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MLB struggling to get attendance back to pre-pandemic levels
Associated Press ^ | July 22, 2022 | Steve Megargee

Posted on 07/23/2022 11:11:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears.

Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2½ months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions.

MLB reached the All-Star break with an average attendance of 26,409. That represents a drop of 5.4% from the All-Star break of 2019 — which was 10 days earlier than this year.

League officials remain encouraged and point to the recovery. […]

… Victor Matheson, a Holy Cross economics professor who specializes in sports economics […] said MLB relies more than other professional sports leagues on out-of-town fans. That makes MLB particularly vulnerable to issues that could curtail tourism. …

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; baseballboring; baseballdying; baseballsux; beisbol; blm; blmmlb; covid1984; getwokegobroke; kneelers; mlb
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To: hinckley buzzard

I have always liked hearing the ball game in the background on a fuzzy radio. Childhood memories but it’s impossible to follow now. Announcers are more cheerleaders than color commentators. All the new stats have me lost.

But the whole ball game has changed and teams playing from different leagues, wild cards...there’s a LOT wrong and they’re just not making it exciting. They should have left the game alone.

It was fine the way it was.


41 posted on 07/23/2022 12:12:45 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I truly believe MLB, the commissioner, and owners are destroying the sport on purpose. They know the constant barrage of communism will eventually kill it dead.

There’s something bigger in play here.

We’re headed back to filling up stadiums to watch gladiator fights to the death and executions. Not sarcasm either...


42 posted on 07/23/2022 12:15:03 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Olog-hai

No longer interested in the game. Seems the lingering effects of the pandemic made them more woke. BLM, homos, transgenders...not for me.

43 posted on 07/23/2022 12:19:10 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Olog-hai

They don’t want Les Misérables watching anyway.


44 posted on 07/23/2022 12:23:41 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: BBQToadRibs2
$6 hotdogs and $10 beer doesn’t help.

Regular take-out restaurants (e.g. Five Guys) have no problems selling $6 hot dogs. Everything costs more.
45 posted on 07/23/2022 12:26:29 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Olog-hai

College baseball is a much more entertaining product.


46 posted on 07/23/2022 12:27:12 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Olog-hai

47 posted on 07/23/2022 12:27:27 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I hate that as well as: interleague play, wild card, three batter rule, the shift, and their desire to go woke.

It has become an ugly, unentertaining sport.


48 posted on 07/23/2022 12:28:24 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: DMD13

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/detroit-tigers-money-trans-surgeries-kids


49 posted on 07/23/2022 12:30:41 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

we paid $$ for my husbands and his dads name on some bricks in a park at Progressive Field.
I am wondering if they are going to take a jackhammer to the bricks that reference the Indians.
Ours did- it said “ Go Tribe”
I’ll take that $$$ back, lol!


50 posted on 07/23/2022 12:42:06 PM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: Olog-hai

I didn’t quit watching because of any pandemic; I quit watching because they allowed the players to insult veterans and other patriotic Americans.


51 posted on 07/23/2022 12:48:30 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: Olog-hai

Who can afford gas to drive to the park and back, even if one wanted to go? Baseball lost me as a fan of one of the greatest games during the last player strike.


52 posted on 07/23/2022 12:53:31 PM PDT by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation )
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To: DMD13
Stupidest thing that they ever did was go to so many night games. On the east coast, kids cannot watch their home teams play games that commence at 11p.m.. They reduced their future fan base by an incalculable number.

Then, even stupider, they instituted that Designated Hitter abomination. Now, big fat pigs such as David Ortiz can ‘earn’ millions of Dollars and never bring a glove to the park. Hall of Fame for him. I used to love to watch Mo Vaughan. Yeah, I used to watch the Red Sox, quit MLB IN 1994, forever.) He was klutzy but dang that guy was so freaking graceful. He played First, mostly. Ortiz played Bench. Screw him.

MLB has so screwed their own product that it is almost laughable. They are fortunate that they have the TV contracts, but that will end. They ain't selling a lot of anything on the East Coast with their commercials at one o'clock in the morning.

53 posted on 07/23/2022 12:53:33 PM PDT by Radix (His Fraudulency Joe Biden)
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To: Leaning Right
Nah, don't be silly.

Major league baseball needs to do away with pitchers having to bat, require players to grow scruffy looking beards and hair half way down to their waist and adopt full length trousers instead of knickers and stirrups.

That will bring the crowds back.

54 posted on 07/23/2022 12:58:42 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Olog-hai

They need to play by the rules the way Abner Doubleday wrote them.
Designated hitters, T ball extra innings rules. Batters stepping out of the batters box after every pitch.
Yuck. Unwatchable.


55 posted on 07/23/2022 1:10:18 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: BlueStateRightist

Overestimate wokeness? No, but the media completely ignore it.

You say “this forum” as if you regard yourself as being an outsider to it.


56 posted on 07/23/2022 1:14:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m done with Corporate Sports.


57 posted on 07/23/2022 1:17:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

$6 COLD hotdogs and $10 WARM beer doesn’t help.

There, that’s more precise.


58 posted on 07/23/2022 1:18:06 PM PDT by twoputt
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To: Karliner

Oh yeah and the constant barrage of equity and of course stupid rule changes where baseball carries 15 pitchers.

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The day is coming when teams will have an offense squad and a defense squad.


59 posted on 07/23/2022 1:19:45 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Luke21

Detroit Tigers suck a$$.


60 posted on 07/23/2022 1:29:55 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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