Eh, nice try to pivot, but at least Baseball isn’t struggling because of a lack of patriotism.
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Neither is the NFL.
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Arguably, ratings took a dive after the kneeling controversy. That’s not all, of course. Traditional televised sports as a whole is suffering.
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The whole picture is that MLB ratings go lower with years. I love baseball, but let’s face it: the World Series is not anymore the major event it used to be thirty years ago.
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Why? I blame it on accessibility of games on TV and marketing of players. MLB does the worst of the three major sports in spotlighting their best players. NBA and NFL work hard at it. The MLB TV deal with
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When I was a kid, in the seventies, every boy seemed to know the names of every player of every team with no exposure to them but through trading cards. Kids nowadays with internet and sports-dedicated channels barely know the teams!
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Not sure about the 70s, but in the 80s there was ‘This Week in Baseball’, games of weekends during the afternoon, Starting Lineup toys, players promoted on cereal boxes and other things targeting kids, etc. The World Series was also on during times kids could watch. Not anymore.
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Attendance is down because it costs way too much. Tickets are one thing, then add on food and drinks, and you're probably looking at $300 for a family of 4 to sit in the nosebleeds. Yikes
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“...doesn’t have the....attention span to watch a full baseball game...”
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Let's see, either spend a few hundred on taking the family to the game or buy a big screen and watch from home?
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You either love baseball or hate it. It’s not for everyone
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Game times are too late
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Why would anybody go to a game, pay to park, pay crazy amounts for beer and food, pay for an Uber home, etc when you can sit home and never wait in line for anything? Only idiots still go to games (unless you’re tailgating; then everything is better going to the games)
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Base ball is boring and slow. Have you noticed an up tic in girls softball? It’s a lot faster, more exciting harder to play
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LMAO & SMH When WHTs thought BLKs were"disrespecting"the
WHT guys set
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& decided to switch over to OLD-fashion American sport MLB
[stats: BLK:6.7%, WHT:63.7%, LAT:27.4%, ASIAN:2.1%]. Contrast with NFL
[BLK:68%, WHT:28%] Then all remembered how boring
is & back to
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@cbrennansports Good article; spot on. I hope more people will enjoy MLB but I’m worried about it’s future tooThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m not sure who wrote this article but he seems like an ass whining about women playing sports and talking about himself.
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