Baseball in the Media

Baseball in the Media

Baseball is a very popular sport. Baseball games are broadcasted almost every night during the regular season. There is major league baseball, college baseball, and little league World Series baseball. All types of baseball are broadcasted on TV. There are local stations that talk about the local baseball teams such as Comcast sports net Philly talks about all Philly sports in the Philly area. Baseball really depends on local stations to cover local sports. There is a MLB Network dedicated to all baseball news. This station will give you all the news on who trades and anything related to baseball. There are designated days that each TV network can show games. On Saturday afternoons and  nights Fox will televise the games and on Friday nights ESPN will televise the games. If you want to watch your local team you have to be watch on the local TV station but if you want to watch a highly covered game you can tune in on the national TV stations. Baseball will always be a highly covered sport.  

Role Models

Baseball Players are Not Role Models

Baseball players and other athletes are highly admired by kids. Baseball players are paid to be great baseball players not role models. It is parents  responsibility to be kids role models. Professional baseball players make mistakes too but they get there mistakes put on the internet and TV for everyone to see. For example Alex Rodriguez got caught taking steroids. This news was leaked everywhere and all kids saw that a great and talented baseball player was cheating.  Alex made a mistake, he is a human just like everyone else. Alex is paid to be a great baseball player, he should not have taken steroids to enhance his skills but it is not his responsibility to show kids what to do. I think that baseball players should be mindful of what they do because their life is under a magnifier glass. But it is not their job to be a role model, it is their job to be a professional baseball player. 

MLB Mistakes

Jayson Werth Arrested

Jason Werth is a right outfielder for the Washington Nationals. In his 2014 season he had 16 home runs and 37 doubles. Jayson is a great athlete and role model for young kids to look up to if they aspire to be a professional baseball player. But would you want your son looking up to a great baseball player who had to spent 10 days in jail? Jayson Werth was arrested on July 6th, 2014 for reckless driving. He was pulled over on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County,  VA. He was driving 105 mph in a 55 mph zone. Jayson was sentenced to 10 days of jail and 170 days suspended. He also lost his licences for 6 months. Every body makes mistakes but was Jayson willingly speeding. When arrested the state trooper said Jayson responded to his question of "What were you doing driving 105 mph" with "Pressing my luck."  Jayson made a mistake of driving way to fast but he knew he was driving too fast.  This story was not very big and not many people heard about it luckily for Jayson's sake. But if this story was more public it might affect his fan base. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/12/05/washington-nationals-jayson-werth-sentenced-to-10-days-in-jail-for-reckless-driving/19954935/

Should baseball have a clock??

Should Baseball Have a Clock?

Football is a timed game, people know what time the game is starting and about the exact time it is going to end. Football is successful this way because there is a clock. Football has a strict time limit and the clock keeps the game moving. If baseball has a clock more people might be interested in watching the game. An article from the New York Times says "In 1950 the average major league baseball game was about two and a half hours. In 2014, games ran a little more than 3 hours on average." The games have gotten longer and longer throughout the years. A lot of this has to do with advertising. There needs to be enough amount of commercials shown and the broadcasters and the jumbo trons needs to advertise. But are people really losing interest in the game? If baseball wants to gain more viewers they should have a clock. The clock will speed up the game and more people will have the attention span to watch the game. The New York Times article also states that "On Sunday night, a regular season N.F.L. game outstripped the World Series Game 5, with some 7 million more viewers." The Major League Baseball Network will drastically increase that number of viewers if they make the game shorter by adding a clock. The clock will speed the game up and make people more interested.


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/should-we-put-baseball-on-speed/?_r=0

Super Bowl Commercials

The 2015 Super Bowl commercials hit an all time high in cost. The cost for a Super Bowl commercial has been increasing over the past few years. The Super Bowl has started to be about watching the commercials more than watching the game. Forbes magazine said "Several studies have proven that 50% of the Super Bowl audience tunes in just to watch ads." A 30 seconds commercial costs $4 million dollars and a 60 seconds commercial costs $8  million dollars.  Probably one of the most controversial commercials this year was the Nationwide commercial enforcing child safety. The commercial was about a young boy who talks about all of the life steps he will never take because he died in an accident. The end of the commercial tells viewers that the number one cause of child deaths is preventable accidents. Nation wide got a lot of negative feed back from the commercial and had to announce a statement as to why they released the commercial. The commercials are so expensive, why are companies spending all of this money on commercials that are having negative effects on their company? 

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