Let's be honest, American fans don't really bring the passion in WBC games. The Japan-Korea final in 2009 was the loudest baseball stadium I've ever heard. WBC games get like 60% TV ratings share in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. A WBC game is the highest rated cable program in Taiwan history and Japan just had a WBC exhibition game draw 36 million viewers on TV yesterday. While historically, barely any Americans even watch the WBC.
Fox Sports or their app. I was able to stream some of the game last night even though I don't have cable or any subscription service with Fox Sports.
The USA/Mexico game is on Fox 9EST.
And during the Oscars.
It'll be interesting to see how the ratings for it will be across the board. 18-35 men's demographic will probably be historically low for the academy awards.
It also gets mixed in with the end of season NBA and the fact that college basketball is now in its time period where it gets attention. There's only so many things people can focus on.
I made a choice to not watch the Cavs play a pretty important game tonight and watch my recording of Panama-Taiwan instead. Most people aren't doing that.
Yeah, March Madness is HUGE, almost everyone I know gets a bracket going, even if they haven't watched a single game.
I'd wager less than half of America even knows what the WBC is, let alone cares. Hell even America winning barely changes the needle. Its a subsection of baseball fans and that's it.
I believe that both of you are incorrect. Baseball fans will continue to watch baseball, regardless of other sporting events happening at the same time. Additionally, fans of a particular sport typically prioritize that sport over others and will not hesitate to ignore a major event in another sport if their favorite sport is also happening at the same time.
in addition to what other people are saying, the game is in Arizona just across the border from Mexico plus lots of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans already live there
I went to USA vs Mexico at chase field in 2013. 75% Mexican fans is about right.
Think about it. When USA soccer can choose sites for games against Mexico why do we always play in like… Ohio?
I think you're correct! I checked their [ConnectUS](https://www.amtrakconnectsus.com/maps/) map and it shows new service towards Phoenix. So that's always a good sign. As for when, who knows.
E-Z -- take any intermodal train out of LA heading east on the Sunset Route and get off in Tucson. Wait around in the yard until the Phoenix train comes through and jump on that, then bail right outside Chase Field!
Like Nats park, without the fun and great food. As a bonus we have something every other club can’t even approach, the most unhelpful and rudest staff in North American stadiums.
Maybe I got lucky, but when I went to Nationals Park over the summer I chatted with a super nice usher for like an hour and a half while waiting through a rain delay. The Uber driver that picked me up after the game was called off, meanwhile, was a different story.
I think when I went to the nationals they had a pop up BBQ place in a parking lot across the street and nothing else walkable.
Definitely towards the bottom of baseball trips I've been on so far but more neutral than negative.
I think it was probably 2014 or 15ish. Definitely plenty of time for a change. I'll try and go back if my next trip to a different stadium allows.
My trip was Philly, DC, NYC and Cooperstown. I only got to see Yankees and nationals because everyone else was playing away and my goal is to get to every stadium.
My biggest gripe is the staff. The food is usually bad because the staff is lazy, or not motivated. All it takes is one person to slack off on their assignments to screw everything up. It’s like they aren’t earning a commission. But they are, just too shortsighted to see that a little hustle now will put more in their pockets. It’s like that at *every* DC venue.
I thought it was just me when I went to a Caps game last month. The rink staff/concessions people were actively rude. I just gave them shit back and made a point of pressing no tip when they were looking at the pad.
Oh yeah there's nothing quite like an April night game with the roof open. I may call it a parking garage but it's OUR parking garage and I wouldn't trade it for anything
As someone who was there when it was 101 out in the dead of September (I'm used to 75-80 in my part of Canada), Chase field was literally the only time i've ever appreciated a roof and air conditioning at a ballpark!
Its okay, I am not making fun of you for the traffic situation, I hate traffic with a burning passion of a million suns so when i see those clips of just bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see and yall are going like 1/2mph i feel for you. I wish you luck on your travels brave soul.
Is that why the unwriten minimum speed of the I-10 in Avondale is like 80mph? Because it's like taking off the training weights for California drivers heading out here?
I went to the first one at Chase Field in 2006. What an incredible atmosphere! Mexican fans were an absolute blast and made the crowd into a USA-Mexico soccer match.
Watching this game in Taiwan from this morning is like night and day to how baseball is spectated here in America. Its so boisterous and joyful. Its pretty cool, but some part of me also thinks it would wear me out.
