https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2572883&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjpzf7S06OVAxVOmGoFHVs2IgwQFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2J-PI8cob_yAg8BCtfvZHa

More interesting off day topic lol.

Having grown up playing both baseball basketball and soccer from Grade 4 through high school (late 80s), it's interesting to reflect on the changes over the last 30-40 years.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=951062647473877&id=100077104500727

The NBA once dominated MLB in viewership, but recent years have seen a dramatic reversal. We break down why baseball might be making a comeback, despite the popular narrative. #MLB

This is from 2022.

What changed?

Ohtani and the Dodgers? Judge/Yankees? More parity? Exploding popularity in Pacific Rim and influx of Asian talent? WBCs? Fall off from Lebron and the Warriors? Too many threes in NBA? MLB relatively more affordable and family oriented in comparison?

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One thing that's interesting is the WNBA now passing NHL in average t.v. ratings...except for maybe peak Stanley Cup Finals Games 5-7.

NASCAR has definitely gone backwards from high point 15+ years ago.

No Tiger-Phil in golf. LIV distractions.

MMA/wrestling trending upwards.

College football ratings have never been higher, at least the Big Ten and SEC.

NCAA softball way up.

This is a troll post

24 minutes ago, Green Line said:

This is a troll post

CNN posed the question.

Not me.

Soccer and cricket are the two sports with the biggest global pull...

You can start by comparing EPL La Liga Serie A Bundesliga and PSG team valuations.

Youth participation rates.

Safety of soccer vs. other sports...obviously concussion rates from headers to be considered.

Cost/s of participation.

Adult viewership. Youth viewership.

Viewership demographics.

Advertising/corporate sponsorship dollars.

30 minutes ago, Green Line said:

This is a troll post

His first link doesn’t even work, unless you subscribe. This is likely just another one of the Wuhan kid’s posts being placed in the wrong forum. I have never been a hater and even defended him numerous times, but you would think @caulfield12 would get it by now why he’s the site’s whipping boy. He fucking asks for it.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by WhiteSox2023

2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

His first link doesn’t even work. This is likely just another one of the Wuhan kid’s posts being placed in the wrong forum.

You don't get CNN lol?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2572883

I can click directly on this link with a VPN and get to the video and you can't in the US?

Well there's always Cubs/Mets now in extra innings to capture your attention.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by caulfield12

2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

You don't get CNN lol?

Wuhan boy, I tried to play the video at your link and it asked me to pay to watch it. I wouldn’t pay to watch any news you sourced whether it was provided by commie CNN or commie Chy-Nuh. I can get CNN for free via live streams but they would have to pay me to watch that crap. There’s a reason their profits are declining fast as f***. No one gives a f*** about CNN anymore but you.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by WhiteSox2023

10 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

You don't get CNN lol?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2572883

I can click directly on this link with a VPN and get to the video and you can't in the US?

Well there's always Cubs/Mets now in extra innings to capture your attention.

I wouldn’t waste the effort to turn on my VPN for CommieNN. You shared a link that not everyone could even view without a paid option. Your mistake, not mine.

A Cubs/Mets game is far more interesting than this bullshit post. Even you know this.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by WhiteSox2023

3 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wuhan boy, I tried to play the video at your link and it asked me to pay to watch it. I wouldn’t pay to watch any news you sourced whether it was provided by commie CNN or commie Chy-Nuh.

So what objective source of news information exists in the world today?

There isn't one, right?

I suppose the NY Times is corrupting The Athletic...

Everyone complained about the depth of recent results for the "negative/anti Sox" The Athletic's players' poll feedback recently.

"Scientific polling" can be massaged based on how questions/options are posed.

I suppose the foreign/outsidery football is a threat to America too.

It's why Alexei Lalas still refuses to call it anything besides soccer.

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

So what objective source of news information exists in the world today?

There isn't one, right?

I suppose the NY Times is corrupting The Athletic...

Everyone complained about the depth of recent results for the "negative/anti Sox" The Athletic's players' poll feedback recently.

"Scientific polling" can be massaged based on how questions/options are posed.

I suppose the foreign/outsidery football is a threat to America too.

It's why Alexei Lalas still refuses to call it anything besides soccer.

This isn’t that difficult — AP and Reuters. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, NY Times, etc. You seem to know the usual suspects so why are you acting surprised?

