Listen to the roar of the crowd, as the Indians take the field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfcmrwPNn7A&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqp20PGIugf5OQ9F9z0n9pr3&index=6
More people are working in Trump’s economy - probably not time to go to a baseball game on a Wednesday afternoon.
Well, duh. While owners are putting taxpayers on the hook for billion dollar stadiums while paying players hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m surprised ANYone is stupid enough to pay to watch a ball game in person.
I’d rather watch ice melt.
Once the NFL players started kneeling, I walked away and never looked back. That was really the only professional sports I watched. Decided after that I didn’t need any of them, and haven’t missed anything. My days are full of plenty of enjoyable things.
I am done with (American) football, never got into soccer or NBA. MLB is the only professional games I watch.
Too bad that overall attendance is down. As only one player in Oakland Athletics (last year) was a kneeler. But with the Yankees going PC yanking Kate Smith, they need to figure out how to build relationship with fans, not alienating them.
I love baseball, but it requires an attention span and an appreciation for strategy. I’m not sure how many people have that patience anymore. So much of life is now almost instantaneous. ‘Delayed gratification’ is when it takes more than 3 minutes to microwave something.
Baseball was/is my first love & I was good enough at it to be scouted by the MBL, but the games are too long. It’s become unwatchable.
The game needs to be about 2 hours long, not 3 & 4 hours. The first thing to do is cut the game to 7 innings. People don’t have the time or attention span to invest 4 hours on a work night watching baseball.
I haven’t been to a baseball game in decades, but I’m still a big fan.
Every game is available on TV. Why would I want to spend all that money and drive 100 miles there and back? I wouldn’t.
One of the reasons owners can pay those exorbitant salaries is because the huge amount of TV revenues they get. And a good team will usually draw good crowds. Good teams that can’t can move to other cities.
Notice how the owners are getting smarter about negotiating contracts. Yeah, there are a handful or two of players who can command $20+ million dollars a year, but there are also a lot of players who can’t and, at least for the last couple of years, there are a lot more players who have to get buy with a piddling $1-5M per year. I also like how we’re seeing fewer super long-term contracts because they seldom are worth the investment.
Play ball!
Maybe people have just reached a boiling point with filthy thugs passing as celebrities.
Two problems. Baseball owners are not willing to spend money on their teams anymore. And the ticket prices and beer prices are outrageous.
NASCAR has had the same problem. However, attendance has stabilized, and it is starting to put a decent product on the field. And these drivers will walk up into the stands and sign autographs, embracing the fans whereas NFL,MLB is very stand-offish, not embracing the fans.
You piss of the fans, they walk away. Doesn’t matter the sport or entertainment type.
Baseball’s biggest problem is its almost total lack of interesting characters. It seems like every single player today is named Eduardo Perez and hit .261 with 8 HR last year.
Was a big fan of MLB for a long time. No longer. When most of the teams went pro homo a few years back that was it for me. But its not just MLB but spectator sports in general. My interest waned about 10 t0 15 years ago to the point I check scores occasionally but nothing else anymore. Tonight the local basketball team is in a game 7 elimination match. I won’t watch but hear how they did tomorrow and say oh well they lost or that’s nice they won and that will be it.
Don’t know about the rest of the world, but Chicago’s been cold and rainy all “Spring” - hard to get turnout for a mediocre team when the venue isn’t even pleasant.
Maybe the White Sox need to sponsor a “global warming” promotion of some sort.
Was there another player strike? Gave up on MLB at the first one in the early ‘80s.
Taking the games off broadcast TV and making people subscribe to a pay channel to watch MLB games has taken its toll. I used to be an avid baseball fan. Now I don’t care anymore. I’ve pretty much lost interest altogether.