Why Basketball sells better than Baseball
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 13. 05. 2024
- If you look at global statistics, football is unchallenged at the top with about four billion fans. But another ball game has turned into a lucrative and rapidly growing export hit - responsible for billion-euro deals in broadcasting rights and sportswear: basketball. The game is expected to have more than 800 million fans around the globe.
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00:00 NBA vs. MLB
03:45 Basketballâs breakthrough in China
05:38 Looking at numbers
06:37 The Difference: Global Superstars
08:30 Merchandising
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Short answer: Baseball didn't like Michael Jordan so he took it personal. He's still trying to destroy the game ever since.
what are you talking about
@@grahamsullivan1385 well Michael Jordan retired from basketball twice. The first time he retired he tried to play baseball but that didn't work out too well. He was really bad. Also a big part of the NBA's marketability us directly linked to mj.
@@starrbergman2671 He doesn't hate baseball or have animosity for the game I'm not sure why you think that.
@@grahamsullivan1385 it's a joke
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The NBA has always done a better job of marketing the players individually and building a lifestyle around basketball. Baseball is very much against modern marketing.. no idea why!
Because it's run by old people that are too afraid of change
NBA and the media around it has adopted the reality show marketing that gets it coverage on every platform
The fans go for those old looking stadiums
or maybe MLB knows that it's sport is too complicated to be marketed to non-English speakers. Even the uniforms are stylized to look old, it's like they're content with marketing to old dudes
@Ulises Leon I wouldnât say Latin America more Latin Caribbean the rest likes soccer/football
Friendly reminder that March madness creates 900 million dollars and the players see 0 money
I wonder what they do with the money đ€đ€đ€
Yup, March Madness is about 80-90% of the NCAA's $1 billion+ revenue
Exploitation 101
they use that money to develop more facilities and give more scholarships to students that's why players don't get money
Their fault for choosing to play d1 over going overseas for money
Basketball is just so much fun. The culture you can spend your whole life balling. Your wardrobe and lifestyle can be worked around basketball
Same with baseball. You always see people with mlb jerseys and caps on. How many Yankees and Dodgers things you see everywhere in the world.
@@kingrazo10 bro i see yankee merch all the time but never dodgers but if im being honest its like for every baseball merch there are 10 lebron jerseys and 100 Air jordan shoes
@@YeezyFan3128 hello bron
@@YeezyFan3128 same with mlb caps tho. Hats are very popular these days seems like every other person wears one just go to any classroom or public space. And most of the time itâs an mlb hat, even tho they make nba ones and other sports mlb clearly took over when it came to hats just like nba with sneakers
@@kingrazo10 you probably live in north America here in Germany you can see a lot of Jordan shoes but nothing about Baseball outside the USA Basketball is just way more successful and also marketable.
When thereâs five people on the court, itâs easier for people to identify stars.
especially when the taller you are the easier the sport is for you... give a massive advantage to players with both skills and height there for can dominate way more
@@MannyMM age of the 3 pointer would like to disagree
But there are 22 players on a soccer field so I donât think it should be that complicated.
@@bartekmostek4850 players with height AND skill still have an advantage. You can't teach height but if a tall guy is also skilled he has a huge advantage. Looking at all the unicorns recently
@@pluvio154 oh yes I was only saying that the gap has closed a bit due to the age of the 3 pointer being upon us
Basketball also has the hip-hop/rap, shoe, fashion culture making it even more popular compared to baseball.
Ainât no rapper wearing a nba hat lmao
@@spitonitpawpaw7049 u missed the point
@A.K.Chhatrapati I can definitely tell you were not old enough to watch Jordan
@@spitonitpawpaw7049 da baby.
@@spitonitpawpaw7049 are you dumb? Thereâs a song called BOP on Broadway by dababy that has over 380 million views. In the video he is wearing a Charlotte hornets jersey and Charlotte hornets sweat pants. Drake is always dripped out in raptors clothes. Do you even watch modern rap lol?
Baseball: I am a long-ass game
Me: laughs in test cricket
But sometimes test cricket is more interesting than baseball , eg the gabba test of 2021
@@saleelgaidhani3732 yes, but I am sure many people watch only the final session or final day live. Because you can see everything important in the highlights anyway
@@dnavaneet Count me in too
@@dnavaneet that's the problem both games share.
In cricket players get to hit the ball sometimes though. Baseball is full of strikes, foul balls, and walks from balls. Way too rare to see a batter actually hit the fuckin ball. Really ruined the watchability for me
I remember it started out as baseball for me growing up as a kid and then the Micheal Jordan phenomenon happened. You could see a commercial, ask your dad to lower the hoop go outside and practice his dunk or moves. You could shoot a 3 and pretend to be Bird, make a behind the back pass and pretend to be Magic. I think the marketing of the stars really allows you to be them for a moment and feel good, which is why you'll buy into something that further helps you pretend.
"The game of basketball explains itself"
Harden: hold my stepbacks
All it is is James finds more loopholes in the rules than capone and those before him found in prohibition laws
@@bartekmostek4850 just makes you think what is Hardenâs tax evasion in this metaphor
@@joneatsbagels7239 oh shit you right.
@@joneatsbagels7239 his double stepback
Players like Harden destroy the game!
Let's be real, it's much easier to understand, i'm not a fan of either but i'm sure i know most of the rules of Basketball and when you play just for fun there is basically no rules, to this day idk how Baseball, cricket or american football works and you can't just play these sports with a friend of yours, you need equipment for baseball, bat, glove and what not, unless you just play ''throw and catch'' or whatever.
