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ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
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Fox has to be crying tonight.
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  • DaBeefDaBeef Posts: 2,478
    F' em. Go Rays...
    Am I speaking Chinese?



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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Fox has to be crying tonight. >>



    Jerry,

    Between threads this is at least the third pot shot you have directed in the Rays direction. Do I sense a behavior of ENTITLEMENT in you? Oh yes I do. By golly, how can the World Series survive without one of the financial heavyweights in it image

    I will be watching the series as will Philadelphia and Tampa. Who cares about you guys in Boston. Go watch your horrible Pats image

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not in the Philly area - that's all I care about.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    Dan, it's just a fact. Small market Tampa, and middle market Philly just won't carry the weight with casual fans. Sure, baseball fans will watch it, but Fox counts on the World Series bringing in the casual fans - and this matchup just won't do it.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not in the Philly area - that's all I care about. >>



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    Steve, being from South Jersey I have felt the Phillie vibe for some time now. GOOD LUCK !

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Dan, it's just a fact. Small market Tampa, and middle market Philly just won't carry the weight with casual fans. Sure, baseball fans will watch it, but Fox counts on the World Series bringing in the casual fans - and this matchup just won't do it. >>



    Who gives a rats a$$ about Fox image

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  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    9-8=boring.

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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,537 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are drunk, or on LSD. FOX will play this up as the ultimate "Cinderella Story", which it truly is...

    Go Rays!

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think Fox will still make money on it regardless, perhaps not on the World Series ad revenue itself, but as a lead in for other Fox programs like "24" which starts a new season in November...and they'll make added money there.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    well i guess with yanks,sox out-i dont know who to root for now image
    tampa has proved well going from worst to w.s.-and then there is the monster ryan howard-didnt he have more homers than anybody this year? i dont watch till end of season-coming from the guy doing a 52 topps auto set Funny;
  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496


    << <i>Dan, it's just a fact. Small market Tampa, and middle market Philly just won't carry the weight with casual fans. Sure, baseball fans will watch it, but Fox counts on the World Series bringing in the casual fans - and this matchup just won't do it. >>



    Top Media Markets in US

    1 New York 7,375,530 6.692
    2 Los Angeles 5,536,430 5.023
    3 Chicago 3,430,790 3.113
    4 Philadelphia 2,925,560 2.654
    5 Boston (Manchester) 2,375,310 2.155
    6 San Francisco-Oak-San Jose 2,355,740 2.137
    7 Dallas-Ft. Worth 2,336,140 2.120
    8 Washington, DC (Hagrstwn) 2,252,550 2.044
    9 Atlanta 2,097,220 1.903
    10 Houston 1,938,670 1.759
    11 Detroit 1,936,350 1.757
    12 Tampa-St. Pete (Sarasota) 1,710,400 1.552
    13 Seattle-Tacoma 1,701,950 1.544



    If Philadelphia's middle market, what does that make Boston?
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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    I think all baseball fans will and should enjoy this cinderella story
    Go Rays!!
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    FOX will play this up as the ultimate "Cinderella Story", which it truly is...

    + fox news has all the hot blones doing the news, i know everthing that going on in the world every 30 minutes watchin meagan kelly and the 15 other hot babes on thereimage differnt fox chanell,but same owned

  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    GO RAYS!! image

    Rays in 5!

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about that. The Tampa market is nearly the size of Boston's and Philly's is BIGGER. Ehhhhh no loss for Fox image

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Goot there you go with facts again.



    I'm thinking the suits will play this up like the cinderella story it is.


    I know I'll be watching.


    Steve


    Good for you.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    Uh, please stop with the logic Goot. I'm trying to be miserable. Thank you.

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  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    what will joe buck and carver have to talk about when all these topics are gone:

    1) Man Ram and how big his **** is.
    2) The come back red sox never say die
    3) LA and that game against the Dback that they just HAD to win
    4) Josh Beckett and his playoff form

    Maybe they will once be talking about the two best team in baseball.

    JS
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    wv is prob 100,000th on that listimage more people in nyc that in all of wvimage
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>wv is prob 100,000th on that listimage more people in nyc that in all of wvimage >>




    Randy, where is WV anyway? Are you guys close to Montana? image

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have been to Martinsburg! image

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Jerry meant to say in the Boston area.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    its hidden down in hole in the woods so city people cant find it,its got a stargate opening to it image
    we got a cloaking device to hide us image
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Anybody see Dickie V at the game with the Rays jersey on? image

    I forgot about that till I just saw the replay on sporstcenter

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    whos dickie v, or do i wanna knowimage
  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496


    << <i>Uh, please stop with the logic Goot. I'm trying to be miserable. Thank you.

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    Sorry man, I can delete my post and we can pretend it all never happened. The game happened though.....sorry.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Uh, please stop with the logic Goot. I'm trying to be miserable. Thank you.

