Is baseball a dying sport that will be buried along with baby boomers?

>>76267969
>>76267969
>live in cincy
>get $3 tickets to games
really swell way to spend an afternoon desu

I dunno, when i go to red sox games i always see 10x more younglings and yuppies than i do old people

The '16 World Series had its highest TV ratings since 1991.

LOLOL APEHOOP NIGGERS ON FULL DAMAGE CONTROL BECAUSE NOBODY CARES ABOUT THEIR SHITTY RIGGED SPORT AND ITS LAME-ASS FINALS

GO SUCK LEBRONS BBC SOME MORE

Baseball is dying, said increasingly nervous child with ADD for the 113th year in a row

>>76267969
>said the increasingly uppity nigger for the 12th time this year

>>76267969
Take your proxy off Muhammadou, I know it's you

The older you get the more it'll interest you. Unless you're black or have ADHD/millennial disease.

I hope not. it's the only sport I like.

>>76269006
lol it's not, dumb niggers and low attention span millennial faggots only think so because (((ESPN))) has been critical of it as of late.

>>76267969
>As if all the Viagra and retirement plan ads during commercial breaks aren't a dead giveaway.
They do this for every sport on local sports networks, nigger

>>76268798
>LOLOL APEHOOP NIGGERS ON FULL DAMAGE CONTROL BECAUSE NOBODY CARES ABOUT THEIR SHITTY RIGGED SPORT AND ITS LAME-ASS FINALS

Wait, doesn't luckswing feature the Bankees?

It isn't, its just different from nfl, nba etc in that people really only want to watch THEIR team, they dont particularly care about nationally televised matchups even if they are the best teams. So for whatever massive tv deals are signed, its rarely worth it unless there are large market teams playing or there is a big meme like the cubs not winning in 108 years. I think if they marketed mlb.tv more and offered cheaper, team specific streaming packages that did not require you to also pay for cable they would make an absolute killing, but I doubt they can do that under their current tv licensing deals.

>>76269141
What's your point? they haven't been good in years and only started improving once they stopped buying old players for a gazillion dollars and instead concentrated on developing prospects.

Baseball, despite no salary cap, has the best parity of all the sports leagues.

>>76269141
Who haven't won a World Series since 2009 and small market teams like the Royals won in 2015. This NEVER happens in NBA and you know it. The Jews purposely make the NBA a show year after year because they can make easy shekels off of flashy shit.

It markets teams, not players.
No Curry chucking or Odell one handed catches.

More like "These mets have some 86 magic" or "These Cubs are doing what hasnt been done since....1908"

>>76269224
>Baseball, despite no salary cap, has the best parity of all the sports leagues.

Yes and no. When the Yankees suck (for example in the 80s and now this decade), parity is great. When they're good, like for example in the 90s, forget about it, the rest of the league doesn't have a chance.

>>76269226
Since 2011 we've had the Mavericks, Warriors, and Cavs all win the NBA title. The Lakers and Celtics haven't been a factor in years.

>>76269272
This. I can't understand star worship culture but it makes sense that this is the new normal because hyper individualism exists now. It's now about players vs. each other instead of teams vs. each other, which is what sports was supposed to be like years ago

>>76269285
Because they had good teams, dipshit
>>76269352
Then how come they routinely have the best teams every year instead of having to compete like every team in the MLB does on a yearly basis?

>>76269042
>>76268798
I want /pol/ to leave.

>>76269645
Fact: /spol/ is the MOST POWERFUL crossover in the WORLD

Any time the Yankees suck is good.

>>76267969
I swear I read a post exactly like this on /sp/ every day since 2012 and it never dies

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>>76270192

Hockey and baseball seem to be the sports /sp/ loves to hate on the most.

And the OP isn't true. Baseball is healthier than ever, even among "young people."

The retarded perception that only old people watch baseball comes from how journalists uses ESPN ratings as their "evidence."