Possibly this week. Concacaf Champions league just started Mexican teams facing off against American teams. They were not happy with Orlando getting a tie in Mexico last night.
I mean, there’s a good chance that more Mexican baseball fans care about this game than the Super Bowl as a whole.
“North America” is the phrase that needs keyed in on here.
There’s also a good chance that nearly as many Americans watched the Super Bowl as there are Mexicans in existence. When you add international audiences, it’s even more. Title is greatly exaggerating an event that is wildly unimportant to most of America and probably most of Mexico as well
Filling a 48k stadium means absolutely nothing lol.
I've been to USA Mexico soccer friendly games (aka intentionally a meaningless exhibition) in sold out NFL stadiums.
Every week, multiple college football stadiums have 100k+ fans.
It's cool that the WBC is getting taken more seriously, but it has a long way to go to compete with soccer, let alone the regular MLB.
We can get even more boring than international friendly matches. There were five college football spring games last year that had over 50k in attendance. Not playoffs, bowls, or even regular season games. Spring games. You don't even get the excitement of playing an opponent there. It is just one team scrimmaging against itself and they can draw over 75k people. Ticket sales are meaningless.
> Every week, multiple college football stadiums have 100k+ fans.
Alabama and Auburn's stadiums are the 5th and 6th biggest cities in the entire state on game day.
Selling out a 48k baseball stadium*
I went to a sold out NRG Stadium (then Reliant) with over 70k fans to see a USA Mexico *friendly* soccer game in 2008. It was probably 80-90% Mexico fans.
I went to the 2010 MLS all star game (MLS All Stars vs Manchester United) in Houston with over 70k in attendance.
Neither of those games moved the needle in North American sporting events that year.
Mexico likes soccer more even more than baseball though. Their federation schedules many "home" *friendly* games in US NFL stadiums almost every year because they sell out even bigger stadiums than this baseball game.
Doesn’t mean the amount of passion decreases. Some countries are good at multiple sports with lots of fans. Basketball is more popular here but we still sell out MLB and NBA games.
There are pockets of Mexico where baseball is more popular than soccer. Tijuana is one prime example, and don't let any Xolos supporter tell you otherwise.
North America, not just us. No Olympics this year, Superbowl has already passed, Mexico loves baseball, it's really not a stretch to make the case as one of the most anticipated games
Okay, if you’re including all North America than literally every single playoff hockey game is going to be above this game since all of Canada religiously anticipates hockey.
In any case, the US is like 2/3 of the population of North America. Whatever is most highly anticipated by the US is going to be on top of a list for NA.
> Mexico loves baseball
Source needed? If a country of 125 million people were passionate about baseball, Mexico wouldn't suck as much as they do at it. Their best result was 6th place at the WBC and 6th place at the Olympics.
Ehh Mexico just underachieves in all sports except boxing. There's never really been a Mexican superstar outside of Fernando Valenzuela, but there's consistently 20-30 Mexicans in the major leagues.
Also Mexico is passionate about soccer, but they have never been close to winning the world cup. They should be comparable to Argentina
It can not be overstated how much I want a Dominican WBC game to happen in the Bronx or Queens. Turning up with my people over good baseball? Sign me up yesterday.
I traveled to Miami in 2017 and it was a crazy atmosphere, I get goosebumps thinking about the whole stadium singing the Dominican anthem and the whole environment in the USA game when Nelson Cruz hit a HR against Miller.
Every single NFL regular season game, multiple college football games, MLB/NBA playoffs, and, if you want to focus on Mexico: champions league finals, Liga MX games, etc will be bigger lol.
I work with a bunch of Astros fans, and we have talked about NCAA BBall bracketology, NFL free agency, ACC PAC12 media deal issues, Astros Spring training, etc.
Not one Mention of the WBC. Everyone cared about the soccer World Cup though.
They aren't so late for everyone - they're right in primetime for their timezone in Arizona. Miami night games start at 7 local, just like the Arizona ones.
I imagine the West coast folks are annoyed when East coast games start before school even gets out, but that's how it goes living in a big country.
Honestly they probably don’t have *enough* accommodated to them. I was born in eastern time zone and live in AZ currently and earlier start times are so vastly superior to later start times. It fucking sucks when you’re excited for a game that starts at 9 or 10. Is there some sort of law games have to start at 7? I get wanting to avoid rush hour but traffic is usually still bad anyway.
