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04-28-2024, 04:27 PM | #61 |
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04-28-2024, 04:38 PM | #62 |
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The strike year in the 90s is when I think it happened.
Looked it up, 94-95.
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04-28-2024, 05:02 PM | #63 |
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Basketball was king in the 90's for what I remember.
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04-28-2024, 06:09 PM | #64 | |
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So you have parity in that sense. Young, Favre, Indy/Manning, Brady, KC/Mahomes but it can take years for the pendulum to swing. In the NBA, the super stars have typically left for big markets as soon as they could. Although the last few years have bucked the trend of the big market teams dominanting somewhat. The Yankees still have what, one in four or one in five of every World Series title? Bought with one of the highest payrolls. I don't think the NFL dependence on having a top 5 QB to have much of a shot for winning the title is actually good for the league overall. Although obviously if that's how it's going to work, I'm thrilled to have Mahomes.
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04-28-2024, 06:21 PM | #65 |
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Basketball did seem like king for a while in the 90s.
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04-28-2024, 06:24 PM | #66 |
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04-29-2024, 09:52 AM | #68 |
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I always thought a football was bigger than a baseball.......
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I do fear football will eventually go the way of baseball. As it pushes for more games. ect. It's a long way from being that watered down but they really should stop pushing longer seasons and work on a developmental spring type league or something. Put a higher quality product on the field not the same one but more tired and spread out.
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04-29-2024, 01:02 PM | #70 |
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I turn on baseball if I want to listen to some background ambiance when I take a nap.
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04-29-2024, 01:05 PM | #71 |
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Pretty close to me as well. Followed the Royals more until that point.
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04-29-2024, 01:25 PM | #72 |
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I have to agree with many posters on here that MLB was way better pre strike.
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Made me remember something: another nail in the coffin for me was the widespread use of metrics. Took a lot of the drama/excitement out of the game for me.
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04-29-2024, 03:58 PM | #74 |
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Bigger than baseball? Not sure.
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04-29-2024, 04:07 PM | #75 | |
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Had to be more recent than the strike, I remember some playoff series from the early/mid-20s were top stories.
I'd put a vote toward the TV contracts - baseball has been an outlier in how regional it is and when locals can't watch their team then interest falls pretty quickly.
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