I said football is popular, but not just due to the game itself. It fits into fans schedules better. Fans are not dedicated enough anymore to follow their baseball teams daily for 6 months. It's a sign of the times. And I think I'm right alot more than you think. Just have to think about things a little deeper.
They should make changes to make the league and the sport better and more attractive to customers.
I'd figure you'd say attendance dipped in 2020....
So think Bengals attendance and TV viewers will be up next season because people play fantasy football and not because they've put a winning team on the field?
You think football is popular because people don't have time to dedicate to their team?
OMG. Baseball attendance is dropping overall, and TV ratings have plummeted. Pay attention to reality .
The attendance numbers are compelling, but they are over a relatively short period of time and are declining since the crazy offense-fest years of the mid-1990s to mid-2000s. Balls were flying out of the park and fans were excited. MLB can certainly bring offense back full-bore anytime they want by juicing the ball and making life hard on pitchers.
MLB already shares revenue with small markets. They simply aren't spending it on payroll.
LOL. Are you suggesting that the Angels (15-8, 1st place in AL West) and Mets (16-7, 1st place in NL East) should adopt the Reds (3-19) plan?
I give you quote of the year honors with this one, and the year is still young.
I have to wonder if baseball is just too slow of a game for todays ADD world? Everything seems to be short and to the point, a baseball game is a very protracted event. Ain't nobody got time for that!
Still best post of the year IMO. I thought of this post yesterday as major league baseball's failing teams shipped their beet talent in to competitively successful teams continuing the AAAA mode of baseball for these failing clubs. Every once in a while an Oakland or Miami pops up and wins it all, but those will be fewer going forward. The game is becoming simply a large market game. AAAA pays pretty well but nothing like a real MLB team can pay. Overall, that will kill the game.
But, World Series results last 20 years don't support this.
I'll say this and some will get mad. Baseball is hard. Baseball is a game of failure for the hitters. Even as great of a year as Aaron Judge is having, he still fails to get on base 7 out of 10 official plate appearances. He has 115 base hits this season, yet he's stuck out 116 times. Today's society like the instant gratification. College football fans would rather see a 45-43 shootout as both offenses just move the ball up and down the field. They don't want to see a 13-10 grind it out type of game. In basketball, even guys on bad NBA teams average 25 PPG.
No one on this thread said baseball is easy. We know it is a hard sport to master.
Wrong. 26 of the last 27 World Series have been won by teams in the top half of MLB team payroll. usually top 8. 2003 Marlins were the exception. The teams that don't spend above MLB average on players can't win, except in very rare cases.
Baseball is becoming NASCAR. Awesome.
The PGA is already the new NASCAR;
I know two owners in Ohio and another just across Ohio’s border to the east who will just pocket any extra revenue.
Reds have been losing money since the COVID years according to 14.