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Originally Posted by tspikes51
I think that this is an example of why the NFL is such a good buisiness model as far as professional sports go. The MLB has to do this rivalry thing if for nothing else than to get good ratings. Most guys I know watch 4 football games every week (Sunday @ 1 and 4. Sun night, MNF), but at most will only watch all of the televised evening games for their team. I also am a strong believer in one or three game playoff series. Seven games is too long and takes too much of a commitment to watch all of them (and therefore sells less advertising). This is why you have to pay millions for a Super Bowl ad. This is why the NFL can successfully expand worldwide with a sport that isn't very popular already in other countries (football is by far most popular in America, while baseball is very popular in Japan as well as many Carribean countries). I love the sport of baseball, I just think that the MLB isn't doing a very good job with it.
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A couple points.
1) Baseball doesn't do one- or three-game series because it is very bad for competition. Over seven games especially, the best team almost always will come out ahead. The NBA model is one you SHOULD be complaining about, where there is a minimum of one day between every game, so the playoffs can last more than a month and a half.
2) More games can mean more money. A Super Bowl ad may be $2.5 million, and a World Series ad $200,000. However, there are at minimum 17 breaks in a baseball game, while football can be as few as six (although with the possibility of far more with time-outs, change-of-possession, etc., so probably more like 20-25). With those numbers, it does seem MLB makes far fewer amounts of money. However, more people will watch the further a series goes, so prices go up. So, a seven-game championship series can likely make more money then a Super Bowl.