MLB 2014

[-Jrabbit]

If you watched the Bears game you saw plenty of ads for the NL games on fox sports one. This is the same setup they had last few years - TBS with NLDS and another cable network with ALDS plus a few games on mlb.tv.

The lack of ads is basically acknowledging that the DS is a local affair. The World Series gets more ads, and is partially on broadcast.

Those ads are for a Fox property, on Fox - during pro football, which farts in the general direction of MLB.

And "acknowledging the DS is a local affair" is not exactly a good excuse for ignoring the need to promote your own playoffs. That, in fact, becomes much more important when you don't have preferred media partners.

The fact that MLB has done this for a few years worth of slowly fading visibility is not exactly a ringing endorsement of their marketing vision.

[SlowwHand]

I'm for the Royals throughout.

[Boris Godunov]

So when the Texas teams are too stinky to get to the playoffs, you just pick the one geographically closest to Texas?

[SlowwHand]

Not really, but that could be a consideration. It has more to do with time since last went. I generally cheer for an A.L. team, too.

[Ben Kenobi]

The fact that MLB has done this for a few years worth of slowly fading visibility is not exactly a ringing endorsement of their marketing vision.

No Yankees, no Red Sox. What does MLB care about Os/Royals? The only matchup they care about are the Dodgers/Cards. I'd be shocked if MLB even spends much money on the World Series this year.

[Ming]

No Yankees, no Red Sox. What does MLB care about Os/Royals? The only matchup they care about are the Dodgers/Cards. I'd be shocked if MLB even spends much money on the World Series this year.

Yet again, you show just how little you know... Yep, MLB won't support/spend much money on the World Series... just another example of BENLAND.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yet again, you show just how little you know... Yep, MLB won't support/spend much money on the World Series... just another example of BENLAND.

Truth hurts.

[rah]

I'm sure FOX will have many many promo spots run across their family of channels. I've already seen quite a few.

[OzzyKP]

I'm for the Royals throughout.

Me too. Unless the Nats can keep surviving.

Poor Tigers.

[Ming]

Truth hurts.

With every post you dig a deeper hole... As usual, you show how little you know.

[Berzerker]

oh yeah

they're 7-0!

KC - SF

[Imran Siddiqui]

Crud:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/11703239/los-angeles-dodgers-stepping-21st-century-andrew-friedman

Andrew Friedman to the Dodgers. This basically means the years of the Rays being a threat will quickly come to an end, I fear. Maybe it'll hasten a move?

Oh, and well done by KC .

And yes, baseball in general is usually a local affair. The World Series will get its pub, but the rest of it... And there really is very little threat that it'll get passed by basketball... as for hockey, LOL... hockey is in danger of being a non-entity in the US sports media.

[OzzyKP]

Royals!!! 8 straight wins and on to the World Series!!

Also, for people complaining about ratings, the O's-Royals ALCS features two of the smallest markets in baseball playing each other and yet TBS has seen higher ratings this year than they saw with last year's NLCS between the Dodgers & Cardinals.

[Imran Siddiqui]

San Fran is up 3-1. I think a KC v. SF would be a fun World Series.

[Sava]

Cardinals fans are the worst fans in sports... perhaps worse than Canucks fans.