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04-28-2024, 07:39 AM | #2 |
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I didn’t care for baseball and still really don’t since when I was first introduced to it, there wasn’t a cap?? Maybes that’s changed now but I remember how the Yankees were spending like 10x than the Oakland A’s for example so to me it was sortve like why would I watch a sport where there’s just gonna be the same 3-5 winners every year??
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04-28-2024, 07:50 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I agree it was after the baseball strike. My question is why did football not experience the same downturn when they went on strike and played with replacement players?
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04-28-2024, 07:54 AM | #4 |
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I think most fans sided with the players. As they should have. The owners were ****ing the players royally and pocketing the money. For whatever reason, the public in general, blamed both the baseball players and owners.
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04-28-2024, 09:55 AM | #5 | |
Sometimes it's black and white
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My question, how was baseball ever more popular than football in the first place? |
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04-28-2024, 07:58 AM | #6 |
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Definitely 1994 for me. I was 10 years old and baseball was my life. I was basically one of the kids from the movie The Sandlot. I lived, breathed and slept baseball. Football was my fall sport and I loved it, but not like baseball. Then the strike, and as a 10 year old having the situation explained to me, I couldn’t even grasp it. It was a gut punch.
Didn’t really recover for a good 10 years, completely lost interest except for somewhat following how the Braves were doing. The past 5-6 as I have gotten older and my sons are both in travel ball, I’ve rediscovered my love for it but it will never surpass football now. Think there are many dudes who have this exact same story I’m sure. |
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04-28-2024, 08:40 AM | #7 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Kansas
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Like some people have said, I bet the numbers reflect it happening a long time ago but from an optics standpoint, the strike put baseball in a noose and the steroid scandal post 98 pulled the lever.
I am very curious to see what happens over the next 20 years or so. As older folks die out, who is gonna pick up that slack for MLB fan-ship? The one saving grace is that there is literally nothing going on outside of baseball over the summer. |
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04-28-2024, 08:46 AM | #8 |
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I'd have to drink an unhealthy amount of booze to sit through a baseball game.
I can watch any level of football game anywhere, anytime. |
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04-29-2024, 08:02 PM | #9 |
It was not a fair catch
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04-28-2024, 09:05 AM | #10 |
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That period with the MLB strike and the Cowboys dynasty seems about right to me.
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04-28-2024, 09:13 AM | #11 | |
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One of the keys to the the NFL dominance is its good for TV but also KC, Green Bay etc. have just as good of a chance as the large metro areas have to win. |
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04-28-2024, 09:31 AM | #12 | |
You're CARICATURES, ALL of you
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This would help the lower revenue teams, i.e. KC Royals from being nothing more than an extended farm league for the high revenue teams. |
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04-28-2024, 10:08 AM | #13 | |
Sometimes it's black and white
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For decades, the big stars left for big markets as soon as they could to put together teams. Okay LeBron went back to Cleveland after Miami but whatever. And Toronto went all in one year and it worked out. But now a number of small or at least, not traditional big NBA teams, are in the mix. |
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04-28-2024, 09:08 AM | #14 |
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For me it was 89/90 when Marty arrived. That’s when KC became a football town almost overnight.
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04-29-2024, 01:05 PM | #15 |
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