Mariano Riviera’s retirement was worthy of as segment of Morning Edition today. Read and hear Mike Pesca’s piece here.
Last week I posted about the Houston Astros drawing a 0.0 rating according to Nielsen. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me thought that was pretty funny, too.
PETER SAGAL: Little training there. Kyrie, the Houston Astros set a record just this last week when how many people watched their game on TV on Sunday?
KYRIE O’CONNOR: None.
SAGAL: Exactly right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Zero people watched the game. Just like with Woodstock, years from now people will insist they were one of the people who were not there when the Houston Astros played the Cleveland Indians in late 2013. It got…
O’CONNOR: It was the kindest thing I could possibly have done.
SAGAL: Yes. It got a Nielsen rating of 0.0, a score industry analysts refer to as a goose egg or a PBS. Now…
(LAUGHTER)
TOM BODETT: Wow. It seems like somebody would have it on just by accident, you know, where you just – like they’re…
SAGAL: Like they’re flipping through channels and they had a stroke and they were lying there paralyzed and couldn’t help but watch the Astros game. That might have happened.
BODETT: Or “Cops” were on early in the day and then you went out to work in the garden and just left the TV on. You know…
BRIAN BABYLON: Let me get this straight. You mean to tell me that somebody was watching those crappy reality shows, but no one was watching the ballgame?
SAGAL: No one was watching the ballgame.
O’CONNOR: Honestly.
BABYLON: We’re in trouble.
O’CONNOR: The Houston Astros is the crappiest reality show in the entire world.
For the sake of accuracy, this doesn’t mean that no one was watching the Astros that day, just no Nielsen-connected sets.
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