All the "young people" will be likely be watching their own teams on a regional network, not tuning into ESPN for Giants vs. Mets or whatever.

>>76270426
Then again, I saw one study showing that the 2012 World Series had an average viewer age of 53 while the average viewer age for NBA and NFL games was under 45.

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Baseball is objectively the best American sport. It can't be argued. The lore puts it over the top. The closest thing to lore that the CuckBA has is LeRest sitting out games in the regular season because they're so meaningless.

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Reminder that you've all been living on borrowed time. This is only the beginning

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>>76270698
>mfw baseball btfo millenial cuckhoop scum

Literally better ratings and WAY higher revenue than both the NBA and NHL

Don't let ESPN try and trick you into thinking the MLB is dying, that's just them wanting to convince everyone basketball is bigger and they should watch more SC6 while Jemele "I am the worst sports commentator on the fucking planet" Hill

>>76267969
Its popularity is relatively stagnant as a % of the population so it'll probably remain #2

Icefight is more irrelevant than baseball desu.

>>76269141
They've won once in the last 16 years. Unfortunately, it looks like we're entering a Yankees dynasty again

>>76269152
>offered cheaper, team specific streaming packages
They do

>>76270859

neither of those statements are true, btw

I think there's enough Mexicans to keep baseball alive for a while yet.

there's too many fucking games for any given night to matter, hence making it not-must-watch TV, unlike other leagues where the premiere teams meeting is only a few times a season occasion

>>76271004

regular season clearly doesnt matter in the NBA

>>76271004
>every apehoop game favors the better team
>incredibly large gaps in conference standings
Nice """sport"""

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>people really think the Yankees are the upcoming dynasty team

>>76270860
that you dont need a cable package for? Last I checked you can literally only get those if you also have cable

for the amount of games they play they need to add more teams to the playoffs

>>76271067
Part of what makes it good is that only good teams make it to the playoffs though. Adding more would be stupid.

>>76271020
Or the NHL for that matter.

>>76270480
>I saw one study showing that the 2012 World Series had an average viewer age of 53

The World Series often runs against regular season NFL games, which cannibalizes a lot of potential viewers.

>be me
>love the NFL and watch all those games

>have watched the NBA for a long time but the state of the league now has made me stop

>trying to get into hockey but really hard with no connection or history with the sport or any team

>really like baseball as a sport, but have no interest in watching games that aren't of my team (unless playoffs) and can't spend time watching when my team (the A's) suck because of how many games there are

>>76267969
Not really. Focusing on TV viewership is a horrible indicator. Baseball is more of a casual in person social entertainment experience with younger people.

>>76269645
>Constantly interject leftist shit we don't like in every nook and cranny of society
>Someone speaks out about it
>Durr /pol/ racists leave

Go watch your oafish niggers prance around and jack off to cuck threads in /gif/

>>76267969
I'm sorry but this "baseball is dying" meme is a concerted effort by libshits to kill it and put their basketball at #2. NBA is watched mainly by liberals because half of them are black, and a lot of the whites are cucks. Baseball is pretty center right on average. Why is there never an argument that whites are leaving the NBA in droves(the people with the most money)? It's about hockey-tier with whites at this point.

>>76269141
>luckswing
>ted williams was just lucky
>albert pujols was just lucky
wew

>>76268496

Hey Fellow Cincy bro. Where you scoring tix that cheap? I'm jelly.

>>76271020
The NBA should just have a March Madness format and last until mid-November or something so it wouldn't take so much of everyone's time for literally nothing.

>>76267969
Looks that way, the average age of baseball fans is like 50.

Gen Z is the social media generation and MLB has a pretty low presence on social media compared to the NFL or NBA. The MLB is also terrible at marketing their star players, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are literal whos compared to Aaron Rodgers or Steph Curry.

