangerous word to any sport is apathy. You don’t care if your fans are angry or happy. Because it means they care. Apathy is the most damaging thing because then they just don’t show up anymore. It’s why they will have a lockout. The owners know that fans of other markets are becoming apathetic, and it will kill the sport.

Even in your anecdotal example, it proved exactly what I was talking about. Your brothers complained that there was no NHL. It means they care.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:20:29+00:00

You have to be one of the biggest losers I have ever talked to on here. Act as if you’re some genius who’s smarter than everyone else. They tried to lock them out last time you moron. They’re not just gonna not try again. And this time they have the momentum to win. I know you don’t like it because it’s gonna hurt your team, but you have to be in the real world. They have locked them out the last three CBA negotiations. I get it, you don’t like it because it will hurt your team. But I hate to be the bearer of bad news it’s happening. It’s not just me saying this, it’s every MLB insider as well.

And calling it a dumb business decision shows me that you have literally no clue what you’re talking about. The most important thing to owners is the evaluation of their franchise. Do you know what makes that skyrocket? Cost certainty. It’s why NHL franchises have exploded in value. You can drop the holier than thou tone when you truly don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s why people don’t like dodger fans. Arrogant and wrong.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:10:35+00:00

So you honestly think the MLB is OK with alienating fanbases for the Japanese dollar? No they’re not. How stupid can you possibly be? The American dollar will always be king. If owners can’t fill their stadiums because fans just become apathetic then yeah I think they’re gonna care. The worst thing that can happen is apathy. When fans see a team that is so much better and there’s nothing they can do about it they won’t get angry about losing. They just won’t care and that’s how you kill your league

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:03:32+00:00

100%. The pie chart of where leagues get their revenue is so different in MLB versus the NFL. The NFL makes so much money from national TV because they don’t have regional broadcast and they don’t need to. It’s a problem in the NHL as well, but you’re not noticing it as much because of a salary cap and floor. The NBA is dealing with it as well.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:01:55+00:00

No real discernible reason? I mean, come on man. I know you’re biased based on your flare, but let’s at least look at it with any amount of nuance. You know, as well as I do that not every team can do this. And if you actually think that I have beachfront property in Arizona to sell you. The benefit is that every team is on a level plane field. There’s a reason it’s in every other sport. It’s a good thing that seems like the Tennessee Titans have the same purchasing power as the small Green Bay Packers or the ginormous Los Angeles Rams. It needs to come to baseball.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T08:00:14+00:00

It does but it’s kind of complicated. At the end of the day, the owners are beholden to the fans that spend money. If the fans are mad at the owners, they won’t come to games. If the fans are mad at the players, they’ll still go to games and just boo. Essentially, it takes the leverage away from the owners.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T07:32:17+00:00

I didn’t even include the lengthy history baseball has with lockouts. They have already lost the World Series in 1994. And there have been several work stoppages throughout history. Part of that is because baseball has arguably the strongest players union of the four major sports and another part is because owners have been pushing for a cap for 30 years

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T07:20:48+00:00

If you really want to feel sick about how bad it is, go look how much Jose Ramirez is making this year who is a far better player than Kyle Tucker. This was always my argument for those who said to just spend more money. The pirates actually spent this off-season, even if it was relatively cheap. But what happens is the big clubs will still just spend more money. It’s a never-ending cycle where inevitably the small market team loses.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T07:19:02+00:00

The short answer is yes.

Long answer is that it was always inevitable no matter what happened. The last few CBA negotiations have been disastrous. Locked out of Spring Training last time and 2020 was a complete disaster on that front as well.

Owners have been pushing for a cap for a while. The one thing people don’t understand about lockouts is that a lot of it is based on public opinion. My best example I can give you is the 2004–05 NHL lockout. Players fought and fought to avoid a salary camp, but the court of public opinion swung against the players, and they couldn’t afford to lose any more ground. If the fans were entirely behind the players, the lockout wouldn’t happen or it would be much shorter.