Exactly, whenever i watch baseball i dont know what is going on, when i watch basketball its just put ball in hoop
@@mohamedelbanna8425 more time than other team
It mostly depends on where you live, but in France elementary and middle schools propose Baseball as a mandatory sport class. We played it on football field. They didn't need to dumb down the rules, what you need to grasp to play is actually simple - It's not rugby union. I bet the 188 pages are more about definitions and the run of overall league than how the game should be played. As far as the needed gear goes the minimum thing required is a bat. You only need an "armour" if there's someone behind the batter. Sure it's better if there are gloves for everyone but, if not, that's still a pleasant game to play "low cost". And that's probably why some schools propose it to their pupils. Basket is not that much simple with its rules. It's just everything happens quicker. Some rules are only there to prevent slow pacing - and if referees have to intervene it feels more seamless on your TV.
@@Thorpal It might also depend on where you live in France/or on the facilities of your school because it has never been mandatory in my schools (and from what I know of other schools around). But! We had a derivative of baseball, much simpler, called ThĂšque. I had it as part of one of the trimester programs at least once out of the four years of middle school (each year in september, you need to choose one program out of three or four, for example: first trimester, football, second semester, athletics and third, handball). Nice trip down memory lane :)
I agree though, you just need a bat and a ball.
I would never watch baseball on TV though. Basketball, on the other hand, is a fun game to watch!
@@mohamedelbanna8425 YNWA đđœ
I honestly just got into baseball and itâs actually very interesting itâs hard not to like something after being educated on it
True bro,the game is very interesting if you understand it in depth. I am indian and i got introduced to baseball last year and now i wake up at 5.00 to watch baseball games.
@@saleelgaidhani3732 honestly this so true. I have been playing since I was 4 and its not like other sports. You dont need the "perfect body" or to be super tall or to have no fat. All of those things can help you in baseball, but its more about mechanics and knowing how to play rather than your body. You can be 6'4 200 pounds and be just as good as someone who is 5'5 150 pounds.
Videogames is a good place to start. It's how I got into football. Currently if you have a PS4/PS5 or Xbox you can give MLB the Show a go. Once you get into the perspective of a batter/pitcher and understand on a rudimentary level what they are trying to do out there, it's very interesting. The face off between PItcher vs. Batter especially in high leverage situations is a mental (and physical) chess match that I think has no comparison in any sport, and if you understand probabilities in baseball it can be fascinating how a single pitch in a certain situation can send the probabilities of a team winning crashing to one side or the other.
Except chemistry. Iâve been forced to take chemistry classes in college and I definitely donât like chemistry still after being educated on it
ok. This is a useless comment. This comment provides nothing to the actual video.
basketball is also very popular in the Philippines, eastern Europe, and the 2nd most popular sport in places like Spain, Argentina, etc.
@@unclephillymya damn, I never knew that. I thought soccer would be the most popular there
Basketball is mostly popular in Argentina because of manu ginobili
@@unclephillymya He's talking about basKeTball, not baseball.
Futbol rules in spain & argentina & basketball itâs not really that popular tho itâs known but not popular
@@rayonensb It's the second most popular sport in both.
Basketball like football is something anyone with a ball can pick up and do on their own (obv need a basket for bball and just a wall for football) it's just a simple accessibility issue
Yeah and with more and more people moving to crowded cities the space required for public basketball courts is much less than baseball.
All you really need is a wall something to put a ball in and a ball
You donât really beed a wall, you can use a pair of shoes as the goalposts
@@sulamy1955 you could, but if you're on your own you'll be doing more chasing of the ball than kicking it đ
@@sulamy1955 when I was a kid we used to mark the curbs on the street with chalk and use them as goalposts, thats how accessible football is
Love this channel, learn something every video
That applies to your channel as well.
Hey bro you are here.đđđ
Nice to see you here
Next video: why is football/soccer not so popular in the US (yet)
Very true
for me it's the simplicity and quick action that makes basketball one of my favourite sports to watch
Watch European sport you will like it.
The Knicks havenât been good in God knows how long and they sell more around the world than recent champs?
Big market, which is one of the main reasons they can be one the worse teams and still be talked about as if theyâre winning
@LopezElite_YT this video came out right before the season started. 11 games donât eclipse 20 years of mediocrity.
@LopezElite_YT the fact that being 5-6 is really exciting to u shows how bum of an organization knicks are ur not making playoffs
@LopezElite_YT damn 5-6 is pretty good now? I want what knicks fans smoke lol
New York
The one thing that was not very accurate is that baseball does have many international players. Lots of players and even star players in the MLB are from the Dominican Republic for example. There are many players from Cuba, Japan, Venezuela, and more. It is true that it has not reached big markets like China and Europe though.
It does for the Netherlands through the Netherlands Antilles. Maybe the same goes for French, but don't know about that.
Dominican Republic doesn't have a economy as big as China , Germany, Serbia , Spain though and from these mentioned countries basketball players come.
I was thinking the same thing. Lots of international talent in baseball, just not from Europe, or English speaking countries. Although it can't be argued that basketball doesn't have bigger international stars.
Thatâs what I was about to write. Latinos are very common kn the league
They have players. Just not household name level stars
Some topics I think would make interesting content:
* The recent expansion in the NHL with the Vegas Golden Knights and Seattle Kraken
* Sports arenas purpose construction and their impact on the cities, particularly in regard to one-time events like a FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros or the Olympics
* Pros and cons about "import" restrictions in sports leagues, e.g. a lot of sports league in nations only allow a team to have a set amount of foreign players
* Professional wrestling, particularly in regard to WWE finally having a domestic competitor in AEW in the U.S.
