Red Sox/MLB Buffalo Blue Jays - Mookie Betts agrees to sign 12-year, $365 million contract extension with LA

[LSCII]

Is baseball starting this week? is hockey, basketball and shortly football? those are sports, but hey - MMA was back in May, so we had sports..

Still going on this? Have fun with it. My point stands whether you like the sports that had already returned or not.

 

[BMC]

MMA is a far more demanding sport than 99% of the sports out there. You may not like it, but it's as real as it gets. Comparing it to WWE shows me how little you know about the sport and how little you understand it. And that's fine. It's not for everyone, but again, it's a professional sport that has been back for months now, despite the hedging of and clarifications of statements by others in this thread.

But is MMA really on the level of the big 4 sports (basketball, football, baseball & hockey)? I know the prize money for the championship fights has been huge but in terms of people attending & watching on tv??? Seriously?

 

[Therick67]

Still going on this? Have fun with it. My point stands whether you like the sports that had already returned or not.

Right, because you've never gone on about anything. We aren't seeing sports return. MMA started months ago, so baseball, hockey, football and other sports returning is irrelevant.

 

[LSCII]

But is MMA really on the level of the big 4 sports (basketball, football, baseball & hockey)? I know the prize money for the championship fights has been huge but in terms of people attending & watching on tv??? Seriously?

In reality, the big 4 is a Big 3, with hockey being way less than the others in America. In terms of PPV buys for UFC, like boxing it's more about who's fighting. If it's a good card with big stars, they'll rake it in. If it's not, it won't be viewed by casual fans that much, and that's the key to getting a PPV to be huge. The money is set up so the fighters get very little until they're big time, then they get points on the back end from the PPV sales. So a guy can get like $500K to fight, but end up getting a few million if the buys are there.

Top 10 PPV buys in UFC History as of March:
9. UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey - 1,100,000 - $60 million
9. UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm - 1,100,000 - $60 million
8. UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin - 1,160,000 - $55 million
7. UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes - 1,200,000 - $71 million
6. UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor - 1,300,000 - $83 million
5. UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor - 1,400,000 - $80 million
4. UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz - 1,500,000 - $80 million
3. UFC 100: Lesnar vs. Mir II - 1,600,000 - $82 million
2. UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor II - 1,650,000 - $90 million
1. UFC 229: Nurmagomedov vs. McGregor - 2,400,000 - $180 million

To give you some idea of where that ranks compared to boxing, the highest PPV of all time was 2.4 million buys for Mayweather vs De La Hoya. Tyson's fights typically got 1.5 to just under 2 million buys when he was fighting. When you had the crossover of Mayweather vs McGregor, that was 4.3 million PPV buys.

But to bring it back to baseball, I'll check out the game tomorrow and it will be fun to have it back. I just hope it goes okay.

 

[LSCII]

Right, because you've never gone on about anything. We aren't seeing sports return. MMA started months ago, so baseball, hockey, football and other sports returning is irrelevant.

HAHAHA! No, I do that all the time...lol

 

[Therick67]

HAHAHA! No, I do that all the time...lol

I know

 

[CDJ]

I missed this but the Sox apparently traded for Dylan Covey yesterday

 

[N o o d l e s]

That pitching staff is amongst the worst things I’ve ever seen

 

[Therick67]

That pitching staff is amongst the worst things I’ve ever seen

Could make for some long games..

 

[CDJ]

E-Rod also has lingering covid symptoms


Doesn’t impact the young and healthy tho

 

[McGarnagle]

I missed this but the Sox apparently traded for Dylan Covey yesterday

He went 1-8 with a 7.98 ERA last year

Probably an improvement on what we already have though

 

[LSCII]

This is going to be a shit show with the arms they've assembled as their starting pitching. For a really short 60 games, this could be a LONG season...lol

 

[BMC]

That pitching roster just screams "massive clusterf***" to me

They'll have to score at least 9 runs a game to win and even that might not be enough.

Oh well. Play ball!!!!!

 

[CDJ]

I look at it as flinging a bunch of shit at the wall and seeing what sticks as useful for next year

 

[KrejciMVP]

That pitching roster just screams "massive clusterf***" to me

They'll have to score at least 9 runs a game to win and even that might not be enough.

Oh well. Play ball!!!!!

The Orioles hitters are probably looking forward to this series.

 

[BMC]

The Orioles hitters are probably looking forward to this series.

Yes because they actually could win or even sweep!

 

[Fenway]

Eduardo Rodriguez shut down after post-COVID-19 complication

 

[McGarnagle]

Eduardo Rodriguez shut down after post-COVID-19 complication

We're legit looking at one of the worst rotations in modern MLB history

 

[Alicat]

 

[Alicat]

These guys are crying about playing without fans. Just shut up and call the damn game.

 

[McGarnagle]

Giancarlo on pace for 180 homers this year

 

[Alicat]

Giancarlo on pace for 180 homers this year

Scherzer left that one right in his sweet spot.

 

[McGarnagle]

Scherzer left that one right in his sweet spot.

I'm listening on the radio so I didn't see it, but it sounded like a major league ding dong johnson.

Side note, why does mlb.com try to charge people for radio access when I can just go to espn radio on tunein and stream the game legally that way?

 

[McGarnagle]

LMAO Cole

 

[N o o d l e s]

It’s only game one of the season and Angel has probably already made the worst strike three call of the year