The Reason Major League Baseball Isn't Popular Anymore
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The Reason Major League Baseball Isn't Popular Anymore
In today’s video I want to answer the question what killed the popularity of Major League Baseball?
I don’t just mean attendance, or television ratings, I mean overall relevance. For a game that was at one time rated the most popular sport in America.
The reason why people don't know the name Shohei Ohtani, but everyone has heard of Babe Ruth...
What made baseball popular in the first place?
When was the peak of popularity?
When and why did it lose popularity?
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When you watch the Ken Burns documentary they were saying back in the 70s that football had taken over as the national pastime.
I've been preaching this EXACT same thing for ages... MLB is SOOO behind technology and marketing...
The NHL as well
Too difficult to watch on TV. Behind paywalls. And I can’t watch my local teams. I’m blacked out.
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@@eliasmolina4635crashes
One thing MLB did right was to embrace TH-camrs fairly quickly. There were a couple of years when they didn't allow TH-camrs to show game play. But if you read the comments section of your favorite baseball TH-camrs, guys say how those channels got them back into watching baseball. Jomboy, baseball doesn't exist, foolish baseball, urinating tree, and even Zack Hample are all excellent embassadors of the sport.
I'm sure there are MANY things at play why baseball isn't as popular....but for me personally....I was born and raised in Chicago....I grew up watching the Cubs either on FREE TV (WGN) or going to Wrigley to see a game for $3-5 for tickets right above the dugout $1.50 for bleachers...NOW....unless I PAY $20/month for Marquee Network to watch them on TV....or PAY $64 for those bleacher seats..or $130 for those seats by the dugout (those prices can be higher depending on opponent)......I'm not going to a game either....so yeah, me finally getting to see my Cubs win the World Series in 2016 unfortunately resulted in me being "priced out" of being the die-hard fan I once was.
Me too we were born and lived in the right era.
@@billtate6962 I haven't seen A game on tv for years , and I'm a big baseball fan. I grew up with all games on free tv and will never pay. My pocketbook is limited. Now I can't see them unless I suscribe.
The difference in baseball popularity from the '80s until now is staggering! When I was a kid, it was quite common for neighborhood kids to get together and play baseball at the park, or any available patch of grass. I never EVER see kids doing that anymore. Sure, kids still play baseball. But, only in an organized team fashion. Kinda sad, honestly.
Stickball was a daily event in my neighborhood when I was growing up as I lived in a cul-da-sac. All we needed were 4 players as you could play 2 on 2 (pitcher and OF). I haven’t seen kids play stickball on a street in 20 years
Traveling teams killed our local Little League.
I don't think anyone cared about the LeBron spacejam movie
Not even his own family did
They make it too expensive to watch the local team on TV. They need to have a nationally televised game on local TV every night if they're going to continue blackouts
I use to love baseball in the 90s and 2000s, but since about 2007 I have completely lost interest in the game. And I really don't think baseball can do anything to win me back. Nobody wants to admit it, but what made baseball great were American born players who grew up in the culture and were relatable to a certain degree.
It’s also the rule changes and style of play. This current version of MLB is unwatchable. In 2007 the game was way different (better) than it is today.
Blame the NBA and the NFL
Also, people will be scared to say this, but the MLB being so reliant on international players has hurt the sport. Unlike soccer which has leagues that compete with each other in size, the MLB is a monolith in the sport of baseball. When 30% of your athletes are not from America, we cannot expect them to know what American viewers want to see. A lot of these guys don't want to be Lebron. There is a disconnect between their culture and ours in how we view athletes. This isn't even getting into so many players not knowing english.
I'm not saying we shouldn't allow foreign players to compete, obviously, but the connection between the english speaking American fanbase and the spanish speaking Carribean players isn't good
This is just fully incorrect. Many of the games most exciting players are Latin born. If you ask a kid who his favorite baseball player is there is a great chance they’ll say Tatis, Soto, Vlad Jr not only because they’re the guys putting up crazy numbers but they’re the ones bat flipping and doing awesome celebrations brining more eyes to the game. And the whole language barrier thing is absolute bullshit. Out side of soccer and maybe cricket baseball is the most popular sport globally so having the best international players play in the best league only makes sense. Ohtani who doesn’t speak English well and uses a translator is easily the most popular baseball player not only in the US, but in the world. The only morons who think him not speaking English fluently is an issue are you and Stephen A Smith.
