kevin57 Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 (edited) Dear Sox and Stros, Fox is not happy with the TV ratings and our friends at ESPN are still trying to reconstruct their egos after being blindsided by your successes during the 2005 season. But we at MLB Headquarters owe you a big thank-you. You have helped salvage our sorry asses. It is still a bitter memory how steroid use was tarnishing baseball. From neighborhood bars to the halls of Congress we were being scorned. Records were being questioned. Legislation was being drafted. We were on the ropes. Of course, truth be told, we were entirely complicit in this. After the strike of '94 we needed to change the sport. Sex it up a bit, you know. What would draw attention and fans to the ballparks was power. Give 'em lots of homeruns. Give 'em strong bodies. We knew it wasn't on the up-and-up but it sure put the game in the spotlight again. Problem is that spotlight became a laser beam, shattering people's confidence and threatening to make everyone as cynical of the game as they had become in the wake of that horrible strike. Then, you guys came along. You revived what made baseball the greatest sport in the world: pitching, defense, timely hitting, oh, and yeah, team work. You have set the pattern for other teams to work not so much on individual stats and the cult of personality, but on picking each other up, on doing the not-so-glorious things like bunting the guy along and stealing. It may take a while for people to get used to this style of baseball. Sadly, even the "experts" seem to not get it. But we do, and this is our salute to your style, your class, your integrity. Sincerely, --Bud Edited October 29, 2005 by kevin57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodAsGould Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Actually Fox said they were very happy with the ratings and had no complaints...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin57 Posted October 29, 2005 Author Share Posted October 29, 2005 I'll play the cynic and say that that's what they were saying for public consumption, but they still would have preferred Yanks, Bosox, Cubs, LAA even in the Series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodAsGould Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 QUOTE(kevin57 @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) I'll play the cynic and say that that's what they were saying for public consumption, but they still would have preferred Yanks, Bosox, Cubs, LAA even in the Series. Well I dont think it would of been any different with the Angels and the cubs werent even in the playoffs... A course they prefer the Yanks/RedSox but they havent complained publicly and said they were satisfied with the series.... As for the lowest ratings ever most people dont figure into that most of the ratings come in the later games of the series and actually game 4 of the WS had a pretty damn good rating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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