by gillsfan1066 » Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:39 am
Ok lets get something sorted out here. Sooty old mate, your on a need to know basis, where you need to be , when, at what time and wearing what ,you will be told by Grandma , so that's that sorted out, lol.
Basketball is BIG business over here, even most bad teams have waiting lists for season tickets. There are only 30 teams , just a few more than the Premier Division in England in a country of 331 Million people, and with each teams stadium only seating around 19,000 people, it's not hard to see why it is so popular on TV,especially as the season goes through our winter.
This years NBA finals between the L A Lakers and The Miami Heat ( two of the best supported teams nationwide),the TV Ratings were DOWN 35.9% over last year finals, and this years Baseball World Series which is all tied up at 2-2 TV and being played this very second , there TV ratings are DOWN 26.7 %.
When I speak to people about sport , and these are guys that go to games ,have ESPN 1 through ESPN 964, or whatever ,the general comment is I don't care , there all a bunch of overpaid spoiled a** holes, or words to that effect.
So many people here are out of work ,or working part time instead of full time,or the company they have worked for has closed down for good , just gone , then the last thing there interested in is some player who has just signed a new 145 million dollar 5 year contract,or some guy just starting year 3 of a 5 year contract and now demanding the team sit down and sort out a new contract for him at twice as much as before.
I am sure that when this damn CV19 has finally gone ,and people start working full time again then we will all start doing the things we did before, but I think it is going to take some time for everything to get back to where it was this time last year.