@@rrameir you're not going to get a Lebron James like player out of the Carribean. These guys don't want to be like that. Tatis and Vlad are exceptions since their fathers were players and they grew up in the public eye. Ohtani gets commercials and airtime, but he'll never appear on ESPN, movies, TV, or anything he isn't really forced into being on
Soccer = Baseball's kryptonite
You’re correct. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or ethnicity but it does have to do with marketing a player that doesn’t speak English. When a player doesn’t speak English, it’s hard to have those post game sound bites or connections with fans. Of course there’s Acuña & Ohtani but even Acuña isn’t a household name outside of baseball fans. Everyone knows Judge & Harper, regardless if they saw them play.
I blame MLB for their child labor camps aka baseball academies. The US, Canada & PR could never have the same practices because it’s illegal, so why are we okay with it in the DR?! From the corrupt scouting, no healthcare, no education, no English classes & little to no money!! Kids are as young as 5 years old working 10-16 hour days!! You think Tatis’ parents would allow that?! Not at all!
Youth baseball has become so expensive for the average household. Travel ball has hurt middle & poor class families. There’s sponsorships but it’s still not enough.
The lack of black Americans in MLB is another reason the sport doesn’t get enough attraction. You see NFL players that were drafted in both leagues but chose NFL because they don’t have to wait around in the minors.
Lastly, entertainment. There needs to be more entertainment during the World Series (ex: 2009 World Series, Jayz & Alicia Keys) Push ESPN & other sports shows to push more baseball talk. The Braves v Phillies NLDS got some good coverage but not enough.
@rrameir
Baseball fans don’t mind the language barrier but it does hurt the player in marketing abilities. Ohtani is obviously an outlier. When De La Cruz said he was learning English so he could connect to his fans better, people loved it because it made him more endearing. Same can be said for the Montreal Expos team. A couple of players made a strong effort to learn French & they were loved.
Bat flips? They’re fun, I guess but Ricky Henderson stealing bases & did it with swag was just as much gun. Fighting is the same.
I don’t think players NEED to speak English but it does help the player. Most people won’t admit it but it also helps connect fan engagement & locker room leadership.
When I was younger in the Allstars game. Ted Williams Micky mantle , Hank Aarom. WILLIE Mays Stan Musial. And so on. All I know now is Aato Judge and Otanie
To put it simply when you have teams stacking the deck and putting all the best players on the same handful of teams, it helps to kill the popularity of the sport
It’s not fun to watch a sport when all the best players play on one of the coasts and all the small market teams get screwed
As a person who was a HUGE baseball fan in the 70s and 80s and am now totally indifferent to it, this take is spot on.
Modern sabermetrics style baseball is boring AF, put a more exciting product on the field thats the first step.
I’ve got a few years on you I think , but when I was growing up in New York in the 70s and 80s, i grew up in a baseball family . We followed the Yankees religiously . My mom grew up in the Bronx. My grandfather was at Lou Gehrigs farewell address . You could easily watch a game on tv from a local tv station for free. If not we were listening to games on the radio , which , if you were a real baseball fan was more enjoyable , because you could do other things at home or drive in the car and still get a game experience . Many of us , like I said grew up with baseball in our lives , whether we watched the game, played in little league , played out in the street or in the backyard . We played all kinds of modified baseball games because there were other kids in the neighborhood that played baseball also. It was in our lives more. Then in the late 90s it was great being a Yankees fan because we had not just Jeter, but a great core of players that we followed every game. They became like a family. I don’t think you get that anymore. There was more passion for our professional teams. Maybe because people stayed closer to the area they grew up in more. Even other kids that were Mets fans were so because their family hated the Yankees . It created a lot of drama and passion . Statistics were easier to follow. It was basically batting average , HR , RBI, W-L and ERA. You could argue with your friends and relatives who was the better player. Now it’s just to complicated . In many of the east coast cities including Chicago, there were deep seeded loyalties to your team in the town you grew up in that went back generations . So your points are very valid but i would add in that ironically , you had more access to the game back then and it was around us more than it is now. Also, young kids aren’t going to the park and playing ball all day (think Sandlot) , or playing in their backyards . The passion to play and the passion for your local team just isn’t there as much anymore . Same thing is with music , of all things . In my house there was always a radio on that we all listened to at once . So we got to know the songs of our favorite bands and other kinds of music .
