Apparently not many people wanted to watch the Red Sox dominate the Rockies:
NEW YORK –Boston’s sweep of the Colorado Rockies drew better ratings than last season’s World Series but fell short of previous years.
The four games averaged a 10.6 rating, the second-lowest ever, ahead of only the 10.1 in 2006 for the St. Louis Cardinals’ five-game win over the Detroit Tigers.
Game 4 on Sunday night attracted a 12.6 rating, up 9 percent from the 11.6 for last year’s Game 2, which was also on a Sunday.
Game 3 on Saturday night earned an 8.5 rating, the second-lowest rating ever for a World Series game, better only than last year’s Game 1, which drew an 8.0 on a Saturday.
Whatever. Unlike football and basketball, baseball is not a television friendly game — they don’t take as many time outs, there isn’t a clock controlling exactly (for the most part) how long the game will take, and there isn’t as much dead time for networks to promote their latest half-witted actress sitting in the stands — and I like it that way.