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    Sorry man, I can delete my post and we can pretend it all never happened. The game happened though.....sorry. >>



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  • AhmanfanAhmanfan Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭✭
    I'll watch more of this series than a Boston/Philly series. I've seen enough of boston. and I think a few people think the same way I do.
    John
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  • StopYurWhiningStopYurWhining Posts: 719
    screw fox! Go Ray's "image
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    Tito -

    Tell me how my a** tastes.

    Sincerely,
    Joe Maddon


    Good luck to the Rays.

    Go Phils!
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just another spoiled Red Sox fan image.

    Not a phrase you would have heard 5 years ago.
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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hats off to the Rays, they played a hell of a game. At least they didn't sweep the Sox, and didn't celebrate at Fenway.

    Anyones game last night, Rays just came out on top.

    Till next year,

    Scott
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    I love that there are none of the usual "large market" baseball media darlings in the Series.

    I love that Fox wet their beds when the Yankees and Mets missed the playoffs.

    I love that Fox sulked when the Phillies took out the Dodgers.

    I love that Fox saw their chance to have Chi-town representation go "poof" when the White Sox did the same.

    I love that Fox peed their pants when the Rays won last night.

    I'll bet the executive offices at Fox Sports feel like being at a funeral today.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    i love all the babes on fox news, forget sports now lol-bring me megan kellyimage
    i can tell you everything happening in the world every30 minutes image
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    World Series Ratings Drop As Expected
    Game One off 12% without marquee teams.
    By Ben Grossman -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/23/2008 4:03:00 PM

    Fox Sports’ airing of Wednesday night’s World Series Game One did a 9.2 ratings/15 share in households, continuing to prove the drawing power of major sporting events, but a 12% drop from last year’s Series opener.

    The ratings erosion was expected for multiple reasons, including a relatively unappealing (except to staunch baseball fans) Philadelphia Phillies-Tampa Bay Rays matchup.

    Last year’s World Series was between the Boston Red Sox – which Fox in a press release called “nationally familiar” -- and the Colorado Rockies. The numbers were, however, 15% higher than Game One between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers in 2006.

    This year’s event also must compete for mainstream attention with the election and all the hype surrounding the country’s flailing economy.

    Had the two teams that lost in the last round, the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, made it to the World Series, Fox’s bottom line would have been a lot better off, potentially to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

    So Fox execs can’t say it out loud, but they will be hoping for Tampa Bay to win tonight’s game to even the series at 1-1. A long series will help Fox significantly in the wallet.
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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    all these polls they supposedly do, awful funny they have never asked me and ill be 62 image
  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496
    So are you trying to say that WS teams should be determined by how many people would watch? Do you work for Fox or have stock in it or something, because you seem to be making a big deal out of this.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Will bad ratings make Chowd fan fan any better for spending a trillion dollars on a team and not even get a divison title out of it?

    JS
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    i would like to work for fox news, id get fired in 5 minutes though, all those blondesimage
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Red Sox lost, grow up and get over it!
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    whos this guy talkin tooimage
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>whos this guy talkin tooimage >>



    Who me? I'm talkin' to the ctsoxfan, he's mad that Boston didn't get in the world series, so he's posting that FOX will have low ratings. Basically he's like a kid having a temper tantrum.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    oh lolimage whenever i think of fox, i just think of all the hot chicks on fox newsimage
  • benderbroethbenderbroeth Posts: 1,699 ✭✭
    gee rube you gots you a one track mind..ha haimage
    my t-205's


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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So are you trying to say that WS teams should be determined by how many people would watch? Do you work for Fox or have stock in it or something, because you seem to be making a big deal out of this. >>



    This is classic Jerry. He has never been one to leave a Sox season ender very gracefully.

    I mean, WHO CARES about Fox ratings besides Fox?image And quite honestly, if teams like the Phillies and Rays can be picked apart because of silly TV ratings for a sport that WE ALL KNOW is a regional game then why even have these teams? That is where Jerry's yearly (if the Sox are not in it) crusade over TV ratings is laughably pathetic. Lets just get rid of the 20 or so teams that would help enable a low rated World Series.

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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    WHO FRIGGIN' CARE ABOUT TV RATINGS AS THEY RELATE TO SPORTS? SPORTS CAME BEFORE TV, NOT VICE VERSA.

    Sports is about competition, teamwork, and determination, not a friggin' media market.

    God how I hate this viewpoint. And I'm a broadcaster.




    Ron
    Ron Burgundy

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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    And by the way, you let me be the judge of whether I think it's a good matchup or not. Regardless of what cities are involved.



    Ron
    Ron Burgundy

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  • benderbroethbenderbroeth Posts: 1,699 ✭✭
    no i think i should be the judge ...ha ha
    my t-205's


    looking for low grade t205's psa 1-2
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Actually in this mornings paper this yrs. rating was 10.6 and last yrs. was 10.1 so I'm not sure
    what Jerry is talking about.


    Going back to 04 it was 15.6

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    i nominate megan kelley, hell with sport has been nerds on microphonesimage
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