10:26 says "players are fiery and competitive" and then shows Anthony Rendon
Anthony Rendon is certainly FIERY....but is NOT competitive....he has made it VERY clear in recent interviews....he's there for the paycheck....he could care LESS if the team wins or loses.
8:44 Well that certainly didn't age well. With the pitch clock being added, average game time has been reduced to around 2 hours and 30 minutes and it's a no brainer that'll be the average time for playoff games too going forward.
Edit: 9:06 Oh you're one of those people that think high scoring always means it's a good product....
Most fans of any sport don't tend to like low scoring games, much less if they are too long
A few people touched on this is the comments section, but despite all the cable & streaming of baseball, it simply is not as accessible as it used to be when local games were broadcast on local free TV, and even nationally televised games were more prevalent, like the Saturday Game of the Week. I also have to ask, do people really like the expanded playoffs and wild card teams, with the post-season going into November? It waters down the importance of the 162-game season and brings a lot of mediocrity into the post-season. What does a pennant race really matter when nearly half of all the teams get into post-season???
9:44 Should watch individual competitions if you want more individual personalities, like individual gymnastics competitions, golf, swimming, track & field, archery, shooting, individual tennis matches, etc. Oh, wait, those are also olympic sports.
Shohei Ohtani is a great player and seems like a great guy, but lacks personality and charisma, and you can’t really blame the guy, he just wants to play baseball and not have the spotlight Steph Curry and Patrick Mahomes have. Now Lionel Messi and Caitlin Clark are more recognizable and popular to the average American than any MLB player. The last MLB superstar was Derek Jeter which has been retired for almost ten years and nobody has really filled that gap since.
Mookie Betts and Aaron Judge would be great marketing candidates since they play in large markets and for MLB’s premier teams.
Baseball will never be the most popular sport. It’s a great radio sport. It’s a great sport to watch at the bar with five different games on.
Baseball is leisurely. It requires patience. Social media and the internet at large have made it nearly impossible for most people to mentally focus and watch a game of baseball. I went to a game last week and they were actually now showing videos on the "Jumbotron" IN BETWEEN EACH PITCH, because the average person will lose focus on the game if they just are required to sit and wait for a 10 pitch at bat to end in some action. There is no way to make baseball palatable to the modern, rewired brain.
1 out of every 160 people on Earth follow Steph Curry on Twitter. That's pretty crazy. I don't even have a Twitter
And nobody watches his games
1 in 11 people on earth follow Cristiano Ronaldo
I think the World Baseball Classic is changing the culture of baseball. You can’t help noticing how relaxed the players are during a Puerto Rico- Dominican Republic game
One word: football.
i agree 100% players like lionel messi cristiano ronaldo and teams like real madrid barcelona have put a ding on baseball's armor
Failed to mention the AFL-NFL merger and the Superbowl
@@starlinpena4943why would you mention soccer when he’s talking about football?
He’s talking about football, the sport the uses their feet to kick a ball around and score.
@@starlinpena4943The fact that Messi is far more popular than any current MLB player.
I'm from Honduras and have no clue about Baseball, i worked in Texas for 2 years. As soon as i found out, there was a honduran player playing for the Houston Astros, i went and got my ticket for the next game. So, i think this is one of the issues with this sport. It's cool that they keep it traditional, but i they want to attrack people, they should do what others sports do. Or die with the boots on. HeckI even started asking and learning about baseball rules, so i could understand better and enjoy it more.
I loved and played baseball all throughout my youth, started watching basketball and realized how slow and boring this sport is (i still watch historical baseball games but I really can’t stay watching current ones)
Great video man
Appreciate that coming from you!
FREE T.V..ALL GAMES WERE ON AND TICKETS WERE CHEAP , EVERYONE COULD ATTEND .THEY ALSO HAD LOTS OF FREE WAYS TO ATTEND PLUS MANY OTHER PROMOTIONS. LADIES DAY , THEY FREE, GOOD SCHOOL GRADES , FREE TICKETS , DOUBLE HEADERS , FATHER SON GAME , OLD TIMERS GAME. THESE LAST 2 WERE PLAYED BETWEEN DOUBLE HEADERS
There was never a time when all games were on free TV, except possibly the Cubs. Most teams had every game televised starting in the early 2000's because of regional sports networks--on cable.
