With baseball, basketball, and even MLS draped in all sorts of Black Lives Matter and social justice symbolism for their opening games, a substantially smaller number of fans tuned-in to those games.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit, the other day I turned on the TV, within 30 seconds, somebody was wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt. My reaction was to turn the channel, I have NO willingness to support this political action crap from millionaires or sport figures who are woke.
According to Outkick.com, neither NBA or MLB leagues did well in their opening games.
Outkick reported that the return of the NBA on TNT saw the following numbers:
Lakers-Clippers: 3.4 million
Pelicans-Jazz: 2.1 million
ESPN’s MLB return numbers were also underwhelming:
Yankees-Nationals: 4.0 million
Dodgers-Giants: 2.8 million
“To be fair since I compared MLB vs NBA return night 1, here is night 2,” (July 24) Strauss wrote, adding:
MLB (last Friday, ESPN)
Mets-Braves (4p) – 922K
Brewers-Cubs(7p) – 1.0M
Angels-As (10p) – 797K
NBA (last night ESPN) (July 31)
Celtics-Bucks (6:30p) – 1.3M
Mavs-Rockets (9p)- 1.7M
For good measure, Strauss also pointed out that baseball can’t blame the coronavirus. The virus didn’t stop people from watching Tom Brady golf with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson back in May.
Indeed, the charity golf match earned record TV ratings in May.
Dubbed “The Match II,” the game featuring Tom Brady, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning, and Tiger Woods peaked at an amazing 6.3 million viewers and raised more than $20 million for charity.
It’s funny how the only sport left is Golf. Most people I have talked to, said the exact same thing. If golf goes that way, then bye bye to them as well.
I’M tired of this shit!