So, how did the presidential debate go last night? We didn’t watch it. We were watching the Cubs game.
The Cubs won the fourth game of the National League championship series against the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-2. That means among other things that the series will return to Wrigley Field.
Obviously, the Cubs’ hitting astonished us but the most remarkable thing was the color coverage of the game. It was as though the Cubs weren’t there. There was lots of adulatory comment about the last two games that the Dodgers won, the Dodger pitchers, etc. but very little about the Cubs. It was less “___________________ (insert Cub batter name here) hit a homer” than “_______________ (insert Dodger pitcher name here) failed to strike the batter out”. The NYT coverage this morning wasn’t “Cubs Win!” it was “Dodgers Lost”. It’s almost as though the Cubs weren’t there.
Appealing to the crucial downstate Illinois demographic.
#anybodybutthecubs
I presume that was tongue in cheek.
MSM bias. Clearly, the Dodgers are liberals. (Or just maybe the press realize ratings for a Chicago-Cleveland series could be awful.)
Steve
Face it, Schuler, Chicago is just flyover country.
The bad thing is that if the WS is Chicago vs Cleveland, they’ll completely ignore you guys altogether, and probably spend the broadcasts talking about why the NFL ratings are down so much.
I’m not so sure that the Cubs are a losing proposition from a television marketing standpoint. I know a lot more Angelenos who aren’t paying any attention to the NLCS than Chicagoans.
Market size isn’t just based on raw population numbers. You’ve got to think about those who will buy, those who might buy, and those who won’t buy as well.
I think that Angelenos and New Yorkers are extremely solipsistic. There is no Chicago equivalent of “there is no life east of Sepulveda”.
The Dodgers might possibly have the second largest national fanbase, a very distant second to the Yankees. But besides Dave’s point that this postseason means a lot more to Cubs fans than Dodgers fans this year, I am pretty sure that almost all of the unaffiliated baseball fans are rooting for the Cubs, because they usually root for the “new team.”
I haven’t watched hardly any of the post-season baseball coverage, but during the regular season the thing that stood out is Joe Maddon gets a lot of media attention as a “genius,” for work being performed by his players.
I’m not so sure that the Cubs are a losing proposition from a television marketing standpoint.
That’s not my point. My point is “that Angelenos and New Yorkers are extremely solipsistic.” Which is why, for example, we got Matt Ryan shoved down our throats as a college quarterback, because Boston is meaningful and, for example, the entire South isn’t. If Matt Ryan had played for UGa back then, instead of Boston College, he’d have been some other shlub, not the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in Cleats.