Like most Americans I always look forward to football season the most out of any other sports season. With football season starting it takes away a lot of viewers away from other things and especially baseball. If you look at the ratings for Sunday night baseball game of the Yankees and Red Soxs vs a random players of the Cowboys vs Bengals point being preseason football blew baseball out of the water in ratings it wasn't even close and it was baseball rivalry. People in America find football more entertaining than just about anything else on television.
Ratings in the World Series basically hinge if the Yankees and Phillies play this year because all the other teams don't have big enough markets to make the world series profitable especially during football season being in the thick of things. They Yankees basically carry ratings in the post season as well as the Red Soxs.
Mike Scioscia the Angels Manager offered some very good ideas to shorten the regular season have the playoffs in august and September when football is still getting the feet wet and wont be cutting into there ratings terribly much espicially if you have the games on Tuesday through Friday. With a shorter season also means better weather for baseball as well it will improve the quality of the games played. Also it makes the regular season a little more important with less games to win. We really didnt need 162 games to find out the Yankees will be on top.
The main thing though with this whole thing is to try and get baseball rating respectable again when it matters and not in April and June.
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