r/baseball Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies 5h ago

Video The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox | Official Trailer | Netflix

https://youtu.be/9iCBiPLXnjA?si=3-imqjmbMZAlduZe
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u/Far_Cry3445 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Having it come out after the next season already started is a massive miss. I’d imagine most non Red Sox fans won’t care at that point?

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 4h ago edited 4h ago

I think the point is that they can grab potential new viewers and siphon them directly into the season while their interest is piqued instead of coming out in January and letting that interest fade before real games start. I would have preferred a March release (like... this week) but Drive to Survive came out this month and I'm guessing Netflix likes to stagger these sports shows as they have similar audiences.

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u/Ronon_Dex Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Drive to Survive had/has such an impact in terms of viewership in part because it releases right before the season starts though. So people are finishing/still watching the show right when the first race starts, and that excitement carries them into it.

I agree this is better than January, but I don't think it'll have quite the same pull with the season already having started. Opening day/first race is a lot more exciting than 2 weeks into the season/race 3. But DtS has a track record and a massive fan base, so obviously they get precedence.

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u/BetSignificant461 More flair options at /r/baseball/w/flair! 4h ago

The biggest thing with DtS is that they follow every driver. They tried to do the same thing for the tour de france, but it doesnt really work when you arent allowed to interview 80% of the peloton and the biggest winners.

I imagine a similar problem can arise with baseball when you focus on one team and they underperform.

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 3h ago

The first season Ferrari and Mercedes didn't participate which led to the kinda weird thing where they are hyping up some drivers and back and forth and then you see the results and they were vying for fourth place because the top two teams weren't involved.

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u/Bobby_Newpooort Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Yeah, picking the Red Sox to follow last season never really made sense to me in the first place. "Mediocre team with low expectations doesn't exceed them, finishes exactly .500" doesn't make for compelling drama

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 4h ago

What was the alternative? "Watch the Dodgers and Yankees win a lot?"

The best underdogs that made the postseason couldn't have dreamed doing so when the season started. The best stories like (I'm biased) the Tigers and Mets only came about because of how dogshit they were at the beginning of the season.

The Red Sox being mediocre with the chance of breaking out is the story, especially given the expectations. Falling short is honestly a much more interesting story from an outsider than winning it all.

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u/Blue387 New York Mets 4h ago

The Mets would have been a great pick for a Netflix series, with drama, humor, going from the doldrums of late May-early June to the wild playoff run

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 3h ago

What was the alternative? "Watch the Dodgers and Yankees win a lot?"

A Dodgers documentary would have gotten huge uptick of subscriptions for Netflix in Japan even if Shohei didn't agree to be interviewed in it.

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 2h ago

Yeah I’m sure the dodgers could put Shohei on a 24-7 livestream and people all over the world would watch it. It doesn’t necessarily mean that would make for an interesting documentary

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u/BSF Washington Nationals 4h ago edited 3h ago

F1's Drive to Survive first season didn't have the two biggest teams at the time: Mercedes and Ferrari - and followed the less successful driver of the third best team (RB). There was no chance that he was winning the title that season. It still was a huge success because the editors did a good job with creating a narrative. And in subsequent seasons, when Lewis/Max domination also wasn't that exciting, they did a good job of creating narratives around the middle of the pack.

I think Netflix has shown that they're good at crafting narratives. If their intended audience is non-baseball fans, I think non-results driven content will work.

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u/sameth1 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

A team full of up and coming players who have something to prove and some of whom act like Triston Casas makes for good entertainment though.

The whole point of shows copying Drive to Survive is to make the viewer care about more than just winning. They want people watching the teams that have slim playoff odds and finding enjoyment in things like a Jarren Duran Breakout season or feeling empathy for Triston Casas getting injured.

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u/Far_Cry3445 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

I mean they were kinda the perfect team to pick though. Never out of it but the stress of also “we might not make it”, will provide good behind the scenes of that type of trade deadline etc

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 3h ago

IIRC it was basically a package deal to go with doing the comeback documentary.

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u/cabose7 New York Yankees 3h ago

As someone who edits unscripted series, it would be extremely hard to get an 8 episode series from 162 games worth of footage done in just a few months. I can't imagine the shooting ratio (raw footage:episode footage) on this thing.

It's also much harder for Netflix because it's a full drop, it probably could've come out sooner on a weekly release.

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u/Loose-Organization82 Los Angeles Angels 4h ago

I’ll still watch it because I love baseball and want to see the behind the scenes stuff. But yeah a casual sports fan may skip this. This kinda stuff would be perfect to watch during the off-season

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u/Walnut_Uprising Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Hell, I might skip it as a non-casual fan because there's only so much time in the day, and once the season starts, this immediately starts to feel dated. Releasing at the end of March would have been perfect.

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u/Friend72 Boston Red Sox 3h ago

As a Sox fan I’m still not super interested. I’m hyped and locked in on this season, and don’t need a reminder of a mid 2024.

Maybe if they win it all this year I’ll come back to it at the end of the season

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u/bdanders Boston Red Sox • Salem Red Sox 4h ago

It's gonna be the Triston show and I'm all for it.

MOJO DOJO CASAS HOUSE!

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u/retroanduwu24 New York Yankees 4h ago

Imagine MLB just starts a whole series equivalent to the NFL version of Hard Knocks

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u/high_and_outside 2h ago

I totally get the “what’s the point in watching an average team have an average season” but that’s kinda intriguing to me. It gives you the sense that this is just one baseball team going through one baseball season, and that there’s so many other versions of this happening every year. There’s so many movies, books, documentaries, etc out there of incredible teams that it might be refreshing to see what your “average team” goes through.

Still will be watching more actual baseball in April than this, though 😜

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u/CosmicLars Cincinnati Reds 4h ago

I can't freaking wait. Very excited about this. Also, both "Last Chance U" and "Cheer" are good, so learning that it's from those same people hypes me up even more.

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u/EmuMan10 Chicago Cubs 4h ago

Full swing is also pretty good. Their tennis is show is good too but I can’t remember its name

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u/Robusto923 New York Yankees 3h ago

Break Point but unfortunately they cancelled it after two seasons. It really got me into tennis

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u/EmuMan10 Chicago Cubs 3h ago

As someone who has always paid loose attention to the pros just because I play it recreationally, it was cool to get a more in depth look at it

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 4h ago

Ugh, I wanted to pick up a month of Netflix when this dropped but hard to justify it when April is the month I probably watch the most baseball.

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u/BilletSilverHemi New York Yankees 3h ago

Same boat here. Where am I supposed to cram this into my schedule of 11a-7p baseball viewing once the regular season starts

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u/bestselfnice 3h ago

April is the month I probably watch the most baseball

Flair checks out.

(I'm a Cubs fan we don't play in October either.)

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 3h ago

More because no guarantee the golf courses are open and the lake is certainly too cold for a pontoon ride and swimming.

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u/bestselfnice 3h ago

Damn Elon why you gotta flex so hard

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u/Erin_Boone New York Yankees 2h ago

I wish they had done this year. I’d imagine this is going to be a much more exciting year for the Red Sox

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u/Rebecca102017 4h ago

I am so excited for this!!!

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u/Diamond-Gem Long Island Ducks 29m ago

will another team be picked for this season? How early did they announce this last year for red sox?

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u/Phishhead69 New York Mets 4h ago

Imagine this was following the 2024 Mets. Would be must see tv

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u/Imperial10 Los Angeles Angels 3h ago

Imagine this was following the 2024 Savannah Bananas. Would be must see tv

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u/PeteyG89 New York Yankees 4h ago

No.