【海外の反応】「MLBを甦らせたのは大谷翔平と山本由伸だ！」アメリカ専門家が生放送で激白！ドジャースが“次のスポーツ王朝”として全米を支配する時代へ【MLB/野球】
Yet in baseball, a World Series got 27 million viewers in the United States with one city. Yeah. Toronto’s ratings don’t count. And the two best players were Japanese. And I thought about this. Um how do you reconcile that? So international players. I thought they didn’t really move the needle. Um one American team was not one city only was involved in the ratings. NBA had two and baseball virtually doubled it or or got a significantly higher number. Now, some would argue that Manfred speeding up the game has helped the sport. Clearly, I think on the margins, 8 to 10%, not 40 to 50%, but it it’s made it much more consumable. You could argue the Dodgers are just the most interesting team since the Yankees with Jeter. I noticed that two years ago when the Dodgers went to Yankee Stadium for a series, the one Oscar Hernandez crushed, there were Dodger hats everywhere. It was unbelievable. How do you explain two best players are international, doesn’t work in the NBA, works in baseball, or are we looking at a Warriors like dynasty that is just fascinating to everybody in the country? Yeah, I think there’s a few things. Uh Dodgers are a huge brand. Like it doesn’t surprise me that Dodgers hats in New York. like they they used to be here, you know. So so so I mean seriously like it’s it’s an old man’s game and the Brooklyn Dodgers like that’s a thing that’s passed down. So I I think that that the Dodgers, you know, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, Red Sox, those are like the brands that seemingly everybody cares about that kind of transcend the sport. Then you add in Otani and this Babe Ruth thing. You add in that live sports are crushing, right? Everything else is struggling. Everything like everything is struggling. Live sports are crushing. Um and it was like I do think there is something too that was just awesome sports. Yeah. Like that series was great. Like the the 18 ining game crossed over, you know, like that. I think I think that that really helped the series. It was like, wait, what happened? There was a game that went 18 innings and all of the highlights and like that that was that felt like a football level event, like a water cooler event that I don’t know if people have water coolers at their place of business anymore, but like you know what I mean? Like it was it was the type of thing that people were My wife could not care less about baseball. she the next day was like, “Did you what time did you come to bed?” Like like it’s like it like it like came into her orbit, you know what I mean? And so I I think that that game early in the series all of a sudden made people feel like I can’t miss anything else in this series because I missed I missed that all time thing. And then it and then game six was awesome and so it set up for game seven to be this like much mustwatch thing. So, I think it was a a perfect storm of events. And I mean, listen, last year was Yankee Yankees Dodgers, and this one beat it. Yes, that’s a that’s a great story for baseball to be able to No New York market. No other you domestic market. I also think game six and seven were late inning fantastic. Correct. They were just I mean, it’s I love the fact that Dave Roberts pulled every weird lever and they all worked. All of them. It was man it baseball the the tension of baseball is so listen playoff hockey the tension rises game seven in any sport NCAA tournament single elimination right and when when elimination’s on the line the tension is high I used to say like I love sports so much that like you I’ll watch anything if it’s the highest stakes world series of darts bowling right like if it’s the highest stakes and the best of the best but it’s but it’s baseball. It’s America’s pastime. And you’re like, “This you’re going to give me great baseball in a game six and a game seven with a little David and Goliath feel.” Not that the the Blue Jays like looked like underdogs in the series. They arguably outplayed the Dodgers, but just it was like the big bad Dodgers, the Dynasty, and then this team that was just mashing. It was I couldn’t look away. It was compelling sports theater. Like I know they they would never have it go up against the NFL, but like I would have chosen game seven of that World Series over an NFL game if confronted with the choice. And I I’m a 10 times bigger NFL fan than I am baseball fan. Oh, no. I I watched multiple playoff games in October over football games. And I’m a football guy. There’s no question. And I, you know, and I I I’ve said this before is there are just certain things that are like and I college basketball that opening weekend is magical, but it’s really hard to get me in November, you know, or you know, o the Maui Invitational isn’t moving me to a TV set. It’s the same in baseball. Regular season, it’s a bit tedious, but baseball’s one of those things for about 6 weeks. It’s fascinating. And I and I do think there’s a there’s a chess component. I like architecture. You’re