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Originally Posted by jingram058
The undeniable fact is, baseball IS dying, 100 years of baseball dying history or otherwise. I truly believe the root cause is the money these days. A nine inning game on TV cannot be sped up because of money. But there is more. Interest level. With everything available to everyone, so many diverse interests today, it is unrealistic to expect baseball to be as popular as even 20 to 25 years ago.
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“Baseball will go broke because it makes too much money”.
You are right that the entertainment world is more niches than ever. That’s the reality…baseball will never be what it was in the 1950’s from a “general popularity” perspective, but neither will anything else.
Baseball is less “generally popular” now than it away 25 years ago (well, maybe 24 years ago), but the game brings in more money now than it did then, even adjusting for inflation.