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    What a slide...

    They get everyone back and healthy they may catch the hated ones Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    The elephant in the room is the simple fact that aside from tennis no women's pro sports have really been a success, especially no women's team sports. True, 50.8% of the population of this country are women but what percentage of women watch sports? Then, what percentage of the women who do...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    The elephant in the room is the simple fact that aside from tennis no women's pro sports have really been a success, especially no women's team sports. True, 50.8% of the population of this country are women but what percentage of women watch sports? Then, what percentage of the women who do...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    What sort of TV contract awaits a pro league that struggled to get a 1000 people to pay and show up for the games? AMA Supercross and Motocross regularly sells out stadiums of 50,000 plus, the outdoor MX races often have 100,000+ fans attend. The sport has been televised since the 1980's but...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    Simply pointing out the fact that college fans won't necessarily show up to support a pro league at close to the same rate that they show up to support the college games. And what sort of attendance numbers to the college softball programs average? In 2019 UCLA were National Champions and...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    Go ahead and quote where I said that every fan at a college game was a student at that college. Go ahead I'll wait. Don't fail at comprehension and then accuse someone of moving the goalposts. I stated that college softball benefits from college sports fans, including the students there on...
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    Tigress, Vinci, Bradley

    Figured Dan would know better than lacing fingers backwards like that. He told me he gets those gloves from Asia unlaced and then he laces each one himself. Must be because it's a lefty and the top run didn't include a web spiral. Top cross on finger tips should be going up and out towards...
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    Tigress, Vinci, Bradley

    The last Marucci I worked on had tears between holes and the leather seemed to be quite a bit thinner than the HOH or A2000 gloves that I seem to get in much more often for relaces. The felt seemed to be OK I dont recall a plastic insert in it, I know that when I looked the model up it was their...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    Case in point, football is America's favorite spectator sport and that we can all agree on. In 2019 Ohio State averaged 102,000 people at their home football games but the Cincinnati Bengals averaged 47,000 fans a game. Where did those other 55,000 people go? Same year Michigan averaged 111,000...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    I will accept that things are quite different now than they were in the late 1800s and baseball was getting its start. But there are still the 1900s where sports was huge for people. Look how many people went to see Rose Bowls or other ball games in the 1920s. There were 2 to 3 hundred thousand...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    I have been to Mary Nutter and Judi Garmin tournaments, I have been to college games at UCLA, Loyola Marymount, Cal St Fullerton, Long Beach St and Regionals at UCLA. I've been to sec baseball games at LSU, Miss St, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Arkansas. I watched my kid play at Texas A&M and Oklahoma...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    I have been to Mary Nutter and Judi Garmin tournaments, I have been to college games at UCLA, Loyola Marymount, Cal St Fullerton, Long Beach St and Regionals at UCLA. I've been to sec baseball games at LSU, Miss St, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Arkansas. I watched my kid play at Texas A&M and Oklahoma...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    The ratings of college softball games on TV vs the ratings of pro softball games on TV is far greater evidence of that than anything you have posted opposing it. As a college student we would sometimes go watch the Trojan Womem's swim team or volleyball team play because we were on campus and...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    College softball has the support of the college sport fans. Many of the people who show up or tune in are fans of the school's athletic programs. That's a built in fan base that pro softball doesn't have. A professional softball league will need to lay the ground work and earn the support the...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    When you watch corn hole, spike ball, frisbee, darts, lumberjacks, video gaming...... on TV they are not live. They're taped, edited and packaged in to 30 min or 1 hour episodes that can then be used as filler on sports channels looking to fill up 24 hour days. Pro fastpitch may have to do the...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    Straight white male in their 40's is exactly the target audience for televised sports. But I'm also cynical, opinionated and contrarion and won't watch garbage just because someone has packaged it as intriguing or a sport. If my university ever starts a softball program or once my kid...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    I have never watched the wcws, or really any college softball, on TV because MY school does not field a softball program, I refuse to support other schools and I don't watch sports on TV without having a rooting interest. I also haven't watched as much as 20 seconds of any NFL game since 1994...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    Silver Bullets were a side show act, that I even I took part in and played against. People didn't want to watch a girls baseball team get smashed by the guys teams. Silver Bullets may have worked as a league of all women baseball teams playing against each other. Could have sworn I replied...
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    Tigress, Vinci, Bradley

    Very often I see and read mention of some of these "boutique" glove brands. I know it's cool to get your kid something unique or different from everyone else, I used to believe the same thing. Then I started taking gloves apart several times a week and my opinions have altered. Not sure what...
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    NPF suspends operations. New pro team formed in Florida.

    If they want MLB to foot the bill for their Pro league they might have to. What many people fail to understand is that professional baseball started in 1869 and it was more than 50 years before all of its players were able to live off the money earned through playing baseball. All of the...

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