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The WS ratings were about about an 8. The ratings for the afternoon games during the LCS were about a 3. That is why you won't see any day games during the WS any time soon. Sponsors like Chevy will not pay big $$$ for a pregame show that has an audience only about a 1/3 the size of what you'd...

One obvious reason is that San Francisco used to host the NFC CG all the time. The 49ers hosted the game in 89, 90, 91, 93 and 95.

The only thing people cared about was whether Pat Summerall and John Madden would still get to call games together. When CBS lost the rights to the NFL everybody assumed that was the end of the road for Pat and John. Once they signed with FOX everything was OK.

I hate the FOX robots. They are childish. So is Terry Bradshaw.

Answer: Toronto Blue Jays. Those Toronto teams killed the ratings in the US. The networks wanted a hedge against that.

Not to defend The Baseball Network too much because it probably was a dumb idea, but you have to remember how things were at the time. CBS lost a fortune with its coverage of MLB, and other networks were reluctant to pay big money for baseball. Then the strike in 94 wiped out the entire...

While there have been other NFL announcing teams that were good, nobody could top Summerall and Madden.