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RUSH: How about this, folks. “Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts.”<\/a> Who was it that predicted this was going to happen? I think it was your host. Your host here of 32 years and counting on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“As the NBA and MLB return from their coronavirus-imposed hiatus, it appears TV viewers are not interested in what the increasingly woke leagues have to offer. With both baseball and basketball draped in all sorts of Black Lives Matter and social justice symbolism for their opening games, a substantially smaller number of fans tuned-in to the rest of the week\u2019s games.”<\/p>\n

The openers did okay, but after that (raspberry)… Some of it could have been the fact that there\u2019s no fans, but the NBA crashed. You want to hear some numbers? This comes from Outkick.com. Neither league did anything to write home about. As for the openers, Outkick reported the return of the NBA on TNT saw the following numbers: The Lakers and Clippers, 3.4 million. The Pelicans and the Jazz, 2.1 million.<\/p>\n

Folks, that may sound like a lot of numbers. That\u2019s nothing for fans who\u2019ve been starved. I mean, NBA fans who\u2019ve been starved of games since they were shut down in the early spring, late winter. That\u2019s nothing, compared to what the average Lakers-Clippers game would be. Ditto Pelicans-Jazz.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball return numbers are also underwhelming. The Yankees and the Washington Nationals, four million. The Dodgers and the Giants, 2.8 million. That\u2019s nothing to write home about. Ryan Glasspiegel of the Outkick.com website added more ratings numbers on Twitter. He said: “To be fair since I compared MLB vs NBA return night 1, here is night 2,” which is July 24th. “MLB (last Friday, ESPN), Mets-Braves (4p) – 922K.”<\/p>\n

Not even a million viewers. Now, let me tell you something, folks. I\u2019m here to tell you that ESPN and TNT, all the regional sports networks that were televising these games were expecting — I could hear it in the announcers\u2019 voices — they were expecting massive numbers based on one thing. The fact the game had not been played since last season, that spring training had been interrupted by the coronavirus, and they assumed that Major League Baseball fans were chomping at the bit, even though they weren\u2019t gonna be allowed back in the stadium, they were gonna watch on television. They couldn\u2019t wait. They were just ready to burst with excitement.<\/p>\n

And you could hear it — you know, I watched some of those games. Well, I didn\u2019t stick with the whole thing but I tuned in because it\u2019s my job, man, to know what\u2019s going on out there. And I tuned in and I wanted to see what these games looked like with no fans. And, of course, I studied the announcers. And, man, I don\u2019t want to call out any specific games because I don\u2019t want to call out any specific announce crews. As you know, I don\u2019t try to make it a point here of creating rivalries and ripping people by name simply on the basis of media performance.<\/p>\n

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Political is a different thing, but you could tell their excitement, “Oh, we\u2019ve been so denied, oh, this is the greatest day in our lives, oh!” You could just tell from the announcers that they thought that the fans were chomping at the bit and were numbering in the millions. Mets-Braves — ESPN — this is after the opener, this is the second day, 922,000. The Brewers and the Cubs had one million viewers and the Los Angeles Angels and the Oakland A\u2019s, 797,000 viewers.<\/p>\n

This is not enough of an audience to get advertising revenues to, in any way, support and make up for the loss of actual fans in stadiums buying what they buy — tickets, concessions, souvenirs, and all of that. NBA, July 31st, night number two, you know, game number two. Celtics and Bucks, 1.3 million. Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets, 1.7 million.<\/p>\n

Now, for good measure, it\u2019s been pointed out baseball can\u2019t blame the coronavirus. The virus didn\u2019t stop people from watching Brady and Tiger and Phil Mickelson and Peyton Manning play golf last May. So, folks, it is clear the American people, a majority, have no interesting in watching something with BLM all over the pitcher\u2019s mound, Black Lives Matter all over the signage in ballparks. They don\u2019t want to tune in and watch a bunch of players kneeling during the American national anthem. They just don\u2019t want to see it.<\/p>\n

