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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Baseball is a casual sport with a leisurely pace. So it creates casual fans.
But it’s still a very popular sport. But most fans are really only passionate about “their” team.
Very little national interest. Unlike other sports.
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There's also 162 games.
That cuts both ways. For television providers its an INSANE amount of content. I mean that's essentially 6 months worth of programming for 3 hours in prime-time along with pre and post-game shows. And the production costs are fairly low.
It's a hell of a nice block to be able to throw into your lineup, set and forget half your year.
On the flip side...it's 162 games so you'll just never get the day over day passion because everyone's gonna lose 54 and everyone's gonna win 54. In that regard, 2/3 of the season just doesn't matter much in any given year because it's all but set in stone. Any individual loss over the summer means very little, just as any individual win means very little. So the passion just doesn't come out.
And the pace makes it perfect for that sort of thing. It's background music to your summer. It's there and that's about the extent of it.