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How do you explain the decline in baseball's popularity?

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  1. alexander284

    alexander284 Well-Known Member

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    How do you explain the decline in baseball's popularity?
     
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    People, in general, have much more sultry sensual activities available to them these days that they are captivated with. Even the ones attending the games are more into their phone than they are the game. I point that out to my wife all the time. The NFL based their Super Bowl halftime show on it. Fortunately, to date, MLB has not gone down that wicked road, yet.
     
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    If you put down the hooch, you might find another reason for baseball’s decline.

     
  4. Yeshua1

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    Everything now must be very fast paced, and baseball requires one to actually think about strategy!
    mainly, football is king....
     
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    In the south, the thing that killed baseball's popularity is soccer (football for the rest of the world.) When I was a kid, the game that most kids played was baseball. Sometime in the 80's or the 90's that changed to soccer.

    Years later, those kids who's main game was soccer just did not care for baseball as much as the kids from the 40's, 50's, and 60's whose main game was baseball.
     
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    I once went to the "Oregon Trail" museum near Portland. Among the many interesting items were toys that the kids played with while on the trail. No one plays with those toys today. Our existence goes through cycles, we are small, and then we are not. I expect MLB will last as long as needed (for me no more than 10 years) which is fine. But the decline in Christian culture is heartbreaking. To watch Nancy's "christian" behavior behind our President, both petty and preplanned, is more painful than watching the Angels flounder through another season. Yes I played baseball as a youth, but lacking size, strength, speed, and stamina, I became a spectator who imagines he could still run, track and handle a ball hit my way. :)
     
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    Around here, Soccer has always been seen as a sport down while a kid, until gets grown up and graduates toa real sport, like baseball/Basketball/Hockey, and football!
     
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    Its slow and boring.
     
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    You just don't understand what is going on then. It is not slow (in fact at 100mph I'd say it is pretty fast. And with constant activity and drama I would hardly say it is boring.
     
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    I fully understand it. I even coach it at times. In my opinion, if you are not playing or coaching, its boring. I cant stand watching it.100 mph pitch is not as exciting as a knuckle ball.
     
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    Oh I agree. But the game has finesse. It is 1,000000000000000 times better than football or even basketball.
     
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    Yep, I'd agree that baseball is the most complex sport out of the big five in this country, the others being football, basketball, hockey and soccer. The last two are still regional sports in a lot of ways, and basketball is too fast paced for me - you run down one court and then run the other way and try to either get the ball in the next or stop the other team from doing that.

    Football, well, the Super Bowl this year had a lot of commercials to the point the game was crawling compared with that of the World Series. In football, there's long passes, screen passes, lateral passes, blah blah blah but c'mon, compare that the fastball, the slider, the breaking ball, the curve, in MLB. And there's the percentage game to play with the batter and the hitter. One advantage of the NFL, thought, it's easy to get stuck with a perennial losing team (Mariners, Pirates, et al) in the MLB than in the NFL, the baseball farm system could be tweaked to help that out. Football for the fall/winter, baseball for the spring/summer.
     
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    Perhaps you should learn cricket. You could then play us, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, Ceylon, etc.
     
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    Football is the true strategy game. The RPO has made football like chess.
     
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    :rolleyes:
     
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    Dumb people. :Biggrin
     
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    Weeding out the chaff....
     
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    Yes. I played based at the junior varsity level, and I find baseball incredibly boring, also! :)
     
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