@@JayTemple OH YES THEY WERE, ALL FREE. WE AND MANY OTHER NORTHERN CITIES DIDNT HAVE CABLE TELEVISION. THE WHITE SOX AND CUBS BROADCAST ALL THEIR GAMES , 163, FROM 1972- 1982..AND TICKETS WERE $1.75 BLEACHERS AT WRIGLEY AND $2.00 ALL OUTFIELD SEATS AT COMISKEY. THIS IS FACT.
@@JayTemple you were born in the wrong era. The baby boomers saw and lived all that. Are entertainment wasn't expensive, we didn't have unlimited tv , music, but spent more time participating with others. This all went away gradually in the mid1980's with videos, etcetera
@@JayTemple post 1977 free agency changed the dynamics of the game with all salaries skyrocketing to infinity today. Before everything was cheap or reasonable. They had many promotions, 2 games for 1 price, doubleheaders. I dont know why fans keep cheering the players , when you can just afford attending fewer games
All sports have been getting monetized to oblivion for 3-4 decades, but it does hurt sports like baseball more, since it is a slower, more lived in, "day at the park" experience.
They show more european soccer on national tv then baseball
Since when?
@@lovesgucci1 since like 2018
@@trollpolice Never seen it. That’s also baseball & basketball’s problem - blackouts!!
Messi is more popular to the average American than Shohei Ohtani
A list of reasons
-Lack of Black American players/intrest
-Salary Cap System
-Destroying there 1998 season the steroid season that actually brought it back
-Internet
- Baseball is a slow sport (I used to work at a couple of stadiums)
-Marketing
-NFL, NBA, NHL, Soccer, hell even track and field
-Social Media
- Old school frame of mindset
Why do you say that Internet and social media has destroyed baseball?
@@richardp8429 I can answer that. I watch the D-backs MLB highlight reel on TH-cam that lasts 8-10 minutes. They are not on free tv in the phoenix market.
@@richardp8429rather, the lack of taking advantage of internet/social media to promote charismatic stars, outside of maybe fantasy baseball which only caters to stats nerds and gamblers anyway.
Strike of '94 turned MLB into buy-a-pennant.
@@richardp8429 The internet and social media means it's a lot more things to do now. It's a lot more options.
Baseball is thriving globally. Japan Korea Taiwan Dominican Republic Venezuela Panama Cuba Colombia.
A few in Asia say simply that the Americans just don't have the attention span or patience for it anymore.
I think it's marketing. Americans need marketing
Seriously. Right now Aaron Judge on track to hit 60plus home runs(again!). If I was in the MLB home office, I would be plastering Judge's face on everything. Seth Lugo(probably the scariest pitcher the AL) would be plastered around. Manfred did the sport a disservice by stepping back from marketing.
MLB is aware about their decline that they are deciding to focus on international markets
Agree to some degree, altho even then (except for the Caribbean nations) most people have other pastimes too. Heck even Venezuela and Colombia specially have very popular soccer teams. But yeah it is about marketing, specially when gridiron football, basketball, and even "soccer" are more marketable.
No. Social media is what has taken away a lot of the enjoyment for fans in all sports. It has caused way too many unneeded distractions and shifted the focus from fans' favorite teams winning on the field to irrelevant things about players' lives off the field.
Kind of true, but it's what the people think they want, to the detriment of the hardcore traditional fans.
I wiuld say another big issue is the neutering of so many minor league teams.
Having more baseball teams around makes it easier to make peiple fans.
True somewhat, however more attention needs to be paid to them, similarly to how ncaa football is paid attention to as the defacto nfl feeder league while also being popular on its own
Baseball isn’t popular because “I can sit at home on tik tok all day”.. got it 👍🏻
The average MLB fan is in their 50's. That right there tells you all you need to know.
This video is awesome! Great job 👏🏻 and also thanks for mentioning women’s baseball- I feel like it’s not talked about at all!
Thank you!