* Systems of relegation vs. a closed competition league, e.g. the swiss top hockey league is currently trying to go remove relegation and become a closed system
* Sports as a subject for another kind of media, e.g. what does it take to make a sports movie and how do you procure the rights for teams and the ability to film in stadiums, etc.
Yeah brother pro wrrrrestling
The "Sports arenas topic" would be very interesting. I would like to know that as well.
Relegation vs closed competition is also interesting. Especially because you brought a Swiss example.
Some nice ideas there. I'd like to add that in rugby some nations only allow players on their national teams when they play domestically. And interestingly the German ice hockey league is considering to open up to relegation again.
great topic ideas
To be honest aew isn't that big of a competitor for wwe their viewership has decreased a lot since it's debut on 2019
I really like baseball, It's about the only sport I watch at this point, but I absolutely understand why people find it boring. It takes a lot of time and understanding to find what's happening interesting every minute of the game, understanding pitching strategy and complicated stats definitely help with my enjoyment, but that took years to learn and understand deeply. Basketball however is overall pretty simple.
Bro do u first know anything about basketball and cricket
Baseball isnt boring.its different đbut its easier to understand baseball than FOOTBALLđ¶
I understand baseball played until HS & watched till collegeâŠItâs just insufferably BORING. If I feel this way as an adult I canât imagine how younger generations w/near zero attention spans will watch. MLB in BIG trouble
"Only few americans watch soccer" This is really untrue depending on the region. Soccer is the only sport in which all three big cities in the pacific northwest (Portland, Seattle, vancouver) have a team and they're all HUGE up here.
As for baseball, it's not popular at all up here. That said, knowing who's up to bat and who can score isn't complicated in the least. The rest of the little rules can be.
Mean while basketball is the biggest sport in this region. Always has been.
The hardest part about getting interest in baseball (outside of MLB ownership, broadcast rights, etc) is the best way to experience it is in person with a friend and a crowd around you. And the only way that really lasts longer than a day with people is if they have played before and can really understand what it is they are watching.
Understanding rules aside, not knowing what it feels like to stand in the box and have your legs buckle from a curveball doesn't easily translate.
And the biggest issue that really can't be changed is just how terrible baseball is as a TV viewer. It's baked into how the game is played and there really isn't anything that can be done about it without it becoming a different sport. Not just pace of play, but the most effective way to play the game is absolutely the least flashy as the goal is to have defenders be as irrelevant and stand as still as possible.
Baseball is extremely fun to watch in person as it might be the sport with some of the most direct interaction between the crowd and the game. Thatâs where I understand the name âAmericaâs pass timeâ but I donât think Iâve ever seen a baseball game on Tv. Itâs much less entertaining unless youâre really into the sport.
@@chasencage4092 Baseball stopped a black man named MICHAEL JORDAN from creating fun in baseball due to unwritten rules so he started playing basketball and destroyed baseball for good as his own vengeance.
@@JonSnow-pi6jb I donât think thatâs how the story went
@@chasencage4092 so you tell me why black folks don't like/play baseball ? In 21st century if you are not with black America you are destined to be doomed.
@@JonSnow-pi6jb a lot of black Americans do play baseball though. Probably not as much as whites or Hispanics but they definitely Do.
the Mets drive me to my emotional limits on an almost daily basis but if they aren't playing I can't watch a baseball game without getting bored by the 3rd inning
That's normal. Baseball is very regional.
Yeah i cannot watch a basketball game without getting bored out of my mind unless my team is playing
Become a Yankees fan so that you get dissapointed in October.
Yeah I feel like watching basketball you can never leave the tv because you feel like your gonna miss something each time because anything can happen at any time. In baseball there is a possibility that you could sit on the toilet for 30 minutes come back and miss nothing. And as a admittedly zoomer by attention spam is like 3 minutes when it comes to watching sports. And baseball rarely makes the cut. Now I like the sport baseball but itâs just boring to watch a full game. I always watch clips of it instead of having to wait every 10 minutes for something mildly exiting to happen.
I feel the same way but with most sports; if I donât care about either team itâs super boring
I think the reason why football âœïž is ahead of other sports is because you just need a ball to play i remember when i was a kid in my grandparents village we used to make goals by putting two stones as bars n we make the ball out of cloth n papers
Ye all you need is just a ball and some mateirals
Simpler to make for Half Court (3 x 3) game only, though
I live in england, and I was brought up to love playing football, or as americans would say soccer, I eventually grew outta love with it and found basketball and ever since I've never looked back. The amount of time and practice you can put all by urself just because u have a ball and hoop is sick and there's so many areas that u can work on when u practice.
Yh man itâs like you see a move and you just wanna do it
I follow both sports i support the cavaliers and liverpool
I gotta ask, what's the popularity of basketball in England because apparently there's actually a surprising amount of basketball courts in cities in England last I checked though the populace still doesn't seem to be down with it like that.
@@KiraDaBeastNY for where I live it's not that popular, especially compared to football. And it shows, the courts where I am are usually really terrible- having no nets etc. But ik in London there are some good courts and I think interest might be abit higher
@@thomaslodoiska8455 i lived in both countries and always loved football in the usa first, same with basketball, there was a couple of people in my year in england who watched basketball like 6 outta 100+ or so
Love the content, maybe you could do a video on Formula One, Iâd love to see that! Iâm sure there are a lot of fans out there too!
