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Way to be completely unfair with the analysis there. Let's see, the ENTIRE NFL PLAYOFFS consists of 11 games, while there are as many as 41 in the MLB playoff system. If you took 11 random games from any year of baseball playoffs you could end up with a bunch of meaningless games as well. There was nothing great about the first 3 games of the Yankees' epic collapse. The rest of the games surrounding the Bartman ball didn't provide anything memorable. If you can see ONE TEAM potentially play 19 baseball games in one postseason, the odds are something memorable can happen since that's nearly two years worth of football postseasons.

I'm tired of seeing the fucking story on ESPN every ten minutes. They let the kid jack up 13 shots in 3:49. Mathematically he was shooting the ball every 17.6 seconds. People don't shoot that much in a pick up game on the street. Even Kobe Bryant thinks the kid is a ball hog. To me, that wasn't a feel good story because it wasn't in the flow of competition. Everything about it was artificial. Notice they didn't say he tossed up an airball at first and missed his second shot too. I applaud the kid for sticking to it, and the coach for giving him a break, but this is NOT Lance Armstrong coming back from cancer and winning 7 Tour De France's in a row no matter how hard ESPN pushes it.

I don't see that team winning gold, and I have a feeling Kobe will elbow LeBron in the face in practice or something because Kobe will need the spotlight being the diva that he is.

I don't think the show gets renewed beyond season 2. As I said before, the whole premise is that once the mother's revealed the show's main selling point is over, so at least make the payoff a worthy one. I still think Barney & Robin end up together, and to me that's infinitely more interesting than dull as dishwater Ted's love life.

Which averages out to be 27,878 per game, per team. I don't know how is it so great when the average amount of fans per game is less than 50% of stadium capacity. And when you factor in that the 2 NY teams contributed anywhere from 6-7 million of that 69, it means that 2 teams brought in about 10% of the fanbase. I'm sure that if you add in the Angels/Dodgers, Cubs/White Sox, and Red Sox that you've probably hit well over 20 million right there from just the 4 biggest cities who care about baseball. It's a regional sport. Actually here are the stats. The first set of numbers are the home stats, the second are the road ones, and the percentage of available seats sold. I forgot about the Cards and Giants, but if you add those cities in, the top 10 teams sold almost half of the tickets in a 30 team league. 1 NY Yankees 81 4,090,440 50,499 87.9 80 37,036 81.9 161 43,809 85.3 2 LA Dodgers 81 3,603,680 44,489 79.4 80 32,498 72.6 161 38,531 76.4 3 St. Louis 80 3,491,837 43,647 86.7 81 30,611 69.7 161 37,089 78.7 4 LA Angels 81 3,404,686 42,033 93.3 79 30,684 65.4 160 36,429 79.3 5 San Fran 80 3,140,781 39,259 94.5 80 31,695 68.4 160 35,477 80.8 6 Chi Cubs 80 3,100,262 38,753 98.0 80 36,389 80.9 160 37,571 88.9 7 San Diego 80 2,832,039 35,400 83.3 80 31,642 67.8 160 33,521 75.2 8 NY Mets 79 2,782,212 35,217 61.3 81 35,023 77.8 160 35,119 68.7 9 Boston 80 2,813,354 35,166 97.2 81 37,735 80.6 161 36,459 87.8 10 Houston 80 2,762,472 34,530 84.3 80 30,652 67.5 160 32,591 75.5 11 Washington 80 2,692,123 33,651 74.4 80 32,055 69.6 160 32,853 72.0 12 Seattle 80 2,689,529 33,619 70.4 81 27,604 61.7 161 30,593 66.1 13 Philadelphia 80 2,665,301 33,316 76.6 80 29,147 63.0 160 31,232 69.6 14 Baltimore 81 2,624,804 32,404 67.2 80 30,441 66.4 161 31,429 66.8 15 Atlanta 80 2,521,534 31,519 62.9 80 32,811 72.8 160 32,165 67.6 16 Texas 79 2,486,925 31,480 64.1 81 27,126 60.1 160 29,275 62.1 17 Chi Sox 81 2,342,834 28,923 71.2 79 28,004 62.5 160 28,470 66.7 18 Milwaukee 81 2,211,023 27,296 64.4 80 29,421 65.5 161 28,352 65.0 19 Oakland 81 2,109,298 26,040 59.6 80 29,814 65.6 161 27,915 62.7 20 Arizona 81 2,059,331 25,423 51.9 79 32,229 71.0 160 28,783 60.9 21 Detroit 80 2,024,505 25,306 63.1 78 26,437 57.7 158 25,864 60.2 22 Minnesota 80 2,013,453 25,168 51.7 81 27,368 61.7 161 26,275 56.5 23 Toronto 80 1,977,949 24,724 48.9 81 29,899 65.9 161 27,328 57.0 24 Cleveland 80 1,973,185 24,664 56.8 81 27,432 61.6 161 26,057 59.3 25 Cincinnati 81 1,943,157 23,989 57.0 79 32,246 73.3 160 28,066 65.2 26 Colorado 80 1,915,586 23,944 47.5 80 31,175 68.6 160 27,559 57.5 27 Pittsburgh 78 1,794,237 23,003 60.0 81 33,016 72.7 159 28,104 67.0 28 Florida 80 1,823,388 22,792 62.7 80 32,856 71.0 160 27,824 67.4 29 Kansas City 79 1,371,181 17,356 42.5 80 25,906 57.5 159 21,658 50.4 30 Tampa Bay 80 1,124,189 14,052 32.1 81 29,235 64.5 161 21,691 48.7