I would love if max muncy would call out manny machado they actually have a rivalry be more fun like jose Fernandez could have change the game RIP
I feel like star players spend a lot more time watching videos, analytics, and practicing now than they did in the 90s. No time for making movies I think. As for as known stars, I am not sure the NBA has done as great as you make them out.
In the 90s, most people knew who Michel Jordan, Charles Barkley, Shaqueel O'Neal, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson where. If you mildly likes sports, you also knew who Scotty Pippin and Patrick Ewing were as well. NBA? OK, most know LeBron James, maybe Seth Curry, but who else? I think there is some Zion person.
Just because they do better analytics doesn't make then more entertaining.
Also social media would disagree with your 2nd paragraph.
Baseball is still very popular. For all the NBA love you gave the WS and NBA Finals have similar ratings. It definitely has it's flaws but it's also still my favorite game. One thing American's don't seem to understand is how popular it is outside the country. The sport continues to grow worldwide. The goodwill games final had Colombia vs Brazil. I bet most American's don't understand the significance of that.
Yeah but basketball used to be 3rd in popularity, now the fact that baseball has to compete to not be beneath basketball and not fall to hockey levels says it all.
True somewhat about the bigger international focus, however in south america maybe like 5% of people care about baseball, if colombia and brazil teams are doing better that rather shows the decline of the sport in its american homeland.
@carlosnn8150 Baseball is definitely not as popular in the US but it's growing a lot in other regions. Each country in S America is different. In Venezuela Baseball is the most popular sport. Baseball is growing in Colombia. And it's starting to catch on in Brazil which is huge. I'm from Mexico and I can tell you it's growing a lot all over the country. The WBC was watched by 80 million worldwide. That's more than any sport or game in the US except the Super Bowl.
The new rules seems to be helping them a little bit. What would help their situation even further is making TV broadcasts in better reach (hint: eliminate blackouts!)
Hunter Pence was in an episode of “Fuller House”.
Lmao
One of MLB’s problems is analytics, if we went back to the rules and regulations of 20 yrs ago the game would be fine. Allow pitchers to pitch full games. Too much safety.
Make baseball great again🙏🙏🙏
Biggest problem you didn’t mention was Last 10 years “Superstar” level players were boring guys (Mike Trout just isn’t naturally Charismatic enough, Clayton Kershaw very Vanilla person, A Pujols and J Votto were just great fundamental hitters)
It’s similar to Tim Duncan vs Iverson and Kobe in NBA , Iverson helped growth of NBA a lot more then Duncan ever did
Astors should be new evil empire (Similar to Pats after they got caught cheating) huge missed opportunity, Tatis was being built to be future mega star injury prone and then got caught dirty,
Personally believe MLB having same problem pro wrestling is once you see big massive dude destroy stuff, generic freak doing the impossible, it’s hard to go back to normal looking people doing the same (it’s why WNBA Ratings are so bad)
Mookie is the only player that checks the box of being a star and charismatic. But unfortunately one man cant carry a sport by himself-even if he has one of the greatest pitchers next to him, and the second coming of Babe Ruth.
Ironically WNBA is getting more publicity on ESPN than MLB. You hear more about Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese than Shohei Ohtani
Yeah, that's what's wrong with baseball: players don't hate on each other enough.
Baseball first began to lose popularity to football in the 1950s, because baseball was slow to adopt TV compared to the NFL and college football who were fast adopters of TV. If you think baseball has a problem marketing and pushing the players' personalities just look at hockey. The average American would probably know a team worth (9 players) of MLB players while they would struggle to name 6 hockey players (1 hockey team on the ice) in the NHL.
Agreed, but as you can see, baseball is declining to hockey levels
Regional blackouts
Baseball is boring
Did you really take the time to watch this video and sit down to write a comment just to say baseball is boring?
I hate how in mlb, players change teams more than they do underwear
I find npb much better to follow, you can "relate" with the stars because people don't change teams that often
Amateur baseball is big there so you often follow a player from high school and follow their journey. Top picks in npb are a big deal but in mlb it will take years for them to even have a cup of coffee in mlb if they even make it that far
In npb a college pick is expected to contribute right away
I also found with the steroid era or a result of it, i tend to think "is he on PEDs?"
I also hate how in mlb people expect emotionless robots yet ironically in japan its perfectly fine to show emotion and you are not drilled for it.
