Playoffs

[dgalehouse]

Years ago, just about every boy in the country had a stack of baseball cards. Today, there are collectors who are looking to make a profit, but the average kid is not that interested. For a number of reasons, the youth of America , with a few exceptions , is just not as into baseball as they were in the past. That has been the trend for a number of years. MLB is not too concerned because they are still making money

[notin]

Flipper was 10 times the athlete the lazy mr. Ed was.

 

Flipper was a world class swimmer that made Michael Phelps look like a leaky buoy!!

 

Mr. Ed was a lazy, shiftless blabbermouth who used his freakish ability to gossip as an excuse to not perform his duties as a horse…

[moonslav59]

Years ago, just about every boy in the country had a stack of baseball cards. Today, there are collectors who are looking to make a profit, but the average kid is not that interested. For a number of reasons, the youth of America , with a few exceptions , is just not as into baseball as they were in the past. That has been the trend for a number of years. MLB is not too concerned because they are still making money

 

I think the whole collectable cards thing went out of style after Pokemon.

 

Indeed, baseball is losing fan interest, and their half-ass efforts to "speed up the game" did not help add any new fans or keep any older ones more interested.

[moonslav59]

Flipper was a world class swimmer that made Michael Phelps look like a leaky buoy!!

 

Mr. Ed was a lazy, shiftless blabbermouth who used his freakish ability to gossip as an excuse to not perform his duties as a horse…

 

Indeed. He was antithesis to the concept of an athlete.

[mvp 78]

Flipper was 10 times the athlete the lazy mr. Ed was.

 

Flipper was more athletic for sure, but Mr Ed competed in more sporting events during his series.

[notin]

Flipper was more athletic for sure, but Mr Ed competed in more sporting events during his series.

 

That’s because no one else on the show was considered competition for Flipper…

[moonslav59]

Flipper was more athletic for sure, but Mr Ed competed in more sporting events during his series.

 

He'd be roasted alive, here, if he was ever a Red Sox.

[notin]

I think the whole collectable cards thing went out of style after Pokemon.

 

Indeed, baseball is losing fan interest, and their half-ass efforts to "speed up the game" did not help add any new fans or keep any older ones more interested.

 

I really do think the rise of streaming platforms and the increased quality of content they supply is another huge factor. Casual baseball fans used to watch the World Series simply since it might have been the best of three options. But today, if you don’t like the teams involved, you can go catch up on Ted Lasso or The Last of Us instead, which you could not do in 1980…

[mvp 78]

I think the whole collectable cards thing went out of style after Pokemon.

 

Indeed, baseball is losing fan interest, and their half-ass efforts to "speed up the game" did not help add any new fans or keep any older ones more interested.

 

Pokemon didn't reach the US until '98 alongside the cartoon. This was after the card industry crashed with the ending of the junk wax era in '93. The one notable card collectible that did come out right after the junk wax era was Magic: the Gathering. I'm not sure if it peaked in popularity until much later though.

[mvp 78]

Flipper was a world class swimmer that made Michael Phelps look like a leaky buoy!!

 

Mr. Ed was a lazy, shiftless blabbermouth who used his freakish ability to gossip as an excuse to not perform his duties as a horse…

 

"His duties." That's really messed up and humanistic of you.

[notin]

"His duties." That's really messed up and humanistic of you.

 

Hey I didn’t make the rules in rural America. Mr Ed was on a farm and expected to carry his share of the load as opposed to just being a loquacious welfare recipient…

[mvp 78]

That’s because no one else on the show was considered competition for Flipper…

 

Flipper couldn't find spare time to compete because he was actually too busy knocking up dolphins and then abandoning them and their babies for that Jezebel "Lorelei."

[mvp 78]

Hey I didn’t make the rules in rural America. Mr Ed was on a farm and expected to carry his share of the load as opposed to just being a loquacious welfare recipient…

 

Wilbur was an architect who lived in San Fernando Valley. Rural America... Yeah, right...

[Old Red]

That post was an obvious joke post buddy. It was all in italics.

 

I got that point, and the weren’t s*** part punctuated that, but that didn’t change my response.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Nobody could get close to Spot, who lived under the staircase on 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

 

... maybe Eddie (mold glove winner)

[Old Red]

But how much of that odd because the other options were “Mr. Ed” or “The Andy Griffith Show”?

 

Is that the best you got on why watching the WS was a bigger thing back in the day? Everyone knows that the WS was played strictly in the daytime back in those days, and the shows you mentioned were nighttime shows. Good try though.

[notin]

Is that the best you got on why watching the WS was a bigger thing back in the day? Everyone knows that the WS was played strictly in the daytime back in those days, and the shows you mentioned were nighttime shows. Good try though.

 

You just added a whole new wrinkle to my point. Day time TV always sucks. And I am positive that statement applied in the 1960s.

 

By 1971, the World Series was being played at night…

[Old Red]

You just added a whole new wrinkle to my point. Day time TV always sucks. And I am positive that statement applied in the 1960s.

 

By 1971, the World Series was being played at night…

 

You didn’t have a point to begin with, or at least a good one.

[notin]

Wilbur was an architect who lived in San Fernando Valley. Rural America... Yeah, right...

 

You know far too much about that show. Although honestly, you could have told me Wilbur was a serial killer acting on orders from split personality as voiced by a talking horse, and I would have either had to believe you or look it up.

 

And if it was true, I’d be streaming that show right now…

[notin]

You didn’t have a point to begin with, or at least a good one.

 

Sure I did. A big part of World Series ratings in the 1960s was that everything else on TV was awful…

[Old Red]

Sure I did. A big part of World Series ratings in the 1960s was that everything else on TV was awful…

 

That’s funny I never heard that theory anywhere else, or from anyone else. You must have scooped everyone else all these years.

[mvp 78]

You know far too much about that show. Although honestly, you could have told me Wilbur was a serial killer acting on orders from split personality as voiced by a talking horse, and I would have either had to believe you or look it up.

 

And if it was true, I’d be streaming that show right now…

 

That could make a good gritty reboot.

[notin]

That’s funny I never heard that theory anywhere else, or from anyone else. You must have scooped everyone else all these years.

 

Which is odd because it’s the simplest solution, and Occam’s Razor tells you the simplest solution is usually correct…

[Old Red]

Which is odd because it’s the simplest solution, and Occam’s Razor tells you the simplest solution is usually correct…

 

That to me would be on the bottom of the list of solutions for most fans.

[notin]

That could make a good gritty reboot.

 

I plan on pitching it to Apple TV…

[notin]

That to me would be on the bottom of the list of solutions for most fans.

 

… Which means nothing as to whether or not it’s true…

[Old Red]

… Which means nothing as to whether or not it’s true…

 

Neither does thinking, or saying it’s true.

[Old Red]

Imagine for all these years I thought I skipped school a couple of times in Oct of 67 was because I wanted to watch the WS.

[jad]

I see that in the last 40 posts or so, not one has been about the present WS. And yet Manfred says, and Manfred is an honorable man, Manfred says ....

[moonslav59]

Imagine for all these years I thought I skipped school a couple of times in Oct of 67 was because I wanted to watch the WS.

 

I remember sneaking a radio into school with an earplug.