World Series Likely To Draw Lowest Ratings Ever!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:13 pm

There may have been much cheering in Swampville Sunday when the
Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Boston Red Sox to become the American
League's representative in the World Series against the National
League's Philadelphia Phills.

But the cheering likely did not extend to the executive offices of
Fox Broadcasting. Tampa Bay, which had finished dead last in the
standings in every season except one before this year, has been unable
to develop a support base for its players in its own city, let alone
the nation. And although the Phills have come a long way from the time
when they, too, were perennial losers, they have only a tiny fan base
outside their own market.

Ratings have suggested that in recent times it takes the Yankees,
Dodgers, Braves, Mets, or Red Sox to attract better than decent
ratings. (And with the Red Sox defeating the hapless Colorado Rockies
in a four-game sweep last year, the Series drew its second-lowest
ratings in history.) Analysts are predicting a new all-time low this
year.