Me too
Yes please.
great idea! would love to watch an insight into the f1 as well đđŸ
I would like to offer expertise in Global Motorsport Management / Direction (including the likes of MotoGP & F1) in doing that episode haha
@@ConorEdgar lol, perhaps u could help my channel toođ€Łđ€Ł
im from mozambique i love the nba support the golden state warriors but i never watch live games because they are at 3 or 2 in the morning here!
Same man I'm from South Africa I catch the Q4 of the west coast games around 7am
@@jaques6523 I'm from South Africa too, I'm only ever able to catch the weekend games
@@sbonelomsibi2955 yesterday was great tho the games was on at a nice time
@@jaques6523 how does it feel to wake up to players whoâve stayed up for the whole previous night?
@Nazario Dos Santos im from zimbabwe and same đđ
Basketball just looks more impressive than baseball when I see people play it at the highest level and the fast pace is much more exciting.
How though, hitting in baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports
@Buddha It's true though, the single hardest thing to do in all of sports is to hit a baseball off of a major league pitcher, I doubt you could even hit off of a NCAA pitcher
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That is completely ridiculous. It's comical. There are many things more difficult in sports than hitting a little freaking ball with a stick where everyone is standing without physical distraction. Boring to the point of insanity. That's not sport, that's stupidity.
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@milosjovicevic6083 Factoring in average reaction time perception of an image, you have 0.15 seconds. Along with movements on the ball, and off speed and breaking balls, hitting a baseball is extremely hard. Try to hit a 87 mph slider with multiple inches of break from 60 feet.
As someone the UK, I much prefer basketball. Way easier to follow the results and we've already got cricket. I imagine it's the same in India and Australia, Baseball's just too similar for anyone to get excited for it after following the established sport. Also cricket's got international matches and short form matches so there's more variety.
Yep, and even tho baseball is similar the point system is very confusing compared to cricket. And ICC would be just few years away to acknowledge and host the t10 games which has a total run time of nearly 2 hours(including the innings break).
Thereâs also international baseball matches
Jordan and Dream Team made game globally in Barca in 92, plus David Stern always try to expend the game globally and it paid off, bc a lot of today's superstars are not from America, plus basketball is more fun to watch then Baseball
Many international superstars in the NBA have spoken about the influence the Dream Team had on them. Dirk grew up with a poster of MJ and Pippen in his bedroom.
The dream team did a lot but Magic and Bird in the 80s helped do it in the 80s with their rivalry
@@vanthom9185 Well it's more like Bird and Magic laid a new foundation for the sport domestically and reinvigorated it in the US. Then Jordan built off the era took it into stratosphere due to how they marketed him, and the Dream Team happens with those 3 legends on the same team which creates a global popularity explosion, then it's the rise of International stars in the NBA which solidifies it.
But I agree it all starts with the Magic vs Bird/Lakers vs Celtics rivalry which was just awesome. I think them being different races and being equals in talent really added to the mythos of it culturally.
basketball is just better for dumbass fans that want to see buzzer beaters. they dont have the attention span or emotional intelligence to really understand baseball. like yeah basketball showcases improvisation but the end of the day its just about big people putting a ball in a hole the at arms reach.
@@wandcamilo3989 baseball will never surpass basketball in terms of global popularity
It seems to me that the fact that many basketball players look like super-human giants is a factor which makes it easier to market, and it also gives some additional value for sponsorship deals.
As per usual, another amazing video, with wonderful editing, but what's more, my country Croatia being mentioned and my favorite artist of all-time, Travis Scott also being included in the video
Athletic Interest thank You and keep up the good work
Also when you attend a NBA game you are a lot closer to the court compared to MLB. I've also noticed that it is far easier to see what is going on in a basketball game than a baseball game. Baseball is still my favorite sport to watch and play because I grew up in a family that watched a lot of baseball and football(American). My favorite teams are the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
Yeah, seeing in detail what's going on is a lot harder in baseball than in basketball or football.
The 90s was the golden age of basketball with superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman and many more Plus the Dream Team dominated the 1992 Olympics
To be fair, Magic Johnson's prime was in the 80s but I understand
@@JayTechZM Yeah, gracias for understanding
9:27 out of all the pictures that they could have picked for mj, they chose the picture with the number 12 lol
Lol melo sucks
You missed a really important fact. I'm from Europe, apart from the European stars that play/ed in NBA, a huge reason that we watch it here is because there's basketball courts everywhere, we play ball in school, but I have never seen a baseball bat in my life.
What country do you live in, in Europe? I'm just curious cause I know how Eastern Europe get down, we got love for them over here in America, cause they always produced hoopers, but aside from France, Spain, and maybe Italy Western Europe not so much. If you've watched some TNT broadcasts multiple retired NBA players who now commentate even joke about how "if your name ends with -ic, you can play" cause of how prolific Eastern European hoopers are.
@@KiraDaBeastNY Eastern European hoopers with ic in their name are from ex Yugoslavia countries (from the Balkans).
Baseball has no presence in Europe or Africa. Itâs popular in the Hispanic Caribbean countries and Japan and Taiwan
iâve truly tried to get into baseball recently but I physically canât sit down and watch a whole game in itâs entirety.
Try going to a game with some of your friends or try rooting for a team. Itâs a lot easier to get invested into something if you are physically there and you have some attachment to what you are watching
Wait for the playoffs, the regular season can be a drag but the playoffs are very high intensity and historic
Great content! Kudos to the whole team behind these awesome videos!
u were at 30k the other day đł, glad I subbed from the start
The Quality of this channel is High..