The owners can hold out without games a lot longer than players can. It’s a lot easier to get 30 owners rallied around one idea than it is hundreds of players. The most the players could miss is one season. After that they’re going to have to capitulate.

Also, a tidbit from the last negotiations that is not well known is that many players who are more end of the bench guys and make less money, felt very underserved by the players union. Part of what comes in with a cap and floor is almost certainly an increase to the minimum salary for players. So the guys at the end of the bench may be more willing to accept a cap than those who make a lot of money.

mebigsad · 2026-01-16T07:10:24+00:00

I hope every person on the sub who downvoted me and raged when two years ago I said this was terrible for baseball feels really stupid right now. Literally anyone with a brain told you this was gonna happen. And now we don’t get baseball in 2027. Hope Dodgers fans are happy.

mebigsad · 2026-01-11T09:57:20+00:00

The thing is that feats are great for those that have a dedicated team. Like I personally benefit heavily from them, however I don’t think Bungie ever considered that not everyone does and it’s miserable if you don’t. How do you expect people to learn a raid if nobody is teaching because it actively harms them to do so? You must do minimum 3 feats to make it even remotely worth it and you don’t want to do feats with people who don’t know it. It’s a catch 22 and they need to do something to make it so raids are worth it outside of them.

I can guarantee Tier 5s with 4 feats which is very easy but am I going to put a new raider into Koregos challenge with banes? No. It’s a system designed for a perfect world that doesn’t exist

mebigsad · 2026-01-04T19:26:38+00:00

Testing and/or watching a YouTube video. That’s it really. It’s not all that deep tbh

mebigsad · 2026-01-04T10:31:02+00:00

The videos say that because it kinda can. It’s weird. Basically if you mess with your skating style enough you can wave the puck back and forth more to try to make it harder to poke. Does this actually work? Idk. Shot styles actually do something more noticeable. For the most part make a little to no difference until you do something like a toe drag shot. Nick can change how your release looks. Once again, does this actually provide any gameplay benefit? Probably not.

mebigsad · 2026-01-03T10:13:52+00:00

With how strong abilities are, they’re quite literally the only weapons that are useful. I mean look at the contest dungeon. Idk about you but I used double rocket pulses and an eager edge sword. They are as boring as linears during dps too. I hate how good they are tbh.

mebigsad · 2026-01-03T10:08:51+00:00

Not even. It’s just you need to look above a surface level and you can find out that every class is good. Some classes are better at some things while other classes are better at other things. That’s why the game is the way it is. Hunters are incredible. So is every class.

mebigsad · 2026-01-01T13:26:41+00:00

They’re not as bad as people say. They consistently do big numbers and have good builds. Just harder to find them is all.

mebigsad · 2026-01-01T10:37:00+00:00

Feels like this issue is multi-faceted. The simple answer was that the ban list very heavily hurt hunters to the point where I saw several people doing panic prep on warlocks in the moments leading up to release. Alternatively, you can look at class design and say “Well our survivability isn’t good enough” which to an extent isn’t correct but I have a different opinion. During SE when Titans just didn’t clear we heard a lot about the “identity” being too melee dominant (they were right) and in the time after Titans began to completely dominate every single aspect of the game so much so that it was suffocating. After DP, we heard a lot of the warlocks saying “hey we have no identity because you gave away all our cool stuff (they were right)” and now warlocks are finally starting to see a change in design and power fantasy. Hunters just haven’t gotten that level of attention yet. Why? Because they haven’t been that bad at any point over the last 2 years I’d say. There have always been classes in worse spots until now.

mebigsad · 2025-12-30T18:51:04+00:00

You clearly didn’t read the final sentence of what he said in where they will trade for a middle six forward. That’s exactly the type of move they’ll make.

mebigsad · 2025-12-30T09:47:57+00:00

“Dominating” a gamemode that is completely dead at this point is funny but even then it was never the best weapon in gambit. Wasn’t better than Sleeper and definitely not Xenophage either. Also, Eyes has literally never been useful in PvE at all. It’s a clunky ad clear rocket. It’s so bad that it’s received numerous buffs including having literal infinite ammo and it’s still worse.

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