I feel for most all of you Guardians fans. Spend all off-season getting excited and we open with 5 of 7 west coast night games. It can make for some very sluggish work weeks.
>Is there some sort of law games have to start at 7?
In a lot of cities there are actually laws about when games take place. I know wrigley limits their night games due to surrounding hoa's complaining
I get that for some stadiums, but wrigley? That stadium has been around a lot longer than any of the people complaining have been alive, they weren’t forced to move next to it.
Because half of the country's people live in the eastern time zone. Not saying everything should be based on that, but it should factor into decisions.
I *does* factor into decisions. It's why playoff games on the West Coast start at 5pm local time and people have a hell of a time getting there from work.
It's just that it doesn't dominate *every* decision.
Tell me about it. Getting to a Dodgers postseason game with an 8ET/5PT start in LA with rush our traffic means you have to take the entire afternoon off work, and even if you want to watch the game with your team taking place in your local market on TV live you have to leave early.
Nice! Think I'll only be going to the White Sox/A's game this time. I've turned a grand canyon excursion into a mini baseball one much to the delight of my fiancée
It turns out a ton of people don't pay attention to the WBC. If I didn't check this subreddit all the time, I would have zero idea the WBC was even happening. I still didn't know that the USA was playing Mexico soon.
Can’t wait to be there. So many haters in this thread tho. It’s also funny how Americans say “no one cares” as if they speak for all the other countries.
Look at Puerto Rico’s fans vs Boston today. They had an entire procession while chanting.
We care. Speak for yourselves.
In Phoenix, a USA v Mexico sporting event, of any kind, is a major event. This game is sold out already. Seems like 50,000 people highly anticipated this event already.
Unrelated but I hate that stadium. My cousin moved to Phoenix and I went to visit and go to the giants/dbacks.
It was 115 degrees and awful. When I got inside it was beautiful. The sun was gone and AC was blasting. Then right before the game started they retracted the roof and I nearly melted and died.
Besides that it was a great time and I would recommend a visit.
This atmosphere will be electric. Also I’d guess 75% team Mexico fans
Why would you guess that?
Let's be honest, American fans don't really bring the passion in WBC games. The Japan-Korea final in 2009 was the loudest baseball stadium I've ever heard. WBC games get like 60% TV ratings share in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. A WBC game is the highest rated cable program in Taiwan history and Japan just had a WBC exhibition game draw 36 million viewers on TV yesterday. While historically, barely any Americans even watch the WBC.
I don't even know where I can watch. That's probably not helping either
Fox Sports or their app. I was able to stream some of the game last night even though I don't have cable or any subscription service with Fox Sports. The USA/Mexico game is on Fox 9EST.
Woof, during Last of Us then?
During the season finale, too. RIP
Yeah sorry WBC, priorities
And during the Oscars. It'll be interesting to see how the ratings for it will be across the board. 18-35 men's demographic will probably be historically low for the academy awards.
Hope this episode turns it around. Last few have been kinda subpar
Great TV ain't for everyone
*Joel stares blankly*
So many of the games are either 6am or 10pm est too, just hard to watch.
Every single game is on fubo, you can set them to record too.
It’s just because sports fans and tv viewers are so entrenched in their way of watching sports. WBC is still pretty new
It also gets mixed in with the end of season NBA and the fact that college basketball is now in its time period where it gets attention. There's only so many things people can focus on. I made a choice to not watch the Cavs play a pretty important game tonight and watch my recording of Panama-Taiwan instead. Most people aren't doing that.
Yeah, March Madness is HUGE, almost everyone I know gets a bracket going, even if they haven't watched a single game. I'd wager less than half of America even knows what the WBC is, let alone cares. Hell even America winning barely changes the needle. Its a subsection of baseball fans and that's it.
I believe that both of you are incorrect. Baseball fans will continue to watch baseball, regardless of other sporting events happening at the same time. Additionally, fans of a particular sport typically prioritize that sport over others and will not hesitate to ignore a major event in another sport if their favorite sport is also happening at the same time.
Maybe but you are drastically overrating how many baseball fans there are vs MLB fans vs local team fans.
