I'm asking because I was really shocked from the ratings of last year's world series which were very high.
The previous year with the White Sox and Astros was the lowest in MLB history.
Could you imagine if the Red Sox were in the NL and at some point they met the Yankees in the world series what the ratings for that would be like?
2007-05-23 06:22:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yankees vs. Dodgers two biggest markets
2007-05-23 12:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by Dodgerblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Sox and Giants because of Bonds and Dice-K, Red Sox and Cubs because of their long history of coming up short, and Yankees vs Dodgers because of their long history playing each other in the world series, all in this order. Yankees vs Mets would be a good match up but with just local attention. Kansas City and the Washington Nationals if you don't want to see the series appear on television this year.
2007-05-23 06:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, last years were the lowest ratings ever, not high.
Get off your east coast bias - Yankees and Red Sox do not draw an audience in the Chicagoland area (as proof by espn ratings when they play). It would do well out east, but not everywhere else (kind of like the World Series does every year now).
2007-05-23 07:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yankees - Mets
Yankees - Dodgers
No one cares about the Red Sox except people from Boston. I personally think they are the most hated team in baseball. I personally don't think the Yankees are as hated as Red Sox fans make them out to be. Seems like all the hate comes from Boston.
Hell I didn't even watch the 2004 world series.
2007-05-23 06:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No one outside of Boston could give a hoot about the Red Sox. They are to preoccupied with hating the Yankees every year. It just turns people off. Even when they won in 2004 they showed no class. Hell their first baseman, whatever his name was, wouldn't even give up the baseball used to get the last out of the series. What a joke.
Like it or not the Yankees are the focus of major league baseball. It doesn't matter what kind of a season they are having.
The best match ups would be:
Yankees - Mets
Yankees - Dodgers
Yankees - Braves
Yankees - Phillies
Any other teams and most of the country won't even watch.
2007-05-23 06:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Yankee Dude 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fragmentation. In 1968, there have been 3 national nets -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- and that replaced into notably a lot the concepts visitors had. Now, there is quite a few hundred channels, each and every catering to its very own area of interest marketplace, plus many different, non-television entertainment concepts (like, oh, that there newfangled international huge WebbyNet element i've got heard the extra youthful persons tell approximately). And the inhabitants has grown substantially, besides as worldwide distribution of programming. So, on an identical time as extra eyes see the sequence than ever before, nationally that's a smaller proportion of means visitors than in circumstances previous. (And worldwide visitors do no longer ingredient into rankings.) Plus, as spoke of, the timing television has inflicted upon the video games is atrocious. confident, it extremely is to tush-kiss the well-known eastern time zone viewership, yet heavily, 8:35 pm eastern first pitch? it is adverse, a lot too late. i do no longer carry any delusions that the sequence might desire to pass lower back to afternoon video games, yet extra regularly occurring start up circumstances, like 7:05 or perhaps 7:30, might certainly make watching the video games a extra friendly adventure. (on the least, the weekend video games might desire to pass up an hour or extra.) besides, remember, aside from the flatline-EEG execs in the Fox suites and MLB's abode place of work, rankings are no longer significant.
2016-11-05 03:19:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mets - Yankees
Dodgers - Angels
White Sox - Cubs
2007-05-23 19:18:13 · answer #7 · answered by Lefty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Sox vs Mets.
2007-05-23 06:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by Ballzy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Since your question specifically deals with TV ratings, and not which teams will or deserve to be in the world series, then the answer is Yankees vs. Dodgers.
2007-05-23 07:26:05 · answer #9 · answered by dwmatty19 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the series that would bost the biggest ratings would be the world series rematch between the Boston Redsox and the New York Mets.
2007-05-23 07:01:05 · answer #10 · answered by ROB K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