Too Woke! More TV Viewers Watched College Softball Than MLB

Fans are playing baseball with Major League Baseball and voting from their remote controls. It’s gotten so bad that a college women’s softball game between Virginia Tech and Tennessee on April 21 out-drew MLB broadcasts over a two-week period (excluding Sunday night baseball). 

Sports Media Watch reported that a Fox Sports 1 broadcast of the White Sox vs. The Twins match last week attracted a microscopical rating of 0.12 viewers and 202,000 viewers. Recent Tuesday games on TBS fared almost as badly – attracting 206,000 and 234,000 viewers for two games. 

The situation gets worse. There have been no MLB games that attracted more than 300,000. 

Although Sunday night broadcasts have been doing well, they are not impressive. With 1.11million viewers, a Sunday Brewers-Phillies match averaged an average of 0.7 ratings. That’s barely over half of what a Padres-Dodgers game on ESPN drew on the same weekend in 2021. 

Sunday night baseball in 2021 plummeted a whopping 49 percent. 

Warner Todd Huston is a Breitbart sports journalist who lays the blame for MLB’s ratings woes. “The rough start to the 2022 season comes on the heels of the woke league’s terrible 2021 ratings,” he wrote. “Last year’s All-Star Game, for instance, earned its second-lowest ratings of all-time.” 

The all-star debacle followed Commissioner Rob Manfred’s meat-headed decision (seen in photo) to move the game out of Atlanta because the Georgia Legislature had passed new election integrity laws. Despite Colorado having stricter voter laws, he moved the game from Atlanta to Denver. The Left cheered the decision, while the Right booed it. 

In 1980, 36 million people watched baseball’s all-star game. Last year that number had shrunk to 8.24 million, courtesy of the commissioner’s politically guided blunder. 

It was obvious that baseball chose which side in the politics/culture war. Many fans of the Right were disillusioned by its loyalty to the Left. Resulting in lost viewers. 

It’s not just that fewer people are watching MLB wokeball, the sport is losing to other sports as well. Both the NBA and NASCAR have outperformed previous baseball broadcasts (ratings are up 17%). 

Surprise surprise, the USFL games even did better than baseball during their second week. They averaged 661,000 viewers. 

A Newsmax headline blared that baseball is striking out while pursuing the woke. And fans are choosing to take themselves out of – not to — the old ballgame when it comes to television sports viewing.