>>76271506
>It's about hockey-tier with whites at this point.
It's not even close.

http://nebula.wsimg.com/d96daf1e011b077b2fd9ff4cfe4bf1bc?AccessKeyId=DAC3A56D8FB782449D2A&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
>Combining the percentage of black players (7.73%) and Latino, Asian and other diverse players (34.6%), the game has reached unprecedented levels of diversity (42.33%) on non-DL active Opening Day rosters.

MLB isn't some White utopia, it's more diverse than it's ever been, there are just more Spics than Nigs now.

>>76271707
Compare that to the NFL and NBA where it's 90% or more black and there are little to no Hispanic/Asian players in either leagues. Besides fuck stardom culture. This defeats the idea of teams. Leave it to people like you to give into the narcissistic auras that come into other leagues. Let the MLB do its own thing. Nice Reddit spacing though, friendo.

>>76271707
>The MLB is also terrible at marketing their star players, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are literal whos compared to Aaron Rodgers or Steph Curry.
Thank fuck. Spare me of seeing shit like "LEBRON WATCH" during games. It's retarded.

>>76271707
>games should be about players against each other rather than teams
KYS faggot, I'll take team games instead of shilling for just one guy every damn game.

>>76271764
>Compare that to the NFL and NBA
You were comparing it to hockey.
>Besides fuck stardom culture
Attracting kiddies who like this is what leagues need to do for longevity. Pander to all the little niggers, spics and white trash to get them hooked for life.

>>76271778
>>76271798
Not an argument.

>>76271822
I'm a different anon and my point still stands. If MLB can't be diverse then am I allowed to point out that maybe it's not such a bad thing like you're implying?
>>76271822
>Good goyim, let's watch LeBron take on the Warriors every day, forget about the rest of the Cleveland team its all him that matters.
Fuck off kike, no one here likes your marketing abilities

Please delete /pol/, Hiro. I beg of you.

>>76271857
>Fuck off kike, no one here likes your marketing abilities
You think the MLB is some omnibenevolent force that will exist forever and doesn't care about money? There's a reason Manford is scrambling to change the game, there won't be a constant stream of 50 year old fans to keep the league alive. Millennials and Gen Z don't watch TV, MLB is shit at appealing to them so the inevitable result is a continued decline.

>>76271922
>Millennials and Gen Z don't watch TV

Since when has baseball ever been a TV sport outside the postseason? You either listen on the radio while doing the dishes or attend the games in person.

>>76271707
He meant by viewership, not by roster makeup, you fucking imbecile.

>>76267969
players get way paid more and are less apt to get brain damage so it will probably be around after football is gone

>>76268796
>two most cursed teams in baseball
>big-market Cubs
hmm I wonder why

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The 50s must have sucked in every way possible for anyone who didn't live in NYC.

>>76272550
Lousy overall decade for baseball with boomer nostalgia inflating its reputation.

>>76269141
The only World Series the Yankees actually won on the backs of free agents was 2009.

>>76271506
NBA is the only sports league in America that is watched by a majority black audience. It can't grow anymore.

>>76272550
Until 2016, the '01 Series was probably the best one in the lifetime of most people on /sp/.

>Bankees prevented from winning a fifth ring by a huge underdog expansion franchise with no history or serious fanbase
>right after 9/11 when everyone wanted them to win one for New York

>>76269224
You're right but the luck factor of the playoffs exacerbates this, which I don't like personally.

>>76272784
Maybe so, but historically they always had a massive advantage being located in NYC and being able to attract the best players. I mean, not many guys wanted to play in some backwater of the Midwest.

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>>76272550
>>76272550
Three of the greatest centerfielders ever all played in New York in the 50s. Mickey Mantles for the Yanks. Willie Mays for the Giants. Duke Snider for the Dodgers.

>>76272798
Yanks spent all their magic just win their three games in NY. The Diamondbacks got their turn of luck though. The Luis Gonzalez game winning hit, a short looping single, in Game 7 off Rivera would have been an out if Jeter were positioned normally, but the infield was playing in.

>>76269285
Outside of that tear they went on from 1996-2000 they've 1 world series in about 35 years.