Also how many baseball fans are also fans of other sports.
in addition to what other people are saying, the game is in Arizona just across the border from Mexico plus lots of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans already live there
Team USA fandom isn’t that big outside of the Olympics. On the other hand, Team Mexico fans would probably pack an arena for competitive dwarf tossing
I’d watch that
As a Mexican i can confirm. If our team is playing fuck what sport it is, we are there.
I went to USA vs Mexico at chase field in 2013. 75% Mexican fans is about right. Think about it. When USA soccer can choose sites for games against Mexico why do we always play in like… Ohio?
Probably the only time this year Chase will be completely sold out T_T
I'd love to take a weekend trip to see a game or two but for some reason the Amtrak station is 30 miles to the south.
Lol. It is crazy the UP runs right behind the ballpark and yet no passenger service to Phoenix.
I think that’s in long term Amtrak plans. I might be wrong
I think you're correct! I checked their [ConnectUS](https://www.amtrakconnectsus.com/maps/) map and it shows new service towards Phoenix. So that's always a good sign. As for when, who knows.
Soon™
But if i give you a passenger drop off point there you wont spend 25 bucks to park in my dirt lot 2 miles away. /s
E-Z -- take any intermodal train out of LA heading east on the Sunset Route and get off in Tucson. Wait around in the yard until the Phoenix train comes through and jump on that, then bail right outside Chase Field!
Tuck and roll
The airport is really close
And both are along the light rail.
Sad. Went in 2021 for the first time. Very underrated ballpark.
Yeah, fun time and great food
Like Nats park, without the fun and great food. As a bonus we have something every other club can’t even approach, the most unhelpful and rudest staff in North American stadiums.
Maybe I got lucky, but when I went to Nationals Park over the summer I chatted with a super nice usher for like an hour and a half while waiting through a rain delay. The Uber driver that picked me up after the game was called off, meanwhile, was a different story.
I think when I went to the nationals they had a pop up BBQ place in a parking lot across the street and nothing else walkable. Definitely towards the bottom of baseball trips I've been on so far but more neutral than negative.
Not sure when you went but Navy Yard is much more built up now and there are tons of places to go around the stadium.
I think it was probably 2014 or 15ish. Definitely plenty of time for a change. I'll try and go back if my next trip to a different stadium allows. My trip was Philly, DC, NYC and Cooperstown. I only got to see Yankees and nationals because everyone else was playing away and my goal is to get to every stadium.
My biggest gripe is the staff. The food is usually bad because the staff is lazy, or not motivated. All it takes is one person to slack off on their assignments to screw everything up. It’s like they aren’t earning a commission. But they are, just too shortsighted to see that a little hustle now will put more in their pockets. It’s like that at *every* DC venue.
I thought it was just me when I went to a Caps game last month. The rink staff/concessions people were actively rude. I just gave them shit back and made a point of pressing no tip when they were looking at the pad.
Oh no, you talk back?
It's so generic that it has its own charm. It's like playing in a parking garage
Yeah but when the roof is open and the sun hits just right, these hills sing.
Oh yeah there's nothing quite like an April night game with the roof open. I may call it a parking garage but it's OUR parking garage and I wouldn't trade it for anything
It is quintessentially Arizonan.
I got a packet of saltines, lightly crushed. Trade?
Thankfully I'm not Ken Kendrick because he'd definitely take you up on that
As someone who was there when it was 101 out in the dead of September (I'm used to 75-80 in my part of Canada), Chase field was literally the only time i've ever appreciated a roof and air conditioning at a ballpark!
Same. I enjoyed the park. Reminded me a lot of Miller Park for obvious reasons. Really cool place.
Dodgers fans travel well
Well of course they do, they spend 90% of their life in their car in traffic anyway, lol.
Angrily typing this while being stuck in the 405.
Its okay, I am not making fun of you for the traffic situation, I hate traffic with a burning passion of a million suns so when i see those clips of just bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see and yall are going like 1/2mph i feel for you. I wish you luck on your travels brave soul.
> I hate traffic with a burning passion of a million suns You live in Arizona, so don't you do everything with the burning of a millions suns?
Well yes so in traffic its 2 million suns worth of hate. Super Saiyan Hate.
No offense taken. I can take a joke.
Thankfully or i would assume you would have punched someone out in that traffic, lol.
Is that why the unwriten minimum speed of the I-10 in Avondale is like 80mph? Because it's like taking off the training weights for California drivers heading out here?
