Baseball is dying and tonight's a prime reason why..

[Vlad the Impaler]

I cant watch baseball casually. Too much time between pitches, not enough action. Game should be shortened, fences brought in, a batter doesn't need to step out of batters box on every pitch and get meaningless signs. They are so obsessed with stats. There should be open acknowledgement that hs players of today are better than the guys who were roofers during the day and baseball players at night back in the day.

Only reason I watch baseball is live betting. I really don't even know that many players especially since half of them have some Dominican name

 

[Willie99]

To point to the revenue increase is foolish... Every single major sport is up significantly given the digital age, league passes, and teams having their own networks etc

to suggest a sport is dying when making more than ever is foolish

increased attendance, increased revenues, biggest TV deals ever, new stadiums ................, what a way to die

it's not dying simply because you don't like long games my friend

 

[Acebb]

I can't believe people don't like baseball. I have the MLB network on all the time. I love going to games when I can.

I'd rather watch the Cubs play the D'backs on a Tuesday night than watch any soccer match. Including any World Cup match, even with the American team.

 

[skoda]

horse racing 2 minutes. "I'll say average age in this thread," is 45....

age in this thread is still holding at 45

 

[gtc08]

I can't believe people don't like baseball. I have the MLB network on all the time. I love going to games when I can.

I'd rather watch the Cubs play the D'backs on a Tuesday night than watch any soccer match. Including any World Cup match, even with the American team.

your probably a white male, most likely a conservative white male. your breed is dying out. the growing demos of asians hispanics and blacks do not watch baseball, which is why the nba passed mlb 5 years ago as the second sport. as the demos continue to grow and whites continue to die off, baseball will become even more insignificant. even young whites will go with nba and nfl over mlb.

 

[Acebb]

your probably a white male, most likely a conservative white male. your breed is dying out. the growing demos of asians hispanics and blacks do not watch baseball, which is why the nba passed mlb 5 years ago as the second sport. as the demos continue to grow and whites continue to die off, baseball will become even more insignificant. even young whites will go with nba and nfl over mlb.

You are under some goofy, bizarre delusion that white males are "dying out"

You also can't help yourself from injecting your idiotic racist views into every thread here.

 

[gtc08]

You are under some goofy, bizarre delusion that white males are "dying out"

You also can't help yourself from injecting your idiotic racist views into every thread here.

dying out meaning being replaced with hispanics and asians and blacks. the white birth rate is minute compared to those other groups i mentioned. of course whites wont go extinct, but they will continue to be a smaller and smaller part of the population, which means traditionally white sports like mlb and nhl will continue to languish, while the nba and nfl continue to grow. its common sense, its called reading demographics, and that is not racist, regardless of what the forum pc police think, that is simple statistics.

 

[scottcarter]

your probably a white male, most likely a conservative white male. your breed is dying out. the growing demos of asians hispanics and blacks do not watch baseball, which is why the nba passed mlb 5 years ago as the second sport. as the demos continue to grow and whites continue to die off, baseball will become even more insignificant. even young whites will go with nba and nfl over mlb.

huh?

 

[Well-Seasoned]

Seems like a common argument these days is to say a sport is dying out LOL.......I've heard it about Horse Racing, Boxing, Baseball, and others...

Reality is there are just a lot of options these days in all sorts of sectors......Yet the Kentucky Derby still had 150,000 people live again this year....Boxing still has Mayweather making a record amount.....Baseball will still be watched and games attended....You think baseball gonna die in places like St.Louis, Chicago, New York, or Boston for example.....That won't happen....The Cubs prove that as they haven't won the big one in forever, yet the fans still come.....

It depends more on the city than the sport plus how many options to do are in that city as some cities there are things to do besides sports all the time...

NFL is #1 and College Football is right there with it and obviously extremely huge in the South........March Madness College Basketball is so big that it is ruled the least productive work day of the year around the country I once read (the days it starts)...NBA, people only care when the playoffs start as nobody cares about the regular season......Golf is bigger when Tiger Woods plays.......Then throw in the World Cup like this year and that is dominating other sports at the moment like baseball.........The reality is there are piles of options these days so to say this is dying or that is dying is ridiculous when its just a lot more options (a lot of areas, not just sports) and more competition....

 

[JohnnyMac]

dying out meaning being replaced with hispanics and asians and blacks. the white birth rate is minute compared to those other groups i mentioned. of course whites wont go extinct, but they will continue to be a smaller and smaller part of the population, which means traditionally white sports like mlb and nhl will continue to languish, while the nba and nfl continue to grow. its common sense, its called reading demographics, and that is not racist, regardless of what the forum pc police think, that is simple statistics.

What this really means is that the wrong people (read: economically-disadvantaged) are having too many kids. Sure, the NBA and NFL may have a larger pool of kids trying to play their sports, but all that means is that there will be that many more failing, and ending up in poverty, or prison.