To be fair the biggest culprit is that it's hard to get through a best of 5 and 2 best of sevens because of the luck factor of an individual baseball game. Literally anyone can win if they just get in. Nobody was thinking the pacers and blazers were going to play in the finals.

>>76272881
Most of the Yankees' wins happened when there were no playoffs and significantly less teams.

>>76272730
It was. Attendance at baseball games dropped considerably during the 50s with the event of TV and other things to draw people away.

And yes, during the Eisenhower years they were saying baseball was dead just like every decade since the 1800s, and that it had become a commercialized borefest where players cared more about their stock options than the game.

>>76271886
You have literally the entirety of the internet where if something to the right of Stalin is said, they're permabanned. Go there and fuck off

>>76272894
The Yankees would certainly have less championships if today's playoff system existed since 1923, but they would still have more championships than any other team. The Yankees have almost always had a good front office which is key to prolonged success. Ed Barrow made the Yankees what they are today.

>>76272929
>The Yankees have almost always had a good front office which is key to prolonged success
Not so much during the CBS years in 1966-73 when they were a doormat. Also they went through a prolonged period of suckage in the 80s.

>>76272944
Certainly, but the groundwork and blueprint has always been there for the Yanks. They haven't had a losing season since 1991 -- and fielded bad, bad teams in 2013 and 2014. That's the second longest consecutive winning seasons streak behind the Yankees from '26-'64 (39 seasons).

The only time the Yankees have ever had a losing record in a decade were the 1910s. The only decades the Yankees never won a world series were the 1900s, 1910s, and 1980s (2010s so far). And every other decade they've won at least two world series in.

The Yankees organization has almost always been well run and that's their key to success. Organizational strength and leadership is why the Mets, in the same city, can never maintain winning.

>>76272944
CBS had them less than a decade and yes, the team was run poorly during that period.

>>76272828
Chicago is big market but it didn't stop the Cusb from going 108 years without a World Series and also the Bears have never been all that successful historically.

And let's not even get into the Knicks. They're a New York team yes, but their management compared with the Lakers has been historically garbage. The Lakers are called the Yankees of basketball for a reason, they've always had a great front office that could pick out the best players.

>>76273083
The 90s Knicks were pretty good, but they couldn't scale Mt. Chicago.

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baseball isn't dying. But its playerbase doesn't really progress, notably for the teens.
And we all know that youth participating in a sport are likely to be future customers for this sport.
Baseball state isn't really worrying 2bh. It's more handegg which could disappear really fast (no playerbase outside USA and extremely fast proplayer attrition)

>>76273083
Yeah I never got the big markets dominate meme. Sure ny has the yankess and la has the Lakers but both cities have completely checkered histories sports wise. Chicago outside of Jordan for 6 yrs and the Blackhawks recently has been pretty bad. Houston and Philly are both below average. those are your top 5 markets.

>>76271065

Nope. The only thing is that you can't stream local teams due to blackout restrictions, but you can get a vpn and get around it anyway

>>76268496
>living in Ohio
Why would you do this to your family?

>>76267969
>i don't like baseball, so it means it is dying
>r-right guyse?

>>76270426
>auto racing that high
I never met a person interested in auto racing in my life. It's only big in the South.

>>76276200
Cincy and Columbus have some of the countries best cost of living to job opportunity stats in the country. Sure it's dumb to live there if your rich, but middle class it's hard to beat.

>>76276222
Sports in general are dying in the US. Younger people are not getting cable. When you are not exposed to it at a young age then you won't watch it later in life. The only reason the Super Bowl gets so many viewers is because its viewed as a party and people love food and drinking not necessarily watching jamals and one white guy chase a pigskin.

>>76270426
bro in between discussions of spike lees new file and the new migos albume i heard baseball sucks on sporscenter at 6

>>76276252
How many limbs do your kids have? I imagine the water tastes very metallic.

