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A few problems: 1. baseball competes in a sea of media and multimedia options and its competition has been growing ever since TV moved into the cable-era. Now
by voidfunc 1y ago
A few problems:
1. baseball competes in a sea of media and multimedia options and its competition has been growing ever since TV moved into the cable-era. Now it also has to compete with internet, games, social media, etc. Theres only so much time and attention for people to focus on it.
2. Long season. I love baseball but you can go 2-3 weeks not watching a game and have missed nothing.
3. Cost to go to games plus location of stadiums in car-centric areas often means painful commutes to the games for most Americans and then bringing two kids is like making it a $400 affair between parking, food, souvenirs etc. That's expensive for a lot of people.
The exit of people from the cities into the burbs in the mid-20th did a lot of damage to the idea of going to a game.
- iambateman 1y agoAll true. Meanwhile, we saw the Savannah Bananas tonight. I wonder if their brand of baseball will find appeal more broadly? It’s more spectacle than sport but it’s the most enthusiastic I’ve seen a crowd for anything other than football.
- voidfunc 1y agoBananaball is interesting but its more similar to the Harlem Globetrotters than anything in the MLB pipeline. Which is fine, its fun, its ridiculous, but its not baseball.
- whateveracct 1y agoI mean, theatre always has its place