Love it!!!!!!!!!!
Great video, something you havenât accounted for is that a lot of these rules in baseball have been around for over a century and games in the early 1900s could still be recognizable. Although there are a lot rules, they never change
Thanks for the awesome videos
I would be interested in a video about the FIBA vs. Euroleague dispute in Basketball.
He pronounced Dirk Nowitzki as perfectly as anyone has ever pronounced anyone's name, ever.
cuz the guy is German
Every German f*cking loooooooves Dirk. So everyone knows exactly how to spell him :)
I'm a guy who enjoys all team based sports. Nice video! I think you could had also added some things about Baseball such as other competitions like the Caribbean Series, other leagues outside North America like the KBO in South Korea and the NBP in Japan and (In my opinion) how having "Unwritten rules" is affecting baseball in a negative way.
and trust me, NPB's unwritten rules, closely knitted to Japanese military tradition, initially killed KBO at its beginning. but nowadays KBO is a league with unwavering swagger.
Baseball's day-to-day schedule is the appeal of the sport. A new game every day. For many North Americans, it represents summer, little or no pressing responsibilities, and day out with friends at the ballpark. Think of it as social media long before the internet existed. That the season begins in Spring and ends in Autumn creates strong and vivid emotions and passion for the game.
I think a video focusing on Motorsport would be interesting as itâs not always regarded as sport and maybe bring up Motorsports position in the global sports market
Agree
Since Athletic Interest already made a video about F1, I think rally or motocross would be the most obvious choices.
@@gonzalot.605 don't forget Moto GP
Even in the US, baseball is gradually loosing popularity compared to American football and basketball. Mostly itâs our older generations that keep viewership during the regular season
Not really man baseball is great itâs not filled with egotistical big headed maniacs that is the nba and the nba is nothing but a political shot show now. I stopped watching nba. And not to mention baseball takes way more skill itâs a way harder sport
@@spitonitpawpaw7049 baseball is losing popularity bro I know it hurts to accept it but baseball it's not what it once was
@@johansencontreras2186 World Series had double the viewership the last NBA finals had
The problem baseball has is if you didn't grow up playing the game, you're most likely not going to be a fan later in life. I love and play both, but I prefer baseball. It really is the ultimate team sport while still highlighting pure individual talent., Trout is genuinely one of the best to ever do it, but stars don't really win in baseball, u need a stacked team, bullpen, rotation. It's hard to market that, whereas in the NBA if you have a few good players ur team will always be pretty decent.
The NBA is the Same thing as MLB.
@@sacramentokingswillrise7525 no
This is quality content. I love baseball, but it is hard to argue against anything in this video.
I'm a European baseball player; our D1 league looks like your darkest bush league you'll find in the US đđą
Lol respect for playing it tho
@@projectc.j.j3310 Thanks đ
Ich wusste nicht mal das man in Deutschland in einer Baseball Liga spielen kann đ
Awesome video as always! Iâd love to see your analysis of any or all of the following:
-growing impact / influence of American players abroad such as Pulisic
- Your POV on MLS
- Rapha / cycling culture both as sport and transportation
- Surf culture
- Another interesting analysis could be on the history of political footballers. It seems most are manicured / branded individuals without much personality off the pitch. Is there a history of stars standing for something beyond the expected charities, youth programs etc, but like climate change, political / economic systems etc?
2:44 Spot on. For some reason, when I watch Baseball on the TV, I immediately want to clean my room. I dont know why, but I like it đ
You could make a similar-ish video about the NHL's inability to adapt and grow hockey. They have a game that with better officiating and marketing could rival basketball due to its pace of play, and definitely should be challenging baseball more. Hockey fans routinely refer to the situation as "best sport, worst league". I bet that you could find numbers to back that up and make an interesting video.
As a Canadian, hockey is simply too expensive for it to get to the level of basketball or football (soccer). People like to identify with sports that they played as a kid and most kids don't get the chance to play. I will say that those who've I've managed to get into the sport by taking them to live games and explaining the rules really enjoyed it and a lot are still fans today
Nice video.. i Think it coud be interesting to see what a footballer that have not been on any Big stage do when they retires
keep up the good work
*Basebal Bat in Japan, Cuba and USA* - Used for *Baseball*
*Baseball Bat in my country* - Used for *Self-Defense*
In US too
Cool video and very interesting content!! Although I must add that NBA games, when watched live, last 2,5 hours most of the time, not 90-120min. FIBA games are much shorter on average because there are less interruptions. I am a European NBA fan so I watch most of the games a day later, when all the interruptions and timeouts have been cut out - and then a game lasts about 90min, which is totally fine with me. Watching them live (or just about any American sport) is often quite a pain in the a.. Too many timeouts and commercial breaks.
I love baseball because Iâve played it since I was a young lad but I canât deny that Iâve gotten more into basketball in recent years
Basketball is pretty simple to pick up and play like football, get a ball although you do need one hoop. Baseball you need bases, a ball, a bat, mitts, and etc.
And itâs easier to understand whatâs going on when watching.
I really think you could do a video on Tony Parker and his post nba career. Became full owner chairman of ASVEL basketball club in Lyon and has one of the biggest markets among nba players in China due to his many Chinese partnerships. Many say he could become the next Oly,pique Lyonnais president one day.
Just discovered your channel and subbed. Your videos are great! Really informative, fun visuals, interesting stats. This video helped me put the recent controversy involving China and the NBA into perspective. I didnât realize how much revenue China generated for the league.
Thank you!
Lovely stuff, can we see something like "The Business Of Anthony Joshua"
I would be very much interested on your take on esports, given that it has very high viewership , and several PC games actually have solid lineup of tournaments in domestic and international scenes.
About that. I am gonna have a great first half of the year lol. Superbowl, SI 2020 (esports) and the UCL knockout round.
The biggest thing holding back esports is the vogue game frequently changes.Basketball and football are basically the same game over a hundred years, with the occasional balance patch that might introduce new elements to the game. Esports went from StarCraft to DOTA to Fortnite.
@@martytu20 no. Not fortnite but league of legends.
@@martytu20 exactly esports and games always change and add stuff compared to actual sports that stay the same
One thing I love about baseball is that there is no clock. You are never out of the game until itâs over. There are points in basketball where there is no way of coming back and makes the end of the game just waiting until the clock hits 0.
I guess but like thatâs why games go on for so long. Most blowouts happen when a bad team is against a great one. Itâs also pretty cool to see a game winning or tying buzzer-beater at the end of the game.
@@lawly9776 speaking of end of the game moments like in baseball moments like these are get a dinger and go home. Only defense the defense has against this is the pitching throwing the ball good. Thatâs it. In basketball. Someone brings the ball up they have to find a way to score to win the game. The defense has a chance to steal, play lock down defense so the offense takes a bad shot or loses the ball, block a shot, etc. So Iâm baseball the defenses game and fate is in chance. Unlike basketball. Thatâs just a small thing that I hate about baseball
Perhaps, but unless the game is a blowout and you literally have to wait about 18 minutes for the game to be over even though the outcome is already decided, the wait is only about 2 minutes, give or take.
This is a waaaaaaooooooooowwww video. Must see by all sports lovers. What super analysis mannnnn!!!
Im Filipino. Almost all Filipinos are basketball fans. Which is ironic since we as a people are not very tall.
Kai Sotto
@@TokyoBalletReprise kai is the exception not the rule. Though i do have hoped for his.career.
@@thebirdking270 hope Kai gets drafted and I don't care if it's in the 2nd round
As a European that grew up on Football and is now an NBA fan, I totally see the point about baseball being a game for doing something else in the meantime. I was lucky enough to attend a Yankee game a couple years ago and it was a completely different vibe! To this day I dont 100% understand the rules, but I had fun back then because it was a great atmosphere. It's just that European sports fans are usually looking for something else entirely, something that football and the NBA has.
Great one! Could you make an episode comparing the growth of American football versus basketball?
This is a good video that makes a lot of good points, especially the bits about basketball superstars apparel and ease of access, but there are some things that could use a little clarification.
First, baseball may have less of an international presence than basketball, but it is out there and very strong. Countries like Japan, South Korea, and the Dominican Republic are countries with great baseball leagues and strong interest in the game. Hell, there's a bill in the United States Congress called the Baseball Diplomacy Act that allows Cuban players to maintain their citizenship when they come to play baseball in the United States, which is fantastic when you consider that the U.S has imposed an embargo on Cuban businesses for decades.
This has led to a fair number of very good international players coming to the MLB and becoming incredibly famous. Names like Yoenis Cespedes, Sammy Sosa, Ichiro Suzuki, and Hideki Matsui might not be as big as LeBron or Jordan, but they are very well known and beloved names in baseball.
Again, not trying to drag this video down, just offering some additional information.
Or this can be summed up like this:
- Baseball plays too many games, thus losing the appeal of âimportantâ games. You can literally lose 70 times and make the playoffs.
- the games are slower than NFL games, by twofold. Thus becoming boring and losing interest quickly
- The game is not as big internationally
- There isnât as many exciting moments
- Cheating is extremely prevalent in the game.
For me, as a spanish, what makes european football or basketball more exciting than baseball or american football is the pace. In fact, what makes me not watch NBA lots of nights or quit the game are the continuous time outs in the fourth Q
quarter. But the game itself can be pretty fast and it stops if there is a foul, what usually means easy points in basketball and can mean a dangerous play in european football, so at least the stops mean something.
But both in american football and baseball the game is literally meant to stop after every play. The only sport I can enjoy sometimes even with its stops is tennis.
But sport is also quite cultural. Probably not many US kids would play and watch american football if their parents had 'taught' them about the sport by watching it, and probably the same happens with european football in other places.
Cricket reinvented itself at just the right time with twenty twenty format.
The game was reduced to 3 hours from 5 days.
IPL (Indian Premier league) 's brodcast deal with Star which is now part of disney was for 2.5 billion for five years.
With a per game cost higher than the nba with abt 8 million.
@AthleticInterest Donât write off baseball yet! If youâve seen any of the World Baseball Classic over the last few weeks itâs hard to argue that baseball doesnât have global appeal. And it just got its first global superstar - Mike Troutâs Angels team mate, Shohei Ohtani. If you havenât heard of him yet, you soon will. Dudeâs the GOAT - first player to be an elite level batter and elite level pitcher since Babe Ruth. His Insta grew by 3M followers since the WBC tournament began 3 weeks ago. Watch what happens to his contract and sponsorship deals over the next 12 months - itâs gonna get crazy! Youâre gonna want to make a video about that my friend, for sure! MLB is also making some rule changes this year like a pitch clock to speed up play and increasing the size of the bases to advantage runners which should make it more exciting for fans to watch. With the residual effect of the WBC on increasing global viewership of season games, the new rules keeping them hooked, and a bonafide global superstar - this year will be a game-changer for baseball. The next WBC in 2026 is going to be even bigger as more countries around the world are investing in facilities and player development. Seriously, watch this space!
Baseball struggles to market their own players because they're too caught up in their old ways and refuse to adapt to modern times. Any time a players does anything to attract the younger audience, the older players and coaches will shame them.
Fernando Tatis Jr, one of the most exciting young players today, was shamed by his manager and other players for hitting a grand slam HR in a game they already considered "unwinnable for the other team". He had to apologize and it was ridiculous. It's moments like this why younger fans won't watch.
The late David Stern and Michael Jordan played major roles in helping the NBA become global. Also basketball is much more attractive to watch compared to baseball. From the fashion, to the dunks, to crossovers, to the all star dunk contest and to the flair of watching people like Allen Iverson, Kyrie, curry, KD .etc ..makes it very attractive to watch ....and it was also not common to see tall and big men playing in one sport back in the day. It was refreshing to see huge people like shaq and Yao Ming competing against each other. I mean who wouldn't want watch a sport that has some of the world's tallest men playing.....
Football is the most famous sport because is the most simple. Obviously, the top teams play with super smart tactics, but we still always understand the games, we always know when someone plays really well or really bad. Football can easily become part of your life, to play it you literally only need a ball (sometimes not even a ball), I remember me and my friends playing improvised football in the streets of Brazil. I feel like it's very similar with Basketball, it can definitely become a lifestyle, you always know when a team or player is doing well even if you don't know much about the sport, it is very exciting and the players usually show off crazy skills during the games, I love watching NBA highlights.
Yeah that's about the gist of it. It's more highlight worthy than baseball- both sports are, on top of that unlike baseball you don't need a lot to play them just a ball, and some sort of goal, most people don't do it anymore in America cause hoops are everywhere but back in the day when they weren't so plentiful people would nail crates to walls for the goal.
5:46 Unrelated: the NBA teams might have the best logos (as a league) in sports. So cohesive, expressive, instantly-recognizable and legible, and they reflect the attitude and passion that the game and its players often exude. And each team has its own distinct character within that shared design ethos. Just fantastic. đđ
Baseball has more classic and recognize able logos than any nba team i.e. yankees, dodgers, red sox, cardinals, giants, athletics, mets, braves etc etc
@@Floww23 I would say they're more understated, yes, and "classic" is relative: are they old? Sure.
But do they visually represent what a team _is_ ? I'm not so sure. Also, just like legacy leagues like top tier European soccer leagues, the color palettes are often very similar and restricted (MLB uses plenty of red, white, and blue, predictably; lots of red white and blue in Premiere league as well-again predictably; lots of red, yellow, and black in the Bundesliga in Germany. As you can tell, the trend is country flags).
The NBA's "shape catalogue," let's call it, is fairly consistent, with sharp lines, boldness to edges, simple shapes, but the color palette across the league is far more expansive. I honestly think it's the gold standard for a family of logos in a shared space.
Nobody knows wtf are those logos đ€Łđ€Ł real football easily has the most recognizable logos đ
Bro the amount of Europeans I've seen wear yankee, dodgers, red sox, pirates hats is actually crazy. I've even seen people where a Ray's hat which is a small market team. Not saying they know what team they represent but they defo can recognize them.
thanks for the quality content here. Well, but I have point out that Taiwan is not a part of China's map.
Lol
A "point" in baseball is scored a "run" (same in cricket).
Basketball games can last up to 2.5 to 3 hours too, due to all the time-outs and stoppages in play.
Sometimes, in fact many times, a very long baseball game (extra innings) can actually be thrilling and full of suspense precisely because it's gone to extra innings.
Tailgating is associated more with the NFL than Major League Baseball and other top North American sports leagues.
Intrinsically, you can't prove that basketball is a better game than baseball or vise versa.
And baseball is VERY popular in some countries outside the US: in many Latin or Caribbean countries, and some Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea.
But YES, the NBA is really tops in marketing. It's part of their tremendous success.
I'll be honest, I love baseball with everything I have, but I honestly can't watch a game unless its the playoffs. Baseball is fun to play but it gets boring to watch.
make a video about cricket,with the quality you produce I am sure it will get a lot of views
-Basketball game run for :: 48 minute
-Baseball approx :: 3-5 hours
Me a test Cricket fan ::
But most of time basketball games also take around 2 hours, since there are tons of free throws and timeouts in a game
Baseball games do not take 5 hours they usually about 3:15 but sometimes can be close to 2 hours.
For some reason NY Yankees caps were famous in our area even without anyone knowing what it was.