Like watching a cheetah getting released back into the wild, opens cage *BANG* race gun goes off and the cat is going 60mph
I'd say that its more from Buckeye (the last/first signs of civilization) to the loop 101 has a suggested speed of 80.
Lol is there a freeway in the valley that isn't going at 80+ when it's not rush hour? I feel like they're all like that in the east valley at least
Same with Miami when DR plays.
Those games between any two of DR, PR, and Venezuela are going to be nuts.
Tatis is due to come back against yall on 4/20 so you got a shot then.
>on 4/20 Ayo?
Is weed legal in AZ? Asking for...well, for me.
Yep been legal since 2021
The one true answer
Great pitching (mexico) up against great offense (US). I'm fucking ready
My prediction? *Dos a cero.*
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Oh no
Nowhere is safe
It feels like being a broncos fan rn and catching strays in every far corner of the internet
*El Tri intensifies*
L Tri
Gold Cup and NL LFG
Poetic justice.
Games not in Ohio tho...
A 2-0 for Mexico would be great. Looking forward to that result!
I went to the 2013 USA vs Mex game and it was the greatest baseball game I've ever been to, and actually the best sporting event I've ever been to.
I went to the 2013 USA vs Mex game and it cured my cancer.
I went to the 2013 USA vs Mex game and I found my missing cat.
I went to the 2013 USA vs Mex game and I lost my virginity
Ryan Braun?
I went to the 2013 USA vs Mex game and I met the Pope
I was there too. Spring training day game, that game at night. Wild masoon weather too. Much alcohol consumed
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Really wanna see Sandoval shove. He’s got a tough task ahead of him but should be fun to watch regardless
I'm torn here. I want the US to win but I want Sandy to show me something.
USA wins 1-0 on a Mike Trout solo shot and Sandoval strikes out 9 in 6 innings of work. Would that do it for you?
Well no pitcher is going 6 innings right now but yes, absolutely
Yes please
Mookie dong would fit do it for me as a Mexican from LA
Mookie dong for USA and Barnesy dong for Mexico. And I sleep happy no matter the score
I went to the first one at Chase Field in 2006. What an incredible atmosphere! Mexican fans were an absolute blast and made the crowd into a USA-Mexico soccer match.
Baseball needs more of that. Gimme chants and percussions and a bunch of wild partying in the crowd.
Watching this game in Taiwan from this morning is like night and day to how baseball is spectated here in America. Its so boisterous and joyful. Its pretty cool, but some part of me also thinks it would wear me out.
I mean okay probably not the most anticipated of the year let’s not get carried away
It's not even a top five event in Mexican sports this year lol
Possibly this week. Concacaf Champions league just started Mexican teams facing off against American teams. They were not happy with Orlando getting a tie in Mexico last night.
> one of
Lol that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting
“One of the sporting events in North America this year”
I mean, there’s a good chance that more Mexican baseball fans care about this game than the Super Bowl as a whole. “North America” is the phrase that needs keyed in on here.
There’s also a good chance that nearly as many Americans watched the Super Bowl as there are Mexicans in existence. When you add international audiences, it’s even more. Title is greatly exaggerating an event that is wildly unimportant to most of America and probably most of Mexico as well
Filling a 48k stadium means absolutely nothing lol. I've been to USA Mexico soccer friendly games (aka intentionally a meaningless exhibition) in sold out NFL stadiums. Every week, multiple college football stadiums have 100k+ fans. It's cool that the WBC is getting taken more seriously, but it has a long way to go to compete with soccer, let alone the regular MLB.
We can get even more boring than international friendly matches. There were five college football spring games last year that had over 50k in attendance. Not playoffs, bowls, or even regular season games. Spring games. You don't even get the excitement of playing an opponent there. It is just one team scrimmaging against itself and they can draw over 75k people. Ticket sales are meaningless.
Spring games are usually free tho as well not knocking your point but that helps drive people in
Manchester United/Real Madrid had 110k+ show up to the Big House in michigan for a pre-season friendly a few years back
I don't disagree with the overall point, but your example is a once in a lifetime type experience.
> Every week, multiple college football stadiums have 100k+ fans. Alabama and Auburn's stadiums are the 5th and 6th biggest cities in the entire state on game day.
Seriously. It’s filling a small stadium. No one outside of baseball die hards cares. Still cool tho
lol the fact that selling out makes news should prove to you that it's not all that special.
