Wednesday, October 9, 2013
If Winning Was Easy, Losers Would Do It...
A new trend is being set this year in baseball, people are watching winning teams. Just kidding, this has been seen time and time again, over last couple decades of baseball; that TV ratings increase when a team performance is good. Fans love watching good quality baseball, which in return usually means their team is winning. The case this year is that the high-paid salary teams aren't winning and the small-marketed teams are. For the first time in over 20 years the Pittsburgh Pirates had a winning season plus earned a trip to the playoffs. Because of this, fan are finally watching Bucco baseball on TV, sending TV ratings through the roof. On the other hand, the New York Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time in the last five years, and throughout the season fans showed their disgust for Yankees baseball by not watching the games on TV, decreasing TV ratings. Not factoring the loyal-to-team baseball fans, the TV ratings correlation with good performance is a "no brain er." Of course fans are going to watch winning teams rather than losing teams...
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This does show the true meaning of bandwagon fans but people are going to watch their team on TV when their winning naturally. It is just who we are as sports fans. It is cool the pirates ratings were gonig through the roof and I think is because of our amazing story from going from first to last.
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