I assume you are Indian coz Yankees caps are the frontrunners of duplicate market in India and people not knowing why they are so popular where them to look cool(le chapprisđ€Ł)
China toođ
sehr gutes und informatives video
Great content! subscribed. GrĂŒĂe aus der BasketballwĂŒste - Europa
Itâs more entertaining to watch for the average viewer, thatâs why
@Kent Anderson lmfao not true. With basketball you can practice or enjoy playing it by yourself along with soccer. With baseball you pretty much need someone else throwing the ball to you unless if you get a stand to place the ball and hit it
@Kent Anderson well true I guess
@@inosurrender8327 not really, one of the ways I got really good was just by throwing a ball against a wall, and fielding the ball afterwards
Basketball is boring asf lol
@@bravokinhead6077 your opinion is strange to me
Could you do one for Motorsports? Why is IndyCar or Nascar is famous in US than F1? And the opposite in Europe. And similar questions and stats
Mas allĂĄ de lo comercial o atractivo que sea televisar Basket, el gran problema del baseball es que para poderlo jugar requiere de una gran cantidad de personas con posiciones muy establecidas; el basket por ejemplo puedes jugar 1v1 2v2 3v3 tranquilamente, en futbol tambien, en cambio en baseball... bueno, obliga a tener quien lance, quien reciba el lanzamiento, quien defienda las bases; en fin, hace que practicar este deporte sea aun mas problemĂĄtico
Great video. I personally love baseball, coming from a baseball country (Venezuela), and I was passionate about it becoming a big international sport for the masses, but eventually I end up understanding that it's not for everyone. And that's OK, I can live with that. It won't ever have the dinamics of football (soccer) or basketball. But there's a huge difference between that and actually killing the game of baseball, and I trully believe that MLB is doing that. Every single year I keep seeing the numbers falling down and down, and MLB does nothing. And when they do something, usually the result is not what was expected. Probably the only good idea they've had in the past 30 years is the World Baseball Classic, but still they keep falling short on everything else. I think in the case of baseball we do have the enemy in our own house. MLB is baseball's worst enemy, and they're really killing the game. We baseball lovers still got time, but I think if MLB doesn't make some changes and updates the game to this century, it will eventually fall into oblivion, and that would completely suck.
I'm a basketball fan, but I still know a fair bit about baseball due to growing up in NYC ( most of the population lives and breathes basketball like one does air, but a large amount love baseball and everyone has seen a couple Mets and Yankees games here lol). What do you think the MLB is doing to kill baseball and what changes and updates to the game do you think are necessary from your perspective? As far as I know, unlike basketball the game hasn't really undergone much changes in the past century.
This man just tried to tell me basketball games are a maximum of two hours long
Yea that was cap lol they take like 2 hours 30 min each game
Nice video! Just small advice: itâs pronounced âYannisâ not âDshanisâ for the Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo
I've watched so much basketball in my life and when played well it is a joy to see fine passing interchanges and crisp shooting.
That said, I haven't watched NBA in over twenty years preferring my beloved UK basketball. Call me bias, I feel like it means more and runs deeper in our history with titles over the decades and an obsession with records.
The UK plays basketball?
Could you make a video about the UFCâs growth over the past years. Love the channel
Conor Mcgregor
there, I saved you a few minutes of a video
@@ericsmusic5927 And Khabib Nurmagomedov as well.
@@JonSnow-pi6jb Not really
@@ericsmusic5927 what just because Khabib is not greedy as Conor ? Khabib made his brand after his fight with Conor . After Conor's defeat to Khabib the media was more interested on Khabib than on Conor.
Khabib took UFC to Dubai not Conor.
@@JonSnow-pi6jb Media wasn't more interested in Khabib. Conor McGregor is still the number one guy and Conor took UFC to Dubai not Khabib. Khabib never had fights in Dubai until he beat Conor
Basketball is popular in The Phillippines too, hell, we have a national basketball league, the PBA
(Phillippine Basketball Association.)
Yeah sometimes I watch this Filipino guys basketball sneaker review channel, and he'll have clips in the sneakers playing in what looks like a few different leagues there. Plus one time in LA I went to my favorite court at 7am since I was up and thinking no one would be there and it's like two courts full of Filipino's who said they were there since 5:30am. Lol, I was like what? They let me play with them, all great passers. I fit right in because I love fancy trick passes. Funny stuff, but that's when I was like, wow these dudes really love the sport.
@Meh 17 threes in 1986??? That's unfathomable. Maybe one of those hoops channels will do a vid on that. I would be interested in seeing that. From what you're saying then with 3 ball love and my experience with their passing, Steph and Magic make a lot of sense. Honestly I think those are great players to patent their game after because they're team first guys. If they patented their game off of prime Carmelo Anthony (no offense to him), I might of thought differently of playing with them. Lol
@Meh Cool, thx for giving me something to look up or go off of. Even if the D was bad there had to be some level of skill just to get those numbers.
@Meh It's still impressive no matter the circumstances. I imagine if he wanted to he could've gotten a try out for an NBA team or drafted in a super late round. Back in 86 the NBA had 7 rounds, lol so who knows maybe he got a look. It'll be fun to look into, thx!
The pace, the back and forth, the confrontations, and the VAST array of styles a player can play
Now cricket is second most popular game in world in viewership numbers, spectators .
Because basketball is a more entertainig game.
Trust me, Nba is freaking successful
All of kids in my country who are hooping, 80% of them speaking like a gangsta
Respectfully, not to jump down your throat or come of as angry, but it's not "how gangsta's" speak, it's called AAVE (African American Vernacular English). It used to be called Ebonics alongside AAVE, but then that word got denigrated and mocked by many people who wished to look down their nose at the primarily lower class and urban black folks in America. It's just a dialect of English that some people primarily, but not only, black and latino folks, grew up speaking primarily in cities here in America. Gangsta's just speak like that cause most of these gangs are from these cities.
In my country many boys make their hair nappy because they think they're black đ
what
One thing that the video said that I found very inaccurate was that NBA games are 1 hr and 30 mins to 2 hrs in duration.
NBA games are actually around 2 hrs and 30 mins long. It fluctuates between 2 hrs and 15 mins to 2 hrs and 45 mins. But OT can take around an extra 30 mins, each time adding around an extra 30 mins for 2OT, 3OT, etc.
Its just when u have such a legendary game like the 2016 World Series it hard to top
Greetings from Greece, keep up the good work!