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1994 Strike 25 Yrs Later: Declining MLB Attendance Leads to Shrinking Stadiums
Breitbart ^ | August 20, 2019 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 08/20/2019 12:24:42 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

As a result, new stadiums are shrinking.

In a piece for USA Today, sports writer Gabe Lacques noted the falling attendance of several MLB teams.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: attendance; baseball; money; prices; sports
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1 posted on 08/20/2019 12:24:42 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.


2 posted on 08/20/2019 12:26:30 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I watch baseball more than ever now after playing in the 80s and 90s.


3 posted on 08/20/2019 12:28:18 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Same thing will happen in the NFL. I’m going to attend more PGA events, most of the players and the league support American values.


4 posted on 08/20/2019 12:28:20 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Its like football. Was an avid fan for many years, nothing crazy mind you but now it just seems like a tremendous waste of time when I can be out doing other more important things and enjoying life.


5 posted on 08/20/2019 12:29:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
I haven't been to an MLB game in 15 years. I've been to one in the last 25 years. And I haven't had our pay cable sports channel in decades. Although I was a huge baseball fan as a kid I don't miss it even a little bit today.
6 posted on 08/20/2019 12:29:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Getting too expensive to attend. Parking $$, high priced tickets if you don’t want out in nosebleed right outfield, $20 hamburger, $10 coke.


7 posted on 08/20/2019 12:30:25 PM PDT by setter
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I had the definite sense after 1994 that the strike was a bridge too far and alienated many fans and that the alienation would be long term, or permanent. Looks like that’s holding true.


8 posted on 08/20/2019 12:32:42 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Cowboy Bob

IMO...
Baseball needs a major upgrade for the 21st century.
many don;t have the patience or the attn span anymore.

maybe institute a “shot clock” for pitches.
A timer for innings change overs.
Some sort of 3 pointers for home runs.
Blocker in the base lines
Water traps/ alligators between 3rd and home..

Anything!! Just speed up the pace and get more excitement in there!!


9 posted on 08/20/2019 12:33:11 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: setter

The half way decent seats are still too expensive. MLB made a conscious effort to make the stadiums smaller and more intimate. More downtown too.


10 posted on 08/20/2019 12:34:17 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

But after 1994, baseball was back on top!

1995: Atlanta Braves end postseason failure, finally win a championship

Mid ‘90s-Early 2010s: New York Yankees back on top; the rise of Derek Jeter

2004: Boston Red Sox end curse

2016: Chicago Cubs break curse

Baseball has done wonders since 1994


11 posted on 08/20/2019 12:35:55 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Cowboy Bob

“1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.”

Same here! That strike turned me off to baseball.

And Krapperdick and the reaction to him did that for me for football.

Now I’m pretty much cured of the addiction to all the “opiods of the people”- which includes TV, movies, sports... Life is so much better.

I’m left with one addiction - FR.


12 posted on 08/20/2019 12:36:37 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I don’t watch baseball because of some long-ago strike. I don’t watch baseball because it’s slow, and dull. Speed it up guys, or you have lost me forever.


13 posted on 08/20/2019 12:36:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Baseball has done wonders since 1994

Steroid use.

14 posted on 08/20/2019 12:37:19 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I wonder how much local tv coverage has impacted the attendance.


15 posted on 08/20/2019 12:38:57 PM PDT by deport
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To: DIRTYSECRET

A major issue with stadiums getting smaller, is that the new ballparks are all baseball only stadiums. The stadiums built in the ‘60s and early ‘70s were almost all built for both baseball and football. The seating arrangements, sightlines, etc. are different for a football only stadium and a baseball only stadium. Building stadiums to accommodate both sports meant the stadiums were not ideal for either.


16 posted on 08/20/2019 12:38:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The strike was 25 years ago. The bigger issues are things like the length of the games and the problems small market teams have competing with the rich teams.


17 posted on 08/20/2019 12:39:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 1Old Pro

I want them ALL to be on steroids.. massive and huge.

And to have MMA action for each runner to get onto each base...

NOW we’d be talking..

That would be worth watching.


18 posted on 08/20/2019 12:41:08 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: uranium penguin

> Just speed up the pace and get more excitement in there!! <

I couldn’t agree more (see my post #13). As it is, you could walk away from a baseball game for 15 or 20 minutes, and hardly miss a thing.

But no way will MLB change a thing. Because of tradition and such. And that’s a shame. Because baseball could be an interesting sport, if only it were updated.


19 posted on 08/20/2019 12:42:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.

For me it was interleague play, the baseball version of shacking up.

I have gone to a couple of games with my ten year old son, because that's part of raising a son. Plus, Cactus League is really cool.
20 posted on 08/20/2019 12:43:57 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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