and MLB conitnues to destroy its own sport. The players will never accept a salary cap, and the fan bases of once great baseball cities will keep shrinking....they know they have zero chance of ever winning. And people wonder why tv ratings for baseball continue to crater....
11 posted on
12/09/2023 2:35:15 PM PST by
basalt
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To: basalt
The two World Series combatants came from Dallas and Phoenix.
31 posted on
12/09/2023 3:40:35 PM PST by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: basalt
The players will never accept a salary cap, and the fan bases of once great baseball cities will keep shrinking
Agreed. Baseball is broken. Possibly beyond repair.
To: basalt
the fan bases of once great baseball cities will keep shrinking....they know they have zero chance of ever winning.
In the later golden age of baseball, there were plenty of cities with loyal fan bases who showed up even though chances of winning were slim. Boston (AL), Philadelphia (NL), Chicago (both), Detroit. The AL teams got to watch the Yankees run away with it half the time, and that was with only 8 teams in the whole league!
MLB's greed with pay TV for mostly late games kept several whole generations of kids from the exposure necessary to become a fan. The expanded playoffs water-down the regular season product as well.
54 posted on
12/09/2023 6:35:33 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
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