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02-15-2005, 06:54 PM
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Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, Nascar...Women's beach Volleyball might be bigger as well. [/ QUOTE ] You got it all wrong. It should read: Hockey, Football, etc.. And to those who say Baseball > Hockey - Hand over your crack pipe. You obviously have no understanding of the greatest game on earth. 
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02-15-2005, 06:54 PM
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i'm at a loss why americans have never taken a liking to hockey. [/ QUOTE ] because only about 10% of our country is frozen wasteland and we have more interesting, sun filled passtimes like baseball. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#25
02-15-2005, 07:01 PM
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Re: geez, just kill it already
No compromises, the NHL needs to crush this union if they want the sport to survive. I'm not saying Bettman is right, or smart, but the sport needs a single decision maker and reasonable economics. You can't have the union approving rule changes, or they'll never open up the game enough to attract large fan bases. Right now it seems the thugs in the union fight tooth and nail against new rules, afraid they won't be able to make the roster in a wide open, fan friendly league.
Now that said, if Bettman gets complete control, he may still screw it up. But that's better than no-one being in control and the bottom franchises going out of business left and right.
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#27
02-15-2005, 07:05 PM
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The problem is that hockey doesn't show well on TV and the league has done a poor job of marketing. It's all about marketing. If you don't believe me, look at how stupid NASCAR is, yet it's huge - its success is thanks almost entirely to its marketing strategy. The NBA also owes much of its recent success to marketing. Football is also very well marketed, but it's simply the best tv sport there is (basketball also shows well on tv).
In my opinion, hockey is the sport of all sports, but it will have a difficult time surviving as a major sport simply because it's hard to follow the puck on a tv and the NHL has done a [censored] job of marketing itself.
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#28
02-15-2005, 07:05 PM
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Re: geez, just kill it already
like I said before, slow day at work.
anyway, I'm with you. baseball is the nuts. it's the best compromise between physical and mental that we're offered. it's a very democratic game in that strategy is prized almost as much as physicality. I think that's a large part of its appeal.
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#30
02-15-2005, 07:07 PM
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Baseball is the mathematical pwn. There are myriad books you can write on baseball that you can't write on any other sport. [/ QUOTE ] Bill James is a god among men.
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