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how are they measuring this?
>>153085117>"soccer" is only growing in the US because of imported browns *mass brown deportation* >"soccer" becomes third biggest sport in US
>>153085216They import 10 Indians for every Mexican they kick out.
>>153085117Hope that manufactured Dodger dynasty was worth it Manfred
>>153085117By which of the 1,000 meme metrics you can use for this?Americans on 4chan would never acknowledge football as a top 6 sport even if it was by far the biggest sport there. That’s my metric
Without clicking on the article I'm going to wager they are basing it off participation rates and literally nothing else that factors in professional interest
>>153085117surprised it isnt cricket.
>>153085117Yeah they're watching fc bicho play joto united on espn desportes
>>153085427I often feel like the most damaging thing for football in the US is that Americans connect it with Mexico
>>153085384They asked 100 people what their favorite sport was, 10 answered soccer and 9 answered baseball
>>153085439Mexicans don't watch soccer desu senpai so that would be factually incorrect racism
>>153085459>Mexicans don't watch soccer>The most popular sport in mexico is soccer>Mexico literally plays all their home games in places like los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Denver because they can fill a stadium of 80k Chicanos effortlessly
>>153085384You would have lost then. It is a survey at least>Soccer has reached a new benchmark in the United States. Per The Economist, 10 percent of Americans now identify soccer as their favorite sport, edging it narrowly ahead of baseball, long considered the country's pastime. Only American football and basketball rank higher in overall popularityIn participation, soccerball is apparently already second, only behind basketball Baseball is at 9%, basketball at 17%, handegg at 36%. Ice hockey is at 4%
>>153085117Inter Miami couldn't even get an actual parade when the Panthers could, fuck out of here with "popularity"
It's so over for this nation
>>153085382Americans on 4chan are the biggest liars the world has ever seen
>>153085249cricket should be exploding in popularity then
>>153085439we connect it with women's athletics and miserable middle school summers of being forced to join a little league team when we were 11 where they don't even keep score because "it promotes toxic masculinity*.
>>153085117I told you the motherfucking Dodgers are going to ruin this sport
>>153085998the "Americans" who like soccer don't watch MLS. they watch Premier League and whatever the top LatAm league is.
>watch guys run around for hours just to score 2 or 3 points>main skill is footwork>I'm supposed to adore some guy named "messy"soccer is gay
>>153085342>>153086202Just add a salary cap already
>>153085382>giving a fuck about what am*ricans think
baseball is more popular than basketball though
>>153085117Tick tock, Americans ...
>>153086391Sure thing, grandpa. Let's put you to bed, okay?>>153086389The more they lash out over football, the more popular it is in the US
Why do yanks forget they had the second pro league in the world during the 20s and their national team was top 5?
>>153086328>limit amount that can be deferred once past threshold>establish floor instead of cap>remove dodger preferential treatment and broadcast revenue capThat should help a bit
>>153086717The ASL was the second pro league? I hope you don't mean the second-best. And by top 5, I sure hope you mean on the continent of America, because I really doubt they had any chance against the home nations, Uruguay, Argentina, Austria. Just to name a few
>>153086872>The American team consisted of semi-professional players, most of whom had other jobs to support their families>One player, Ben McLaughlin, had to withdraw from the tournament because he could not get time off work>At the time, the English had a reputation as the "Kings of Football">The English Daily Express newspaper wrote: "It would be fair to give the U.S. three goals of a start."
>>153085491People "play" soccer here and in America for exercise. It's light jogging with an alleged game happening. It's the homeopathic version of a sport.Basketball was also invented by a Canadian teaching in America as winter exercise since Americans are so fat.
>>153086087Trvke
>>153085117There is absolutely no way this is true. I have lived in the mid-Atlantic my whole life and have never met a single person who followed MLS. I'm not sure I've even seen anybody wearing a soccer jersey>but muh hispanicsFollow football, baseball, and basketball.How in the fuck is this even calculated? Revenue wise, baseball is much bigger. Attendance wise, baseball is much bigger. Culturally, baseball is much bigger. Baseball players make significantly more money than soccer players in the MLS. Game 7 of the World Series had over 51 million viewers across the US, Canada, and Japan. Individual games in the world series had more American viewers than the World Cup Finals.
