Friday Rockpile: Rockies TV ratings drop; Rox like layoff worries Phils

by Rox Girl on Oct 17, 2008 1:35 PM MDT in Rockpile Comment 6 comments

Winning the NLCS in 2007 didn't translate to more success in one key measure of fan support for the Rockies in 2008. According to Denver Business Journal, television ratings for Rockies games were off by five and a half percent this year. The team's sluggish start probably had a lot to do with this, but as the journal notes, viewership for baseball was down across the league this year.

The Phillies are well aware of the Rockies fate in 2008 after an eight day layoff between the NLCS and the World Series, and hope to avoid the same fate. Momentum in baseball seems to have only anecdotal evidence, but as Nolan Ryan indicates in this article, baseball players definitely seem to believe in it, and the psychological handicap might be worth a small margin for the opposing team.

Tracy Ringolsby mentions several candidates for the Rockies coaching vacancies after his article on the decisions facing the Dodgers this offseason. Among the notes are that Walt Weiss might turn out the Rockies hitting coach position and that former Mets manager Willie Randolph is another candidate for the Rockies bench coach position. Also noted are the free agency of Valerio De Los Santos and three prominent Latin American signees from this past summer.

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HD

Well maybe if we could watch ALL of the games in HD it would help improve things. I refuse to spend 3+ hours watching grainy fuzzy mediocre baseball on my HD TV. And seriously do we really need to keep having games on My20? One of the worst channels for quality on my dial. An all HD Rockies coverage would make a world of difference.

by holliday5 on Oct 17, 2008 2:28 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Digital

Maybe when everything goes digital next year it will improve? Not everyone has HDTV, so I doubt that was much of a factor. Though My20 in general could be. My parents don’t have cable, and channel 20 (and Fox, for that matter) has always come in like crap. They think that will improve when when everything goes digital and they have their converter set up.

by holly96 on Oct 17, 2008 3:34 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

here's hoping...

Seattle Mariners games are all available in HD. Same market size pretty much…why do we get the shaft I wonder?

by holliday5 on Oct 17, 2008 3:45 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Gotta love

Ringolsby mixing it up in the comments section to his own article

Second half run?

by moomacher on Oct 17, 2008 5:11 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Attendance was better...

Television coverage really does need improvement, however the attendance appeared a lot better this year. According to the Sports Network the Rockies had over 2.6 million fans attend games this year and the few games I was able to attend had higher attendance than games than past years. It was exciting to see more people at cavernous Coors Field, but even at 2.6 mill this season ranked 9th out of the past 15 years in attendance. It was the highest attendance Coor’s field has seen since 2002.

Rockin' October

by Charlie77 on Oct 17, 2008 11:06 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Here's another tip

Lose Jeff Huson. He sucks so bad as a color commentator I can’t understand how he even got the job. George Fraser isn’t much better. Can’t we get an ex-Rockie with a personality. Maybe E.Y.?

by holliday5 on Oct 20, 2008 8:37 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs