[Marchand] Dodgers-Padres had nearly 2M viewers on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, most watched non-Yanks-Red Sox game in almost 6 years for the network.
Dodgers-Padres had nearly 2M viewers on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, most watched non-Yanks-Red Sox game in almost 6 years for the network.
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) April 16, 2024
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It’s not a rivalry tho
And I would have been one of them if I weren’t a masochist that loved watching my team lose in extras in April.
I know they don’t include viewers outside the US, but man there’s a LOT of fans in Japan watching the Yu Darvish vs. Shohei Ohtani matchup alone (JP Twitter at one point accumulated more than 5 million viewers in just an hour).
Too bad the broadcast has a huge boner for LA and can’t call an objective game.
Yanks and blow Sox still better though
I feel people somehow still underrate Shohei’s impact in baseball interest.
You would think that with all those viewers then that they would at least try to not have the commentary be absolute dogshit.
Peacock had it right. Combine one play by play and two color guys from each booth. Way more engaging for both fanbases and then I don’t have to listen to Buster say that they’re about to send Manny down to minors for rehab. Joe Davis and Mud Grant. Who says no?
They wanted to watch profar
/s
hopefully this means they’re gonna option more of the padres/dodgers games and leave the rest of us alone. Too bad divisional series got halved.
People like to say Sox-Yanks isn’t a top rivalry anymore, but the wording of this tweet seems to suggest otherwise.
It was the worst fuckin broadcast though. I swear they were talking more about football than baseball. The best bit was when one of the guys said something about batters chasing pitches and the other boomer replied with “what do you think they’re chasing? Greatness? Records?”
Fuck ESPN.
Ohtani’s shoes brings in the viewers. This is a known fact.
I would have watched even though I pay 250 bucks a year for mlb tv and rockies tv but I still have to have ESPN to watch Sunday night baseball….
2M got to see Mr. Irrelevant deliver in the clutch
I’m still set in my parochial ways. If it isn’t my Sox I’m not watching it, period.
bad for baseball
Jurickson Profar is a draw brother
2 million is good? Yikes
So Ohtani signing with the Dodgers was good for baseball?
Even I, a slightly unhinged gaints fanatic, watched the game.
more fun than the Dodgers-Giants games, less historical context but Padres are the Dodgers main rival in 2024 until shown otherwise
Sunday Night Baseball doesn’t do that well, huh
Very entertaining games but at one point one of the commentators said verbatim “It’s about OBP not OPS.” ESPN’s so shit.
Mookie makes an error.
“What an incredible play by Mookie to even get to that ball”
Mookie takes a secondary lead.
“That’s the best secondary lead you’ll see in your lifetime”
Jackson Merrill gets his 3rd hit of the game. 6 for 12 on the series.
“Let’s take another look at Freddie Freeman’s cleats”