2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

I wouldn’t waste the effort to turn on my VPN for CommieNN. You shared a link that not everyone could even view without a paid option. Your mistake, not mine.

A Cubs/Mets game is far more interesting than this bullshit post. Even you know this.

Sorry to challenge your limited world view/s...

Mods can go ahead and bury this in some far flung section of the site that nobody goes to anymore.

We'll just pretend this whole World Cup thing doesn't exist as anything but a foreign touristic invasion of the country...with their strange/eccentric antics at baseball stadiums across the country.

2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Sorry to challenge your limited world view/s...

Mods can go ahead and bury this in some far flung section of the site that nobody goes to anymore.

We'll just pretend this whole World Cup thing doesn't exist as anything but a foreign touristic invasion of the country...with their strange/eccentric antics at baseball stadiums across the country.

I am literally watching the World Cup Turkey / USA game right now and it has f***-ALL to do with this SoxTalk forum that you posted this thread in. Neither does CNN or the NY Times opinion on anything.

2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

This isn’t that difficult — AP and Reuters. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, NY Times, etc. You seem to know the usual suspects so why are you acting surprised?

Why would there be a right/left political agenda to a sports poll?

That doesn't make any sense at all.

"Left/woke" is on the side of forcing soccer/football on Americans? Really???...And have been ever since Pele was on the New York Cosmos in the late 70s?

2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

I am literally watching the World Cup Turkey / USA game right now and it has f***-ALL to do with this SoxTalk forum that you posted this thread in. Neither does CNN or the NY Times opinion on

Then where is the World Cup thread a full two two weeks into the tournament???

2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Why would there be a right/left political agenda to a sports poll?

That doesn't make any sense at all.

"Left/woke" is on the side of forcing soccer/football on Americans? Really???...And have been ever since Pele was on the New York Cosmos in the late 70s?

Any sort of bias ruins your company’s credibility, regardless of the topic. This isn’t that difficult to understand.

1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:

Then where is the World Cup thread a full two two weeks into the tournament???

Once again — not in the SoxTalk forum? 🤣🤣🤣

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by WhiteSox2023

I do not watch soccer, golf, hockey, tennis, ping-pong, or politics, so I don't know much about any of those sports.

8 hours ago, Green Line said:

This is a troll post

Nah, just a regular Caulfield thread

This conversation happens everytime around the world cup and nothing changes ultimately once it’s over.

13 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

This conversation happens everytime around the world cup and nothing changes ultimately once it’s over.

It’s really not changing while it’s happening. The excitement is from the world. The US In this and being cheered but let’s not pretend our crowds are into this even 1/5th of the excitement that other nations show. Soccer will remain a distant sidebar in US sports

For the first time I have seen Cricket being played while driving past a park in Schaumburg. There is a couple billion people in the world that are Cricket fans.

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typo

9 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Then where is the World Cup thread a full two two weeks into the tournament???

I am old and useless, but I think the non-Boomers posting would tend to be soccer fans. Growing up I had absolutely no knowledge of soccer at all. We played sandlot baseball games all day until dinner time in the summer, football in the fall, hockey in the winter. If soccer was thing in my youth, we probably would have played pick-up games, we had tons of kids in the neighborhood.

14 minutes ago, Falstaff said:

For the first time I have seen Cricket being played while driving past a park in Schaumburg. There is a couple billion people in the world that are Cricket fans.

There are Indian households around the north side, so I semi-regularly see kids cricketing on a playground. That's fun. They probably sit on their bikes outside the back door of their friends' house and just yell their name until they come out.

4 minutes ago, Falstaff said:

I am old and useless, but I think the non-Boomers posting would tend to be soccer fans. Growing up I had absolutely no knowledge of soccer at all. We played sandlot baseball games all day until dinner time in the summer, football in the fall, hockey in the winter. If soccer was thing in my youth, we probably would have played pick-up games, we had tons of kids in the neighborhood.

Pong was the biggest video game when I was a kid, and that got boring pretty quick, so we still played any game we could throw or kick a ball in the alley, parking lot or across people's front yards. American professional soccer doesn't really get the top stars, so I'd guess it's hard to develop an enduring fan base to watch American up-and-comers and world stars in their twilight. It's probably like fans coming out to watch a 45-year-old Ricky Henderson play in the Atlantic League.

In with the new out with the old. As Boomers and Gen X age out the generations that grew up with soccer will continue to grow the sport.