Ratings for post-season baseball on Fox and ESPN have not been very hot, and may well get worse. With the Detroit Tigers' knocking out the New York Yankees, there's only one major-market team left in
the playoffs--the New York Mets. And they just don't draw like the Yankees on television. So baseball is facing the possibility of yet another record-low performance for the playoffs, just two years
after the Boston Red Sox's World Series victory revived the ratings.
Boston missed the playoffs this time out--as did the defending champs, the Chicago White Sox. So as the American and
National League Championship series gets underway, there are few big-name stars, and dire prospects for World Series viewership.
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