 

[GoBlue34]

My son plays on a select traveling baseball team and I really enjoy those games (but I obviously have a rooting interest). About it being a "white" sport I agree. We don't have a ton of black people in Nebraska but it's rare enough that when a team we play has a black kid, I notice it which is very rare. We travel all over the midwest too and we have only played a team with more black kids than white once and it was a team from Chicago and again, pretty rare to see any if more than 1.

As for baseball, I don't gamble on it and rarely follow. Couldn't tell you who is doing well this year outside of my Pirates not doing too well and the Royals only a few games back. I don't even know who is winning the other divisions.

More kids are playing baseball and soccer over football than before (football still king) but agree that baseball is too long and too slow for this day and age. My son's games are 6 innings, 1 hour 50 minute time limit. Plenty long

 

[packer2012]

Best of luck with your son.

As many know...... so many adults now are using the kids like "meat" to make a buck. Everywhere you look there are a million travel teams in all the sports. People build complexes to host the tournament... AND GET PAID...... people want to privately train the kids.... AND GET PAID...... everybody and their brother want to get paid and the kids end up worn out and burned out.

Not to forget..... "Coach Dicknose" at school won't choose Susie or Little John-Boy for the team.... unless they play with the correct summer travel team. The "best" travel team?, the fairly priced travel team?, or the travel team associated with Coach Dicknose's dumb-assed cousin?

Those of you with kids in your extended family know exactly what I refer to.

Hope you don't have to put up with this shit GoBlue..... but if you don't.... you probably will have sooner or later. Sign of the times!

Anyway.... hope your son enjoys the "great game".

 

[Akillies]

You are under some goofy, bizarre delusion that white males are "dying out"

You also can't help yourself from injecting your idiotic racist views into every thread here.

+++++++++

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

dying out meaning being replaced with hispanics and asians and blacks. the white birth rate is minute compared to those other groups i mentioned. of course whites wont go extinct, but they will continue to be a smaller and smaller part of the population, which means traditionally white sports like mlb and nhl will continue to languish, while the nba and nfl continue to grow. its common sense, its called reading demographics, and that is not racist, regardless of what the forum pc police think, that is simple statistics.

That means the wrong ones are reproducing. No shock there. See how many times they will mention how Tyrone was one of 16 kids. They say it as an accomplishment. My God, Dwayne Wade's mom is still in and out of jail and that is with her having access to millions. And if MLB is dying out based on race yet the NBA is not, who are the ones going to games? Who are the ones buying the cable packages? I will give the homeboys this, they are prob. the ones buying the jerseys and shoes. Blacks take shoes extremely serious. They would gun one down in a second over shoes because of poor impulse control.

 

[StevieRay]

"expand to Chicago"

hahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

 

[Akillies]

why is it that mlb allows the constant delays, stoppages, which make the game so boring?
seems like they could stop batters [pedroia for example] from adjusted their velcro multiple time before every pitch

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

why is it that mlb allows the constant delays, stoppages, which make the game so boring?
seems like they could stop batters [pedroia for example] from adjusted their velcro multiple time before every pitch

That is why I say they need to stop the constant stepping out of batters box on every pitch. Then they stare down the 3rd baseline to get a signal that means absolutely nothing 95% of the time while adjusting themselves and adjusting their body armour

 

[BostonBettor]

I think they need to ban the Red Sox and Yankees from Sunday Night Baseball. These two teams take frigging forever. I don't even bother to watch.

 

[GoBlue34]

Best of luck with your son.

As many know...... so many adults now are using the kids like "meat" to make a buck. Everywhere you look there are a million travel teams in all the sports. People build complexes to host the tournament... AND GET PAID...... people want to privately train the kids.... AND GET PAID...... everybody and their brother want to get paid and the kids end up worn out and burned out.

Not to forget..... "Coach Dicknose" at school won't choose Susie or Little John-Boy for the team.... unless they play with the correct summer travel team. The "best" travel team?, the fairly priced travel team?, or the travel team associated with Coach Dicknose's dumb-assed cousin?

Those of you with kids in your extended family know exactly what I refer to.

Hope you don't have to put up with this shit GoBlue..... but if you don't.... you probably will have sooner or later. Sign of the times!

Anyway.... hope your son enjoys the "great game".

Way too many parents act the way you describe Packer. The loses affect some of the parents more than the kids (12U baseball). I've noticed that there are more dicks coaching baseball than not and it's pretty rare we play a team where I tell my wife "I would let my kid play for that coach." Usually I tell my wife no way he would ever play for that team/coach.

My son also does traveling/select basketball and while we still run into a jerk from time to time, seems way more often in baseball. Don't know why that is.....I coach his basketball team and enjoy that much more than baseball and run into black teams all the time, even in Nebraska.

Youth sports sure is crazy now then when I was a kid. We traveled and hour max and our team went to Denver, 8 hours away for a tournament.

 

[packer2012]

12 is a cool age. Unfortunately, age 10 to 12 the people really start to try to get their hooks into the kids/families.

Just all about the money, like everything else. So many of the Coaches, if not all about the money, so want to be Bob Knight, Coach K, (insert MLB coach here), or whatever.

Enjoy it Man. They do grow up awfully fast, like people say. Hope your boy, wife and family enjoy it all too!