Is that directed to me or the other poster? Personally I don't give a damn what the guy likes or doesn't like The guy came to the board asking Why baseball is so damn popular in the NYC-Boston regions where its 4th, maybe 5th behind the NHL everywhere else in the country, I'm trying to prove that baseball is still top 2, maybe top 3 across the board in the country and shouldn't be lumped in with niche sports like tennis, NASCAR, golf, ect My point also is that the guy is being too bull headed and acting like a troll with his comments Your problem is that NASCAR has surpassed baseball but you still call it a niche sport. I think ESPN had a stat that said more people watched the Daytona 500 than any of the World Series games last year AND 6/7 of the NBA Finals. Hockey is a blip on the radar, and the NFL is king. Granted in NYC, NASCAR may not be a big deal, but I guarantee you if we had a track based in the city, 150,000 to 200,000 people would show up for that race every year. Unless it's Mets/Yankees, Yankees/Sawx, or a World Series game involving the Mets and/or Yankees you cannot find that many people willing to go watch a baseball game. A Royals/Rockies all time classic 7 game World Series would draw absolutely NO ratings because NY, LA, Chicago and Boston wouldn't watch it. NASCAR on the other hand can have a race in Talladega, Bristol or California and still pack in 100,000+ fans AND draw big ratings as well. I believe that was the original guy's point. Baseball is regional, and many regions of the US simply don't care about baseball when THEIR team is not involved.

Actually, Isiah would probably be a GREAT college coach. He's obviously got an eye for talent and he's a smooth operator so he'd be a great recruiter. He gets instant respect from young players for being such a great player, and he's a student of Bobby Knight, who like him or not gets results. Except he would probably try and recruit 4 point guards, 5 shooting guards, 4 small forwards and one guy who can play the pivot.

Mandisa wins tonight. Hands down.

Pickler's going to do well in this show, which means she'll get the lion's share of the "hot blonde" vote, so Cox is done. If she takes Brenna with her, I'll be satisfied.

It's Aww Shucks Barbie. Show her hugging McPhee again, that was the highlight of the show for me so far.

I like Paris less and less every time I see her. She's so fucking phony. I can't wait until she gets cut and starts balling her eyes out on stage.

If the American public aren't idiots (which is iffy) we won't see Brenna or Cox again since they were lucky to survive one week, and no one else really deserves to get sent home yet.

Stevie picked a bad song. Becky was a brunette with smaller boobs. Her blondeness and cup size got her the extra votes. Having said that, I think Cox won't survive this week, unless Kellie Pickler is bad since they're basically the same person except Kellie's more country. Somebody give Brenna a compass, so that she can maybe find at least one of the right notes before the song is over.

Simon is killing this bitch and even Paula can't save her. She's got to be cut after this "performance". After Simon ripped Paula she said she wanted to change seats.

Cox is stupid if she thinks she's gonna do well singing Mariah.

I think we just might see someone who can't sing get through this week due to the lack of energy thus far. I think Melissa's been the best of the first four in terms of overall performance.

Lisa's got to be pushing 35, I don't care what they say about her being "16".

I think the producers did her a favor by having her go first even though they knew she wasn't going to be great. It's always easiest to remember who was first and last, especially if no one was particularly amazing. Kinnik isn't gonna sing "Redneck Woman" is she? She does know she's black right?

Gratuitous shots of McPhee and Pickler hugging is HAWT.

There's a lot of speculation that Isiah requested to leave so he can go coach at IU. I hope it happens so I can take some joy as he destroys another once proud basketball organization. Everyone else seems to laugh at the Knicks' expense and I'd like to be in on the joke damnit.

Yes.

May your favorite teams all be stricken with management worse than the Layden/Isiah/Dolans era Knicks.

I'm 99.9% sure that was all a show to help his eventual multi-million dollar lawsuit. Yeah, well I'm pretty sure there's small print regarding attending an NBA game and the possibility of a loose ball or player ending up in the stands. If he was hoping for a fat payout he's going to be real disapointed. I didn't see it, but it sounds hilarious. Let me paint you a visual. KG tosses a ball into the crowd that was about as "savage" in its pace as when the ref bounces a ball to a free throw shooter. Next we see a fat piece of shit touching the tip of his nose as if to check if it was still attached. The camera zooms in tight on a red faced little girl (his soon to be fat, piece of shit daughter) who is in hysterics at this point. Then the fat piece of shit is seen getting all hot and bothered like a woman who just got proposed to at a sporting event, complete with the requisite hand trembling. I guess shock set in, because the hand trembling begins to look like he's having palsy or an epileptic seizure at this point. The next image is the guy being strapped to a fucking gurney and carted off like Mama Benjamin, only this "soldier" didn't have a neckboard to stabilize himself. Big Z got an actual HOLE in his skull opened up by a Sheed elbow yesterday and was pouring blood down his face, but didn't get nearly as fazed by it as this fat piece of shit who was selling it like he took a shotgun blast at close range. In fact, there have been athletes who have had broken necks that made less of a hissy fit than this fat piece of shit. It was easily the saddest, as in most pathetic, thing I've ever seen, but at least Jim Rome and Michael Wilbon ripped him mercilessly on ESPN today.

I've seen the one on the right in their profile quite a few times. Sadly, I was always with my then girlfriend at the time so I was never allowed to gawk the way I will once the show begins. There's no way they can win unless CBS is conspiring to only allow hot chicks named Danni/Dani/Danielle to succeed this year. My guess for first elimination is the black duo since that theory that the lone black representives always dies first works in the movies.

Has anyone ever seen a bigger pussy at an NBA game than the guy who got clipped in the nose by KG's errant ball toss? Dude had to be 250-300 pounds and got carted off on a fucking stretcher like he had a traumatic experience. If I was a relative of his, I'd be ashamed.