>>76276224
Go to a trailer park then because fortunately you've never had the pleasure. Probably the 2nd sport with low class whites. I don't watch it now but I use to love it and I promise you I'm not a hick.

>>76276287
Anon did you go to trailer parks to fuck white trash and get some cheap drugs?

>>76276265
I moved lol

>>76276298
Yes(no really that is why)
>ywn get loose trailer park pussy
Missing out dude

>>76276252
>cincy and columbus
I like how you left out Cleveland.

>>76276335
Because Cleveland isn't the same case. Overrun with with nog democrats so it's actually kind of expensive to live there

>>76267969
despite what the (((media))) reports, Baseball is the 2nd most popular sport in the US.

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>>76268798
>LeBrons BBC
He doesn't know

>>76270859
Horrible post

>>76273083
>The Lakers are called the Yankees of basketball for a reason, they've always had a great front office that could pick out the best players

It creates a domino effect; kids who grew up worshiping Kareem, Magic, Kobe...they all wanted to be a Laker when they grew up, not a player for the Toronto Craptors or something.

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This thread is retarded, the OP is a retardws north american pavement ape, a disgusting degenerate with ADHD, a cuckold European, or a millennial.

Find a way to kill you

>>76267969
No.

>>76276224
Auto racing is another sport I've heard from time to time has lost favor among the young, that most people in attendance at NASCAR events are over 45. Probably has to do with car culture being less important to Millenials.

>>76273083
Hawks almost 50 years between Stanley Cups.

>>76271626
>>76271626
Stub hub. They arent always that cheap but they are every now and then

>>76272798
2002 world series was comfy as fuck too

>dying sport
>2nd most profitable sport in the world
Nice meme
The asians and south and Central Americans will keep it alive

>>76271608
Given Ted Williams's lack of rings, I wouldn't really call him lucky.

>>76271506
>>>/pol/

>>76272828
Wrong
Yankees always paid the most because of being a big market team but that has changed since the 90s

For example people today aren't going to join the Yankees with that retarded clean cut rule that players today do not enjoy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/is-the-game-over.html

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>>76288071
>opinion piece

Baseball is far from dying, but there are a lot more competing distractions than in Babe Ruth's time hence it can't be America's Pastime (TM) in the same way it once was.

Baseball is immortal

It is a sport so timeless that no number of E!SPNs, social medias, personalities, or muhlennials can conceivably put an end to the national pastime

>>76285849
Lol whatever, it's the 2nd biggest revenue sport in the world and all I've heard for 20 years is it's impending doom. It's absolutely a disguised concerted poltical agenda pushed by the national media.

>>76283292
NASCAR really is dying though. They've taken huge swaths of seats out of most tracks and still can't come close to selling out and the tv ratings have fallen off a cliff.

>>76271388
>Constantly interject leftist shit we don't like in every nook and cranny of society

America is the most openly conservative society in the world that isn't some 3rd world shit hole or a religious theocracy.

TV ratings are falling off and there's a lot of Viagra ads because [spoiler]younger people don't watch as much TV[/spoiler]

>>76271132
whats your point? in 1993 the giants finished 103-59 and didn't make the playoffs, teams with shittier records got in.

NASCAR has declined because the whole thing has gotten too slick and corporate, the days of colorful racing pirates like Dick Petty are over and there's no standout drivers anymore, plus all the cars are identical. Sports like the NBA for comparison have their superstars that kids look up to and add color to the game.

>>76289186
Don't agree. In any sport, the best players are the guys who keep it clean, professional, and don't embarrass themselves. Tom Brady is as clean-cut and professional as it gets. Brett Favre was not, he was a crybaby attention whore and as a consequence he could never touch the true great QBs like Montana and Brady.

NASCAR has too many stupid hillbilly fans who resist any sort of change as they jerk off to their Earnhardt poster in their mobile home and want to live in 1988 forever.

>>76289186
>>76289223
And Petty was a lot more professional than most people remember.