Baseball headed for extinction

bubbrubb · Jul 20, 2013

I was taking to my friend adn we both agreed that baseball is slowly going into extinction. Anybody else agree with this?

empty stadiums, boring game, best athletes are playing other sports, etc.

Subzero717 · Jul 20, 2013

bubbrubb":2vv8vepc said:
I was taking to my friend adn we both agreed that baseball is slowly going into extinction. Anybody else agree with this?

empty stadiums, boring game, best athletes are playing other sports, etc.

Teenagers?

SonicHawk · Jul 20, 2013

It absolutely is not.

List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues:
National Football League 254 67,358[6][7][8] 17,124,389
Bundesliga Association 306 45,179[11] 13,805,496
Premier League 380 34,601 13,148,465[13]
Major League Baseball 2,421 30,884[2] 74,859,268
La Liga 380 30,275 11,504,567
Nippon Professional Baseball846 25,626[3] 21,679,596

Those are the top 6 in average attendance per game/match/whatever.

1 Football, 3 Soccer, 2 Baseball.

Baseball has great players, gets on TV, is talked about on sports radio and has an international following.

You and your friend are both very very very ill-informed.

CPHawk · Jul 20, 2013

Baseball cares a ton more about TV than they do actual asses in the stands. According to them, TV numbers are great.

bubbrubb · Jul 20, 2013

Well i think its growing everywhere except for North America. I dont think im ill-informed, moreso have a different opinion?

m0ng0 · Jul 20, 2013

so what do the elite athlete's play these days ?

JSeahawks · Jul 20, 2013

Baseball to me is boring as hell and I don't care to watch it personally, but there will always be baseball fans and it will remain a viable sport. Although i'm not sure you can still call it "America's pastime" as it used to be known.

sc85sis · Jul 20, 2013

I find baseball way more interesting at the park than on TV usually.

SeaTown81 · Jul 20, 2013

Not just. But once my generation (I'm 31) is dead and gone, yes, I can see it. I know every generation thinks the one following them is crazy and different. But really, the level of ADD of kids being born today is going to be so insane through the roof, I can't see how baseball can continue past the age of us old fogies who remember the days when there was no internet.

chris98251 · Jul 21, 2013

Like Football and Basketball, the Free Agency aspect has cost allegiance of fans, yes attendence is still good now, but teams don't have the identity they once did. I think the Free agency while good for players will eventually make everything vanilla, iconic players are getting more and more rare to witness have a long career. Those are the players that make leagues successful.

Largent80 · Jul 21, 2013

Dodgers had well over 200,000 for a 4 game series with Colo. before the break, hardly extinct.

Subzero717 · Jul 21, 2013

I think it depends on where you live that may give you that idea. My cousin lives in Spokane and swears the same. Go to Cincinnati, St. Louis and say the same. L.A. is the second largest media market in the US with no NFL and the Dodgers and Anaheim both have good baseball attendance and huge TV contracts.

jkitsune · Jul 21, 2013

Disagree entirely. Impossible to predict what is going to happen 50 years from now, but I doubt MLB will fold within our lifetimes. The NFL is more popular for certain, but the NBA and NHL both have a very long way to go to compete with MLB.

bubbrubb · Jul 21, 2013

SeaTown81":31yk1na2 said:
Not just. But once my generation (I'm 31) is dead and gone, yes, I can see it. I know every generation thinks the one following them is crazy and different. But really, the level of ADD of kids being born today is going to be so insane through the roof, I can't see how baseball can continue past the age of us old fogies who remember the days when there was no internet.

exactly!

hawksfansinceday1 · Jul 21, 2013

sc85sis":2neh59yd said:
I find baseball way more interesting at the park than on TV usually.

Much better game in person for sure, especially on a warm evening.

Lords of Scythia · Jul 23, 2013

SonicHawk":hn4gzaxx said:
It absolutely is not.

List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues:
National Football League 254 67,358[6][7][8] 17,124,389
Bundesliga Association 306 45,179[11] 13,805,496
Premier League 380 34,601 13,148,465[13]
Major League Baseball 2,421 30,884[2] 74,859,268
La Liga 380 30,275 11,504,567
Nippon Professional Baseball846 25,626[3] 21,679,596

Those are the top 6 in average attendance per game/match/whatever.

1 Football, 3 Soccer, 2 Baseball.

Baseball has great players, gets on TV, is talked about on sports radio and has an international following.

You and your friend are both very very very ill-informed.

There's also a hell of a lot more games in baseball, so the sum total is higher than the individual game #s

SonicHawk · Jul 23, 2013

Lords of Scythia":3fmeq8js said:
SonicHawk":3fmeq8js said:

It absolutely is not.

List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues:
National Football League 254 67,358[6][7][8] 17,124,389
Bundesliga Association 306 45,179[11] 13,805,496
Premier League 380 34,601 13,148,465[13]
Major League Baseball 2,421 30,884[2] 74,859,268
La Liga 380 30,275 11,504,567
Nippon Professional Baseball846 25,626[3] 21,679,596

Those are the top 6 in average attendance per game/match/whatever.

1 Football, 3 Soccer, 2 Baseball.

Baseball has great players, gets on TV, is talked about on sports radio and has an international following.

You and your friend are both very very very ill-informed.

Click to expand...

There's also a hell of a lot more games in baseball, so the sum total is higher than the individual game #s

I'm sorry you can't read but this is based off AVERAGE attendance.

bubbrubb · Jul 23, 2013

and also the fact that baseball tix are extremely cheap relative to other sports. Once the nostalgic older generation dies off, baseball will be below MLS and others. That being said, went to my first MLS game with my cousin who is in Timbers Army....what an experience! I was a soccer hater for so long....now thats a sport on the rise.

Lords of Scythia · Jul 23, 2013

SonicHawk":3ex2ejrd said:
Lords of Scythia":3ex2ejrd said:

SonicHawk":3ex2ejrd said:

It absolutely is not.

List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues:
National Football League 254 67,358[6][7][8] 17,124,389
Bundesliga Association 306 45,179[11] 13,805,496
Premier League 380 34,601 13,148,465[13]
Major League Baseball 2,421 30,884[2] 74,859,268
La Liga 380 30,275 11,504,567
Nippon Professional Baseball846 25,626[3] 21,679,596

Those are the top 6 in average attendance per game/match/whatever.

1 Football, 3 Soccer, 2 Baseball.

Baseball has great players, gets on TV, is talked about on sports radio and has an international following.

You and your friend are both very very very ill-informed.

Click to expand...

There's also a hell of a lot more games in baseball, so the sum total is higher than the individual game #s

Click to expand...

I'm sorry you can't read but this is based off AVERAGE attendance.

I can read. You said: "Those are the top 6 in average attendance per game/match/whatever." Reformulate your point.

Subzero717 · Jul 23, 2013

bubbrubb":2xgo7ili said:
and also the fact that baseball tix are extremely cheap relative to other sports. Once the nostalgic older generation dies off, baseball will be below MLS and others. That being said, went to my first MLS game with my cousin who is in Timbers Army....what an experience! I was a soccer hater for so long....now thats a sport on the rise.

Try watching it on TV.

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