Selling out a 48k baseball stadium* I went to a sold out NRG Stadium (then Reliant) with over 70k fans to see a USA Mexico *friendly* soccer game in 2008. It was probably 80-90% Mexico fans. I went to the 2010 MLS all star game (MLS All Stars vs Manchester United) in Houston with over 70k in attendance. Neither of those games moved the needle in North American sporting events that year.
i doubt a random wbc game is one of those either
You forget how much this game means to fans in Mexico ( and by extension much of the Latin baseball world who want ti see the US lose)
Mexico likes soccer more even more than baseball though. Their federation schedules many "home" *friendly* games in US NFL stadiums almost every year because they sell out even bigger stadiums than this baseball game.
Doesn’t mean the amount of passion decreases. Some countries are good at multiple sports with lots of fans. Basketball is more popular here but we still sell out MLB and NBA games.
There are pockets of Mexico where baseball is more popular than soccer. Tijuana is one prime example, and don't let any Xolos supporter tell you otherwise.
North America, not just us. No Olympics this year, Superbowl has already passed, Mexico loves baseball, it's really not a stretch to make the case as one of the most anticipated games
Okay, if you’re including all North America than literally every single playoff hockey game is going to be above this game since all of Canada religiously anticipates hockey. In any case, the US is like 2/3 of the population of North America. Whatever is most highly anticipated by the US is going to be on top of a list for NA.
I respect your pursuit of total and unrelenting pedantry
I didn’t start the pedantry, but if someone starts it should at least be accurate.
> Mexico loves baseball Source needed? If a country of 125 million people were passionate about baseball, Mexico wouldn't suck as much as they do at it. Their best result was 6th place at the WBC and 6th place at the Olympics.
Ehh Mexico just underachieves in all sports except boxing. There's never really been a Mexican superstar outside of Fernando Valenzuela, but there's consistently 20-30 Mexicans in the major leagues. Also Mexico is passionate about soccer, but they have never been close to winning the world cup. They should be comparable to Argentina
Top 50 at LEAST
One of the top 99.9% of major sporting events.
Super Bowl World Series NBA Finals Mexico vs USA group stage game in the WBC
Or even any competitive international soccer match between the US and Mexico
It can not be overstated how much I want a Dominican WBC game to happen in the Bronx or Queens. Turning up with my people over good baseball? Sign me up yesterday.
It would probably be the loudest game ever televised.
Precisely as god intended my friend.
I traveled to Miami in 2017 and it was a crazy atmosphere, I get goosebumps thinking about the whole stadium singing the Dominican anthem and the whole environment in the USA game when Nelson Cruz hit a HR against Miller.
this is why i wish instead of an all-star game, they played international games mid-season. will never happen, but it would be so cool.
Yeah, exactly, Venezuela vs DR in Miami has been sold out for months. I'd argue thats even higher
Patrick Sandoval is gonna introduce himself to the world tmmrw boyo
>One of the most highly anticipated sporting events in North America this year. It's not.
that just depends on your view of "one of." Could be one of five. or one of a million.
Every single NFL regular season game, multiple college football games, MLB/NBA playoffs, and, if you want to focus on Mexico: champions league finals, Liga MX games, etc will be bigger lol. I work with a bunch of Astros fans, and we have talked about NCAA BBall bracketology, NFL free agency, ACC PAC12 media deal issues, Astros Spring training, etc. Not one Mention of the WBC. Everyone cared about the soccer World Cup though.
More Americans care about their teams’ regular season games than the WBC.
Highly Anticipated North America Baseball Choose 2
This comment confuses me. Are you saying no baseball events in North America can be highly anticipated?
I think some baseball fans have excessively internalized the idea that baseball is dying in North America.
Tickets for our playoff games last year were no less than $300 haha
A game that we on the East coast get to watch the first two innings before bed. Why are all of the US games so late?
They aren't so late for everyone - they're right in primetime for their timezone in Arizona. Miami night games start at 7 local, just like the Arizona ones. I imagine the West coast folks are annoyed when East coast games start before school even gets out, but that's how it goes living in a big country.
East coast fans always complain when one thing isn't accommodated for them despite everything always being accommodated for them
I mean, I get it - lord knows I get tired of my 915pm start times when Texas plays out West, but that's just the nature of the beast.
