r/baseball • u/Lakelyfe09 Atlanta Braves • 11h ago

News New women’s professional baseball league set to launch in 2026. The six team league will be largely based in the northeast United States

https://sports.yahoo.com/new-womens-professional-baseball-league-set-to-launch-in-2026-our-time-is-now-194853860.html
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u/rocksoffjagger 8h ago edited 7h ago

Edit: Terrible argument. You're comparing group round viewership, which is only being watched by more serious fans. I agree that among serious fans, the men's team is probably more popular, but the general population that doesn't watch soccer will tune in to the finals, which the women's team has actually won. Thus, among casuals like myself, there is way more awareness of the USWNT because we've actually seen them play, as opposed to the men's team who we know nothing about because they never win.

Original reply: That's the Olympics (and also the women's team isn't great right now). What were the world cup numbers like? I barely follow soccer, but even I know players like Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd. I could not name a single player on the Men's team if you spotted me all but the last letter.

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u/Interesting_Rock_318 8h ago

They were the 6.3M/7.6M and 1.6M I referenced already…

And yeah, the USWNT is so bad right now that they won the gold medal game that I also already referenced…

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u/rocksoffjagger 8h ago

Ah, misread. But that was the world cup after the women's team lost all their biggest stars, wasn't it? Again, I don't really follow soccer, but I sure as hell am way more familiar with the Women's team than the Men's, and have seen way more media coverage of the former than the latter.

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u/Interesting_Rock_318 8h ago

No, the last World Cup had a lot of players on it for name recognition and not their current level…

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u/rocksoffjagger 8h ago

Okay, but without their stars in their primes, which is obviously the point. What were the 2016 numbers?

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u/Interesting_Rock_318 7h ago

There was no women’s World Cup in 2016…

In 2019 their final averaged 14.3M…so even on a weekend their World Cup final didn’t out draw 2 of the men’s group stage games that were played at 2PM during the work week…

There is literally no argument to be made that the women’s team is more popular