Dude, the Yankees and Mets are home. No one in this city cares anymore. We are New Yorkers, and a NY team won yesterday. That's news. Two teams no one gives a damn about is not news.
New York is a Baseball town. I am watching and I care. The Jets get their coverge, this was the story.
If you're a baseball fan you care about the WS. If you're a Mets or Yankees fan you don't care at all. Personally I think there are more Jets fans then general baseball fans around here, especially with these 4 hour bloated monstrosities they call playoff games.
I live and breath Mets, I care. I am a huge baseball fan, and "dirtgate" is a way bigger story then the Jets beating the hapless Lions. The Jets got plenty of ink inside the News. Bottom line, is Rogers is the story in sports today.
See that's the thing. New York is no longer a "baseball town." It hasn't been since the strike. I'm one of those people that was a huge baseball fan until the strike. I watched every Yankee game, and then I made sure to watch every playoff/WS game, no matter who was in it. With the strike, this city turned to football and basketball. Baseball got left behind. Just because you still like it, Shade, doesn't qualify it as everyone. Walk around NY and ask people what they would rather watch on a Sunday afternoon. Football, or this World Series. Notice the NFL was kind enough not to play a game last night, while baseball, a sport that was born in the daytime, runs on into the night. I'd love to see the Neilson numbers for this one, not that they would be indicative of NY. I'm willing to bet the numbers for a Dallas Cowboy/NY Giants MNF game tonight beat last night's St Louis/Detroit game 2 numbers. When the Yankees and Mets are eliminated, the vast majority of New Yorkers head right into full-on football mode. Local sports is what counts here. Who gives a flying rat's ass what is going on with two teams who probably won't even appear in the playoffs next year?
they're not mutually exclusive terms. i watched almost every mets game this year and probably didn't watch 9 innings total of any games not involving the mets. joe sixpack isn't going to stay up till midnight to watch a WS game that he has no rooting interest in. there are a TON more general football fans then baseball fans.
I have had more conversations about Rogers this morning with people from the coffee truck guy, to a guy standing on line at Subway. Even the ladies at work were talking about it. Not many were chomping at the bit to discuss Leon's first TD. I have had people over my house for both games and will next weekend too, Baseball is still a huge sport. Maybe not in your circles.
anecdotal evidence isn't really the way to go here. i could walk out into the plant where i work and find a bunch of people that think some friendly soccer match is more important then the WS and the SB. fox pulls its #1 baseball announcer off the saturday "game of the week" games in order to cover pre-season football, that should tell you all you need to know about the sports relative popularity on a larger stage.
I just heard it 1st hand on M&MD show earlier and they're still talking about it... I had no idea...And like most of here, and callers have said, why didn't La Russa question or argue about it? Most say because he didn't want to tarnish the World Series and he's Jimmy Leyland's friend... I don't know too much about it since I haven't payed any attention to this situation, but they're making it like a big coverup.
this spot was there for the yankees and A's games.also a white sox game in sept and a july twins game.espn is researching his old starts to see when else. also they said the substance ,even when washed off,is still sticky on your hand.only the discoloring is removed.I forget the name of it already. and larussa didn't argur cuz his own pitches do it too. aka jeff mutha fukin suppan,mike my breaking ball drops 3 feet wainwright
Here are some good pics http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0610/gallery.mlb.rogers/content.1.html
