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Vanillalite

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dmncnby2k20

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Sports Media Watch said:
The Cubs' lone game of the MLB Postseason delivered strong numbers for ESPN.

Tuesday's Rockies-Cubs National League Wild Card game earned a 4.2 rating and 6.99 million viewers across ESPN and ESPN2, up 62% in ratings and 59% in viewership from last year on TBS (Rockies-D'Backs: 2.6, 4.40M) but down 7% and 9% respectively from 2016 on ESPN (Giants-Mets: 4.5, 7.71M).

Compared to last year's Wild Card game on ESPN, Twins-Yankees in the American League, ratings were flat and viewership increased 2% from 6.83 million.

The Rockies' 13-inning win delivered the fourth-largest audience in the history of the Wild Card round (13 telecasts dating back to 2012) and tied the fourth-highest rating. ESPN owns five of the six largest Wild Card audiences, the lone exception being the Cubs' previous Wild Card appearance — against the Pirates on TBS in 2015 (8.3M).

In the Nielsen fast-nationals, Tuesday's coverage peaked with 8.4 million viewers from 11-11:30 PM ET. The game did not end until after 1 AM ET.

The traditional ESPN broadcast had a 3.8 and 6.33 million, while ESPN2's special "Statcast" coverage had a 0.42 and 661,000.

Notably, Tuesday's game outdrew all-but-one of last year's National League playoff games, trailing Game 5 of the Cubs-Nationals Division Series on TBS (7.02M). The top game of last year's Dodgers-Cubs NLCS, Game 4, had 6.79 million.

Rockies-Cubs delivered a combined 2.3 rating in adults 18-49, up 77% from last year (1.3) and up a tick from 2016 (2.2). It had a 1.8 in adults 18-34 (+64%). It ranked second for the night in 18-49 behind NBC's "This is Us" (2.4) and took top honors in 18-34.

These games aint going nowhere. These are rating gole for the networks. Also, the statcast telecast was considered a success. We might seeing more of that in the future.
 

Sephzilla

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Yeah I'm a fan of the Wild Card game. It's some fantastic drama and it gives more incentive to play for the division title instead of just taking a wild card spot
 

Sanjuro

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I had a discussion about the wild card the other day. I'm still not a fan of a one game playoff, but would like them to do a quick three game series.

Day One: Double header.
Day Two: Deciding game if necessary.

No home and away.
 

THEVOID

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I had a discussion about the wild card the other day. I'm still not a fan of a one game playoff, but would like them to do a quick three game series.

Day One: Double header.
Day Two: Deciding game if necessary.

No home and away.

Hate it! You'd use two starters in one day and a possible 3rd. Not too mention your taxing your pen.
 
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Sephzilla

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Yeah I like the 1 game playoff because it gives the #1 seed division winner an advantage over the wild card team, but at the same time it doesn't completely decimate the pitching staff of the wild card team either
 
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Yeah I like the 1 game playoff because it gives the #1 seed division winner an advantage over the wild card team, but at the same time it doesn't completely decimate the pitching staff of the wild card team either
Right. The only other solution would be to have a longer 3 game series spread out but I kind of don't want to give that long of time to a wild card playoff. Baseball playoffs already take a long ass time as is.
 

Sephzilla

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Right. The only other solution would be to have a longer 3 game series spread out but I kind of don't want to give that long of time to a wild card playoff. Baseball playoffs already take a long ass time as is.
Plus the 1 game wild card gives a little extra excitement because there's always a chance that a really good team could get upset by someone who was like 8 games worse

The Wild Card format is a lot of fun. Just stressful when your team is in it
Yup. I really love the format but holy fuck I was relieved when the Brewers didn't have to do it
 

Windu

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I had a discussion about the wild card the other day. I'm still not a fan of a one game playoff, but would like them to do a quick three game series.

Day One: Double header.
Day Two: Deciding game if necessary.

No home and away.
I like the idea of the 2 game playoff.

Wild Card #1 must win 1 game.
Wild Card #2 must win both games.
 

RBH

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Bummed about no Dansby, but otherwise, this pleases me
 

Windu

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Thought they would carry more pitchers but whatever. Decent group. The Dodgers are already dead.
 

Doomsayer

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Left Stripling off the roster but kept Wood. Interesting.

Seems like there will be no goonery from Utley this round.
 

Deleted member 2785

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Taking Friday off to watch all the games. That schedule of games is glorious. Verlander, Kluber, Sale, Kershaw... all on the same day? My god.

AND SANCHEZ AND CHACIN? HOW CAN WE BE SO LUCKY TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW.
 

Luap

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I still love Stripling for his heroics in the first half of the season. He stepped up when we desperately needed it.
 

17 Seconds

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For the amount of time you have to respond to me, you could give yourself an avatar.

here's a good one for your angry, distant, Chicago takes.
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Also, who the fuck says "barf" thanks for showing your age, old man.

honestly I'm not trying to be mean, but everything you've said in this thread makes you sound completely oblivious to everything regarding the cubs or baseball in general
 

17 Seconds

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Brewers? I was gonna say LA, but I don't think they get past Milwaukee.

the Dodgers actually outscored their opponents by nearly twice as many runs as the brewers did in the regular season

pretty much all the projections and betting odds have the dodgers as massive favorites to come out of the NL. they had a lot of bullshit happen this season, but they are pretty stacked still.