And I hope the people in the NFL are watching this. I doubt it because I think Twitter runs American sports now. I think Twitter and Nike are running professional sports. We know they\u2019re running the NBA, and we know that China is running the NBA. The NBA is in bed — Nike and China is who the NBA I think considers their loyalties to be aimed at.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you these ratings crashes have nothing to do with the fact there aren\u2019t any fans in the stadiums. The American people just don\u2019t want to be preached to by a Marxist, pro-communist organization while they are trying to get enthused and excited about the return of major league professional sports. It\u2019s not complicated to understand at all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike in Houston, you\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just wanted to say that we were all actually chomping at the bit for baseball to start back up again. We couldn\u2019t get past the first five minutes of the support of BLM and the Marxist support. So myself and many friends, we turned it off. And I never saw first pitch. And I took it one step further, I called my provider and canceled my baseball package, my MLB package \u2019cause I wasn\u2019t gonna sit there and watch that. My question is, how does MLB not know who their fan base is?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this is something that I can\u2019t figure out. We played a sound bite or two from Jason Whitlock<\/a>, formally the Kansas City Scar and formerly ESPN, and he made the point that everybody in the world can find out who Black Lives Matter is because they\u2019re proud of it. All you gotta do is go to their website, and there you will find that they are a proud pro-Marxist, anti-American organization. And yet every professional sports league believes they\u2019re getting into bed with a civil rights organization. It\u2019s the most amazing thing. Now, why do you think that is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the million-dollar question, Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s easy. I\u2019ll tell you why. Because they get caught up in the media. They get caught up in Twitter. They\u2019re following Twitter. And the media follows Twitter. And if they do that then they\u2019re gonna think the American people think that Black Lives Matter is a civil rights organization, so it is a cheap way of marketing. Just follow where Twitter goes and tell yourself that Twitter is America. ‘Cause they\u2019re not this stupid. They\u2019re not this —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — incapable of learning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the people out in the streets carrying BLM signs aren\u2019t the ones sitting at home watching baseball and paying for the extra package and all that sort of thing, so, I mean, it\u2019s just ridiculous —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that they would take that route.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, the people at Black Lives Matter threatening to boycott, they\u2019re not going to games, either. They\u2019re already boycotting —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They were never going anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, they\u2019re not sports fans to begin with.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Why do all of these automobile manufacturers make these stupid TV commercials with a polar bear following a guy driving a Prius home to give him a hug for supposedly saving the planet and saving the polar bears? It\u2019s because the people that run the car company have made the marketing decision to try to convince the public to buy their cars because they are woke on climate change. Not because their cars are cool. Not because their cars are the best, but they\u2019re woke on climate change.<\/p>\n

I call it the Twitter effect. And I think Twitter is responsible for destroying the media. I know that for a fact. I think Twitter is the reason the Democrat Party is an ongoing, daily train wreck. And by the way, I\u2019m not an solving these people of responsibility. Lord knows I would never do that. I think Twitter is why Black Lives Matter and Antifa are treated as civil rights organizations because that\u2019s how they\u2019re portrayed by the bots and the artificial humans that literally populate Twitter.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, former CEO Microsoft Steve Ballmer, I got a sound bite coming up. He says it\u2019s important to keep sports going so players can speak out on Black Lives Matter. Now, is this guy a literal ignoramus? Or is that marketing?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Steve Ballmer. Now, folks, you tell me, this guy used to be the CEO of Microsoft. He cashed out, multibillionaire, and bought the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA from the hated Donald Sterling. Donald Sterling was the acknowledged — well, no, he never admitted it, but they claimed he was the racist owner of the Clippers.<\/p>\n