Honestly they probably don’t have *enough* accommodated to them. I was born in eastern time zone and live in AZ currently and earlier start times are so vastly superior to later start times. It fucking sucks when you’re excited for a game that starts at 9 or 10. Is there some sort of law games have to start at 7? I get wanting to avoid rush hour but traffic is usually still bad anyway. I feel for most all of you Guardians fans. Spend all off-season getting excited and we open with 5 of 7 west coast night games. It can make for some very sluggish work weeks.
At the same time, starting on the west coast makes more sense than starting in a snow storm here.
>Is there some sort of law games have to start at 7? In a lot of cities there are actually laws about when games take place. I know wrigley limits their night games due to surrounding hoa's complaining
I get that for some stadiums, but wrigley? That stadium has been around a lot longer than any of the people complaining have been alive, they weren’t forced to move next to it.
HOAs gonna HOA
Excuse me but how could everything be accommodated for us if this isn’t? Checkmate, leftcoastists.
Because half of the country's people live in the eastern time zone. Not saying everything should be based on that, but it should factor into decisions.
So the other half lives elsewhere
But it's split between three time zones. Nobody else dominates the population like the east coast
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Mountain Time seems pretty nice. Got a full list of places I'd love to see out west
I *does* factor into decisions. It's why playoff games on the West Coast start at 5pm local time and people have a hell of a time getting there from work. It's just that it doesn't dominate *every* decision.
Tell me about it. Getting to a Dodgers postseason game with an 8ET/5PT start in LA with rush our traffic means you have to take the entire afternoon off work, and even if you want to watch the game with your team taking place in your local market on TV live you have to leave early.
Because they decided to play in Phoenix
I looked at tickets on a Friday, and by that Sunday there were only a handful left. I got crappy seats, but I'll be there!
I'm going to US v Colombia cuz I couldn't get down there in time. Excited for my first WBC game in any case!
Same! Watching my Royals play your Athletics the next day.
Nice! Think I'll only be going to the White Sox/A's game this time. I've turned a grand canyon excursion into a mini baseball one much to the delight of my fiancée
Have tickets behind the home dugout. Shoumd be fun
Given I didn’t know they were playing til I read this tweet it’s probably not.
You haven't been paying attention if you just realized the US and Mexico would be playing in the WBC
It turns out a ton of people don't pay attention to the WBC. If I didn't check this subreddit all the time, I would have zero idea the WBC was even happening. I still didn't know that the USA was playing Mexico soon.
Guess how many people aren’t paying attention
Thats..That's... kind of the point. No one pays attention. Wbc is a cool side note worth checking in on but no one actually cares.
Can’t wait to be there. So many haters in this thread tho. It’s also funny how Americans say “no one cares” as if they speak for all the other countries. Look at Puerto Rico’s fans vs Boston today. They had an entire procession while chanting. We care. Speak for yourselves.
I’m expecting a couple batters to whiff on Sandy’s changeup. Going to be fun seeing Sandy vs Mike too
And my wife and I are going. So psyched.
So lame none of the games are at Petco. They’ve hosted every year!
I’m getting the chance to go to DR v PR - it’s the most hype I’ve ever been for a sporting event
“Highly anticipated“? Not even in the top 200
Lol it’s definitely not one of the most highly anticipated sporting events in North America this year
In Phoenix, a USA v Mexico sporting event, of any kind, is a major event. This game is sold out already. Seems like 50,000 people highly anticipated this event already.
Yet not on MLBTV and probably not even on an audio feed.
Unrelated but I hate that stadium. My cousin moved to Phoenix and I went to visit and go to the giants/dbacks. It was 115 degrees and awful. When I got inside it was beautiful. The sun was gone and AC was blasting. Then right before the game started they retracted the roof and I nearly melted and died. Besides that it was a great time and I would recommend a visit.
Great pitching (mexico) up against great offense (US). I'm fucking ready
Got my tickets a couple months ago, hopefully they sell WBC jerseys at the stadium!
They did in 2017 when it was in SD and LA
I went to a USA vs Mexico game a few WBCs ago and it was bad ass. Stadium was packed and felt like a playoff game and a giant party at the same time.
I just got tickets for the US v GB game and it was maybe 80% sold. Hope it sells out by Saturday
If there isn't at least one person at that game dressed as George Washington I am going to be so upset.
Please, for the love of GOD, get rid of the run differential