(11-27-2016 09:15 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-26-2016 11:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(10-02-2016 07:51 PM)Artifice Wrote:  Besides the multitude of other distractions, viewing options, and the expense to already pinched middle class wallets, the networks have ruined things by telling everyone over and over that only a few leagues and teams matter. Its not like this is new for them either. ESPN decided that MLB didn't exist outside of Boston and NY for about a decade and it ruined the sport for a lot of fans. ESPN = worst thing that ever happened to college football.

100% true. Literally the reason Baseball went from my favorite sport to one I haven't watched in 8+ years.

Well ESPN didn't help, but it was the strikes that turned me off. I didn't tune in to sports to see a bunch of millionaires fighting over $s.
Free agency and the revenue gap between the top teams didn't help. You had 4 or 5 teams who could get any player they wanted and there was little continuity.

I now several people have gave up years ago on MLB for this very reason. An intriguing thought here as it appears that College Football has gone down this same path with only 5 to 10 schools that can get any player and coach that they want making things so that the same teams are in the playoffs every year. I love College Football, but even I stopped watching the national championship games 5 years ago. If what they have done to the game has stopped a decades old fan (since the 1970s) from watching the championship then how is the current situation going to attract new fans?

TV is making the game too long. I along with the rest of the fans are tired of sitting in our seats waiting for 5 minute commercials to be over, and this happens all game long.