This is Ballmer. This is on CNBC today, this morning, the cohost said to Ballmer, “I\u2019m the biggest sports fan in the world and happy as anybody that sports are back in the magnitude that they are.” They\u2019re not back in much magnitude, Scott. Scott Wapner is the guy here. Scott, that\u2019s the whole point. They\u2019re not back with much magnitude. He said, “They\u2019re working out well for the most part. Mr. Ballmer, what do you say to those who suggest that our priorities are messed up here?”<\/p>\n

\"\"BALLMER: Society wants some sense of normalcy. Society wants sports. Sports rallies people. It brings people together. Even now, particularly with the issues of Black Lives Matter and racial equity, I think it\u2019s important to — to actually get sport going and let — let our players speak out on these important issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s important to keep sports going so players can speak out on Black Lives Matter. Now, this is a guy, because he\u2019s got a couple of billion — well, he\u2019s got more than that. Because he\u2019s got billions of dollars, he\u2019s considered to be brilliant because he\u2019s CEO of Microsoft, he\u2019s supposed to be brilliant because Bill Gates is the guy that put him there, and Gates is also brilliant. But how is this brilliant? We need sports so that athelets, players can continue to speak out on Black Lives Matter?<\/p>\n

I remember watching the St. Louis Rams, a game in St. Louis in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri, riots. And during player introductions half of the Rams players are running onto the field with their hands up replicating the “Hands up, don\u2019t shoot” metaphor or mantra that was the lying take from what happened to Michael Brown. “Hands up, don\u2019t shoot” never happened.<\/p>\n

The story was that Michael Brown was innocently walking down the street on a Saturday afternoon thinking about his first week at college that was gonna be coming up in a couple of months. I know. But that\u2019s what they said he was doing. When he wasn\u2019t walking on the sidewalk. He was walking the middle of the street. He had just robbed a convenience store, a cop came along and stopped him, and he attempted to take the cop\u2019s weapon.<\/p>\n

The story was the cop pulled over, attacked the guy, and murdered him because he was black, all the while Michael Brown had his hands up saying “Hands up, don\u2019t shoot.” Never happened. But yet here are these idiots being introduced, St. Louis Rams players, and I\u2019m asking myself, do they really not know what happened? And I said they may not. They pay attention to the media, they probably believe the lie.<\/p>\n

So now we\u2019ve got all of professional sports, from the commissioner level, from the ownership level in bed with Black Lives Matter, which not a civil rights group. They are a Marxist organization. In fact, let me find something. I know I\u2019ve got something here in the sound bite roster about this. I\u2019ve got something somewhere in the Stack that I was going through here, and it makes this point. I guess it\u2019s not the audio sound bite roster. So it\u2019s gotta be in the Stack here. I might have been thinking of the Ballmer bite that you just heard.<\/p>\n

But literally, folks, the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA are in bed with Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is an acknowledged, proud, not hiding it, Marxist, anti-American organization. And professional sports is in bed with it. Now, let\u2019s examine. Why? Well, in the case of the NBA and the NFL, they could say, “Well, 75 to 90% of our players are African-American. And if our players think that Black Lives Matter is a civil rights organization, we\u2019re not gonna argue with \u2019em and we\u2019re not gonna bring \u2019em in and teach \u2019em, and we\u2019re not gonna bring \u2019em in and tell \u2019em that they\u2019re wrong. We\u2019re just gonna take the path of least resistance and we\u2019re gonna appear to be in bed with Black Lives Matter so our players don\u2019t strike and leave us high and dry.”<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s one possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that the owners know that Black Lives Matter is pro-Marxist, but they don\u2019t care, because they believe that most of the country thinks that Black Lives Matter is a civil rights organization. And so they\u2019re not also gonna teach the American people. They\u2019re not gonna teach anybody anything. They\u2019re simply gonna react to what they think a majority of people think. And if they\u2019re governed by Twitter, if the NFL, if Major League Baseball, if the NBA are governed by Twitter, then I will guarantee you they are going to think that most people think Black Lives Matter is an offshoot of Dr. Martin Luther King and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another possibility. It\u2019s that plus they hate conservatism, plus they hate conservatives, they hate Republicans. And so no matter what else, they are not going to do anything that makes it look like they support conservatives. It\u2019s not that they hate conservatives. The dirty little secret is in the NFL that a lot of the owners are. But, see, they don\u2019t want anybody to know. Oh, God, no. So they\u2019ll come out, and they\u2019ll appear to oppose conservatism. But take a look at their political fundraisers when they do \u2019em.<\/p>\n