very good with math and betting. There’s like an architecture and the build and of the drama. You know, it’s almost like the two-minute drill in football happens in baseball for nine innings. You’re getting these constant stakes on every batter. Yeah. I think I my my thing with my thing with baseball, Boog Shami, great play-by-play guy, buddy of mine, does the you know, does the World Series for ESPN radio but is now locally for the Cubs. So, I gotten to know him over the past few years. He said this thing and uh he likes to think about the game and rules and tinker with it. He’s smart guy, thoughtful guy. He said, “You know, if we created baseball tomorrow, we wouldn’t make it 162 games.” Like, it’s just it’s an outdated and and so what’s the math of it is that one of 162 is statistically meaningless, right? But then when you take that sport and then you inject it into like game seven or best of five and it’s like oh my god now it’s fascinating now a baseball game feels like the NFC like a divisional round game feels like the NFC championship game you know and so I think that juxaposition of it goes from like meaningless to the most meaningful is why it’s great. I want to ask you though about the your what you said about the international guys in the NBA. What do you think will happen like say LeBron retires at the end of the year? Yeah. And then you have Luca on the Lakers. Yeah. Cuz you have you SGA, Oklahoma City, Giannis, Milwaukee, Joic, Denver. If you take international player, international superstar Yeah. with global brand, right? Do you think he will be less impactful than an American star on the Lakers or will the Lakers brand plus his brilliance kind of overrule be an exception to your international question? Uh, it’s a good question. I think the Lakers brand with Luca will be fascinating. Um, I think NBA may become a little bit more regional and local and that was baseball’s problem until the Yankees and the Dodgers and the Cubs. the Cubs, a national team, kind of brought everybody back into the tent. And then Rob Manfred quick, uh, you know, uh, making rule changes to speed the game up, more base runners, defensive shift out, that brought more people back into the game. It’s gone in stages, right? This dynasty just started 2 years ago. The rule changes, a lot of them started three and four years ago. So everything was percolating, percolating. Here come the Dodgers to dominate, bang, the numbers gigantic. So the baseball right now today, Danny, feels more national than it has in forever. The NBA has gone the other way without the Dynasties. It’s gone baseball’s direction where it feels a little bit more local. Um, Luca and the Lakers could make that feel more national or a Knicks championship. Um, but it’s interesting Boston, and this is why I say that, this is not a criticism of the NBA, it’s gotten very local and and the example I would give is the Celtics Championship. That’s the second biggest brand. It got a terrible number. the Celtics did with with MVP level Jason Tatum from Duke. So, the biggest college brand, the second biggest NBA brand got a crap number. So, what’s happened to me is NBA’s gotten more local and regional with the dismantling of the dynasties. Baseball in three or four years has gotten more national. they’ve switched spots and the ultimate payout for that is in the championship where the NBA numbers dip and the baseball numbers surge. Does that make sense? I I I think it’s a I think it’s a totally reasonable theory. I think that cuz you’re judging it based on like NBA Finals ratings and World Series ratings. Yes, that’s right. Yeah. And and listen, that that that the math right now on that is undeniable. I also think that like any sport that plays that many games, it’s in the buildup to it is going to be more local and regional because again, I’ll just use like my team as the example. Like if I’m a diehard Cubs fan and the game now is, you know, 2 hours and 40 minutes, used to be 3 hours and 15 minutes, whatever. It’s a large chunk of time. when I’m done watching the Cubs game, I’m not gonna turn on Diamondbacks Mariners, right? It’s because one of 162 of that I can’t. Whereas football, because every game means so much and gambling and fantasy and it’s like one day a week and all that, like I can feel like I watch the whole league. You can’t do that in basketball. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Fore! Foreign! Foreign! foreignch. Fore! Foreign! 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アメリカ中が騒然――。
生放送で米国専門家が口にした衝撃の一言。
「MLBを甦らせたのは、大谷翔平と山本由伸だ。」
視聴率が低迷していたアメリカの野球界。
だが、その流れを完全に変えたのがこの2人だった。
ワールドシリーズの平均視聴者数はNBAファイナルを超え、
全米の注目は再び「ベースボール」へと戻ってきた。
ドジャースという名の青い帝国。
その中心に立つのは、大谷翔平と山本由伸――。
彼らのプレーは単なるスポーツではなく、文化そのものを動かした。
アメリカが失っていた“夢”を取り戻し、
野球を再び国民的ドラマに変えたのだ。
「90年代ヤンキース」を超える王朝が、今、ロサンゼルスで生まれている。
これは単なる勝利の物語ではない。
それは、“日本人がスポーツの歴史を変えた瞬間”の記録だ。
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米国専門家がTVで断言「野球を救ったのは日本人2人！」
MLB視聴率がNBAを超えた“ドジャース現象”
大谷＆山本が築く“新たなスポーツ王朝”の真実
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