So has basketball surpassed baseball and become the second most popular sport in America?

So has basketball surpassed baseball and become the second most popular sport in America?

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Yes

Yes, It happened about 30 years ago

Of course

Baseball is fucking boring as shit.

Basketball became the second most watched sport in America in the late 80's probably.

Don't people in Kentucky have anything better to do than watch amateur cuckoop?

people who like being bored to death found out that basketball is even more boring than baseball so they moved to that

people fucking love watching their own baseball team, but literally nobody watches a game their team isn't in.

So you get these nice local ratings but terrible nationally televised ratings.

When your baseball team's season is over you stop watching. As opposed to the NBA where fans will continue to watch all the way regardless of if their team is in it or not.

Basketball fans are usually fans of players, not teams, and those players are usually in the playoffs.

wow i never knew you guys cared about the college kid stuff that much. big viewer numbers

Baseball just needs to do something to make it more exciting.

Switch to aluminum bats.
Legalize roids.
Allow fighting.
Bring the fences in about 50-75 feet.

Something like that.

When it's blueboods like Kentucky, UNC, Duke, Kansas etc, and they make it to the Final Four (which is now on cable), and then it's also a big matchup...yea it's gonna get crazy ratings.

You should see their stadiums. Definitely an American thing.

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Most people won't watch an out of market baseball game. People will watch out of market football and basketball games

you should see the football games.....

and they don't pay the players anything for it kek

spain doesn't pay young people anything either.

No, that would be football (soccer).

America is like half less white than we were 25 years ago so yes

not true, people are paid to do nothing. Viva o Socialismo.

Wow does this chart mean the americans rather watch Portugal play than the actual USMNT?