I mean, you\u2019ve got some commie SOBs that own teams in the NFL, but a lot of them, folks, are not. But they don\u2019t want anybody to know. But it\u2019s absurd because Black Lives Matter is devoted to the literal destruction of America, as founded. They\u2019re open about it. They\u2019re open about it. And they are seeking membership of people who are devoted to the same thing. And now they are in bed. Professional sports has made the decision to get in bed with Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

Now we see opening ratings, NBA, Major League Baseball embarrassingly — on day two barely a million viewers of two sports that had multimillions audience sizes before all of this happened. In Major League Baseball last season the NBA was getting ready for their playoffs, this season when they were shut down \u2019cause of the virus.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the thing. The truth is out there. There are two truths out there. The truth of what Black Lives Matter is and the fact that the American people don\u2019t want to watch players kneel during the national anthem. That truth is out there. It\u2019s been out there for a number of years. And what is professional sports continuing to do? They are continuing to promote players kneeling during the anthem. They are continuing to promote and brag about their association with Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

Somebody tell me how this makes any sense, beyond avoiding player revolts? I mean, the NFL, the NBA, they can\u2019t do anything if players don\u2019t show up, right? If their players think that Black Lives Matter is Martin Luther King reborn, then that\u2019s what they\u2019ve gotta treat it as. I guarantee you that\u2019s how they would look at it.<\/p>\n

Grab sound bite number 19. Here\u2019s the coach Mike Ditka<\/a>. He was with on Jesse Watters Saturday night on Waters World. Jesse Watters said, “When you were with the Chicago Bears, if anybody knelt during the anthem, what would you do?”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>DITKA: They wouldn\u2019t have played for us. It\u2019s that simple. I would bench them, that\u2019s it, until they found that it was honorable to respect the country. This country has given them an opportunity to become millionaires. You understand what I\u2019m saying? You make a lot of money doing it. Enjoy it, respect it, but don\u2019t act like a clown.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And those values are so old now. Those values are considered to be so old-fashioned. What do you mean, this country made you a millionaire? We\u2019re not millionaires. It\u2019s indentured slavery. It\u2019s indentured servitude to be a professional athlete today. That\u2019s what the players will tell you. Doesn\u2019t matter how much money they make. It\u2019s the fact the owners are white and there aren\u2019t any minority owners and everything these guys are risking life, limb, and property in order to entertain these slave-owning white owners. That\u2019s the way they want to look at it, that\u2019s the way they look at it.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s absent common sense. But I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening out there. The American people — do not doubt me — are noticing all of this. I tried. I have tried to warn you people in the NFL. I have tried to warn you people at Major League Baseball. Well, I\u2019ve not tried to warn you people the NBA because I know your loyalties are actually with China. That is also undisputed.<\/p>\n

How about Dianne Feinstein last week? Dianne Feinstein comes out, China is a wonderful, great, evolving nation. She had a ChiCom spy as her driver for, what, 10 years. Her husband has gotten wealthy doing deals with the ChiComs. Here comes DiFi talking about what a wonderful — she doesn\u2019t want to hear anybody rip the China virus. She doesn\u2019t want to hear anybody talk about the Wuhan virus. No way, because China\u2019s a great place. Well, the NBA thinks so, too, folks. Do not doubt me on this. Do not doubt me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what I think we ought to do? Cancel the games. Cancel baseball, cancel football games, but let the players just kneel. If that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna keep America together. You can stop the spread of COVID, but let \u2019em kneel like six feet apart from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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