Huston said:
Is it possible for them both to lose?
Yes, if ratings are low, as I predict. Lets face it, nobody except those in Florida and New York are going to watch this game, whereas if either Boston or Chicago would have made it, millions would have tuned it all over the country. Every single advertising executive knows this and cringed when that home run was hit in the bottom of the 11th
Low ratings will set the stage to the big advertisers to command a better deal to peddle their tawdry products for next year's World Series. When the present contracts are up in a few years, TV executives will rethink whether it's all worth it to fork out hundreds of millions to have rights to broadcast a game that fewer and fewer are watching.
With less money available from the bid media conglomerates, big market teams like the Yanks will have less money to pay their high-mainenance whiney, overrated, bloated players. They will be forced to peddle them off to meet the budget. Meanwhile, possibility of a strike will loom, further alienating fans who are just beginnig to crawl back from the fallout of the 1994 strike.
So let the damn Yankees keep winning! Sooner or later, America outside New York and give up on baseball entirely. Unfortunately, many will move on to other professional sports that are almost as bad like the NBA or Nascar, but at least baseball will be dismantled and then we can concentrate on eliminating another organized sport system and eventually professional sports altogether.
We can hope, anyway.