dredeye
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NBA is a garbage league now of only super teams. NHL had a bad cup final for teams. Atmosphere is messed up. Everything is off and people don’t care
Blue Jays Discussion: Off-Season Pt VIII: Spring approaches and less (fewer) things are happening
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Ooohhhh Nick Allgeyer....and there’s Tim Mayza....and some of the interesting pen arms slotted for Buffalo....
I’m almost more excited for the non-roster pitchers than the roster pitchers.
I think he'd do quite well with this roster, the biggest difference between Gibby and Montoyo is bullpen management. If the Jays only get 1 more starting pitcher before opening day, there's going to be a lot of bullpen shenanigans and that's imo Montoyo's biggest weakness.
phillipmike
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Depends if the league is willing to give them one each or if they'll have to share one.
Seriously though, seems like the Rays are going out of their way to match the Ray/Stripling/Matz part of the Jays rotation, which doesn't seem like the best strategy to me.
I'm excited to see Martinez and Hiraldo. So many intriguing players to watch.
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Lifestyle changes? Like more people than ever being home watching TV?
Ratings weren't bad, they were historically bad.
Top 3 lowest rated Finals games of all time? All the past year. Top 3 lowest watched of all time? All this past year.
All this with the most popular player and team playing in the Finals.
NBA Finals television ratings - Wikipedia
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Friends of mine that are basketball fans say they watch less because its same teams facing Lebron. Raptors kinda broke through, but its going to go back to that again. It's nice if you are a fan of one of the superteams, but otherwie you know your team isn't going to do squat.
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I want James Paxton really bad.
Just noticed he was drafted by us in the 1st round of the 2009 draft. Then again in 2010 (4th round) by Seattle. Am i missing something here?
Just noticed he was drafted by us in the 1st round of the 2009 draft. Then again in 2010 (4th round) by Seattle. Am i missing something here?
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We drafted him, he demanded too much money (Boras client) and he went back into the draft. We ended up getting an extra 1st round pick the next year which was used to draft Noah Syndergaard.
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Well thats good at least. thats before my time so i was never aware.
hopefully we can get (re)united this time around!
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It was actually Noah Syndergaard, I forgot if it was Stroman (for not signing Beede) or him.
There is probably more then a few reasons why. Does illegal streaming count in those ratings?
A Normal sports year for me. Leaf games at least 75 games plus playoff games, i normally would watch 10 or so games of Boston and Tampa and scoreboard watch the rest. The NBA i'd watch about 50 Raptor games plus play offs. For MLB I'd watch between 80 and 100 jays games. I will also admit I'm much more of Toronto Fan then an NBA or MLB fan. But i love watching Sports with my kids.
This year i have paid attention to the Jays a lot more then normal. I'm watching all the Canadian teams in the NHL. I have Completely avoided the NBA. I don't watch any American TV channels and have avoided all American Teams. Which has been rather easy this year as nothing is on for new shows. I don't think anyways.
The one interesting thing is you are correct there is more people staying at home so you would think viewership would go up. Logically speaking of course. So what are people watching instead?
CatchyTune
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oh wow. so Paxton to Thor to Dickey. oh well. theres potential to get re-united with those names in the near future.
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phillipmike
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The article has some explanations as to why they're down. But yeah, I don't think sports viewership on the tv is anything to be worried about especially when you're looking at 2020 which is what the article was looking at and discussing. COVID, protests, sports leagues airing their playoffs at unusual times, many people probably cancelled their cable or subscriptions and pirated online etc.
Streaming. It's hard to care about sports when leagues are so messed up due to COVID. I hardly cared when they restarted the playoffs. I watched the leaf games just to get my hockey fix but in the end I didn't feel it had the same atmosphere or level of importance compared to a regular-season or if they had started it way sooner.
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