Whites>1. Football>2. BaseballBlacks>1. Basketball >2. FootballHispanics>1. Soccer>2. BaseballFootball: 1 Gold 1 SilverBasketball: 1 GoldSoccer: 1 GoldBaseball: 2 Silvers
>world cup is more interesting to watch than LOLDODGERSWINGee I wonder why
Turns out people don't want to watch the super team Dodgers buy championships over and over
>>153088188Who says people give a fuck about the MLS?It was a survey that asked people which sports are their favorite. 10% said yuro football, as opposed to 36% for gridiron football, 17% for basketball, and 9% for baseball. Perhaps they have left out many old people and therefore underestimated baseball. Maybe it's not accurate, but your anecdotal evidence isn't convincing either. Many Englishmen will gladly tell you about Americans bandwagoning their clubs, and I have personally seen many dozens of Americans wearing Barcelona/Real Madrid/Bayern/Premier League shirts, even some Inter Miami onesIf it was only about MLS, then football surely wouldn't be third. Many Americans watch the Premier League, though. There also are surprisingly many who watch the Primera Division and even the BundesligaBut yes, you could use like a dozen metrics to rank sports by popularity. Revenue and attendance only looking at the leagues in the US would probably be the most flawed, even more flawed than an arguably weird survey
>>153088334>>153088263Why did Manfred think this would be a good thing?Does he not realize markets outside of LA exist or did he somehow think that sports fans were going to abandon their local teams so they can frontrun for the dodgers from thousands of miles away? I'm so confused here
>>153088419>why would you root for a losing team when the dodgers have won back to back world series and can keep winning more>Manfred probably
>>153088263Being used to the Bundesliga will make this sound ridiculous, but I just checked and the Dodgers only won the last two in a row?Okay, but I see they also won 2017, 2018, and 2020
>>153088263Ugh, I know right.>turns on Citywinslol/PSGwinslol/Realwinslol/Bayernwinslol
>>153088458Learn to read. It said World Cup.
>>153088458Hey, we had one champion other than Bayern two seasons ago! Two different champions in two years
>>153088473>francewinslol
>>153085117>apehoop>divegrass>boreball>handegg
>>153088419Every league is chasing the NBA audience despite them having no money and not watching the games.
>>153086087tis just a ruse
shouldnt baseball have the most hours watched regardless? i mean they play a million fucking games per season
>>153085382team valuationsMLS is basically sports shitcoins
>>153088263>>153088334Nah it's not that. Chiefs were winning alot and NFL was still breaking viewership records every year, even in the year where the Chiefs could have threepeated. Baseball just kinda sucks.
>>153088191actual>whites1. football2. baseball>blacks1. football2. basketball>hispanics1. football2. soccer
>>153089034baseball just isn't interesting in the TV era. the NFL overtook the MLB in the 60s. the purpose of baseball was to have something to do after work back before you had a royal flush of choice of things to do at home.
>>153088456franchise system usually is more competitive because even the weakest teams have a ton of money coming in because sponsors and fans are assured they'll always have a spot at the 'big kids table'. promotion and relegation is unstable, so the smaller clubs are always at a huge financial deficit to the big ones. there is a possibility that a shitter squad like the Texans or the White Sox can fall arse-backward into the playoffs or even a championship. it's significantly less likely for a club like Brentford to because they're lucky to get a single season with access to Premier League fan attendance and TV advertising deals.
>>153088448>>153088419The casual fans did just that.
>>153085382It's hilarious watching MLB and NHL copers pretend like their sport still matters and there's some massive (yet invisible) surge in popularity. Always goes like >"Woah you guys also feel like [irrelevant sports] is exploding? So many people talking about it all of a sudden and the stadiums are packed"
>>153088188it's southern america migrant descendants watching their own latam cups
>>153089046i would be surprised if hispanics played anything but soccer
>>153085216but all the browns are from central america and cuba dominica puerto rico which all love baseball
>>153086198the 30+ year old crusty boomers do, but the future of america doesnt
>>1530861872 more weeks
ice hockey bros?is it over for us?shall we retreat to canadia?
>>153088419>>153088448>>153088263but baseball was doing great when it was YANKEESWINLOL every year
>>153091271This is false. The USA has a Hispanic population of 65 million. Of that 40 million are Mexicans