Last but not least npb, kbo fans are a million times better than mlb ones
I think people are finally realizing how boring baseball is compared to literally everything else the world has to offer. Someone tried to give me free tickets, I said no thanks I have laundry to do.
The Japanese disagree with you
@@paulwilliams2024 the Japanese also watch weird cartoons into adulthood and are declining demographically
Everybody act like the lack of black players isn't the main reason MLB isn't popular anymore,,well it is,,I promise
More like Black American players. There are a lot of Black caribbean players though.
@@selfmadesm2068What do you think changed for black American players? These days, most teams have less than 3 black American players.
It definitely is and the fix isn’t as hard as people think, we gotta make travel teams less expensive. There’s a team where I live that’s not that expensive and the roster is majority black, We need more of that
It’s a BIG reason!
@selfmadesm2068
Black AMERICAN. You sound like MLB executives in thinking they’re both the same!
Sorry but Baseball is not Football it never will be again…but the NBA is a mess…nobody watches the NBA…Baseball ratings are still comparable to the NBA. What baseball needs is the big markets to perform. It’s biggest star isn’t a player it’s a team. It’s the New York Yankees. Everyone knows who they are go anywhere in the country and the world you will see the interlocking NY. This Yankee team is for real, put them in the World Series you will see ratings. Ratings the NBA can’t touch. Baseball is still the second most popular sport in the country. It’s not without problems but it flourishes when its biggest Star does and that’s the Yanks.
The 90s was popular not because of steroids it was the Yanks. They were in the fall classic every year and everyone watched.
I’m in favor of never letting the drug addicts in the hall of fame. If you want to celebrate them, build your own hall of fame just for them. But their records should never be compared to the guys who did it clean.
So why is European soccer so popular? While they have "Financial Fair Play" and "Sustainability" limits (to discourage deficit spending on payroll and/or operations), they do not have salary caps and there are huge payroll gaps.
Idk why it's popular there, but I know why it isn't popular here. They allow championship-level games to end in a 0-0 tie.
@@JayTemple and even then, it's climbing up the ranks, more US school age kids play soccer than baseball, it's simply more dynamic (specially for tv) to watch guys trying to drift past the other to kick a ball into a net than waiting for a guy to hit a ball with a stick for hours. Plus there's rivalries, standout celebrity players, flag/chant culture, somewhat easy rules to follow, flashy displays of skill, regional/local attachment (teams in many cases are clubs which fans can be members of, and moving to another city barely ever happens, it's been a major scandal when it does happen). Other american sports like gridiron football and basketball are better competition to association football aka soccer, quite frankly. Baseball is for a declining white suburban accountant stats-obsessed audience, and even those also watch the other sports mentioned plus also hockey (which just needs charismatic stars and marketing to compete, altho on the other hand it is too expensive to play and rules could be easier to follow). Baseball could do better tho, be more affordable, have better marketing, more charismatic celebrity players, some rule changes to make games more offensive, etc., at least so it would stay alive in the top 4-5.
Even soccer fans agree that is a problem, that is why some say soccer is starting to go from prime sport to prime entertainment, which is perhaps masking the beginning of a decline, as more and more european clubs have to import players from poorer countries that dont have much else to do to overpay them, meanwhile local kids become ever more detached from soccer and overall from sports
@@JayTemple A 0-0 game can be a nailbiter of a game. If it's dynamic and there's real offensive threat.
Because the concept of soccer is very simple, you need very little equipment and it's a dynamic non-stop action sport.
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Fax bro!
My tax dollars go to build progressive Field and maintain it
But about 25 or 30 years ago they took the games off TV
So now poor people don't get to watch it and as such a family gatherings were poor people meet with their middle-class family and in some cases Rich family members baseball is no longer part of the conversation because not everybody's involved
Baseball took itself out of the culture
Want to bring baseball back
Put it back on network television
Put the guardians on TV for 40 games a year on network TV
You know like the national pastime does
The NFL
PS there's no way any of these cities are ever going to get new stadiums built ever again because of this
Too many players who don't speak english.
I can no longer watch baseball unless I pay for a service so I stopped watching.
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Nah. Nah yo the title of this videos. /
To say when Lionel Messi came to Miami, then in a Marlins game to say Loan Depot Park is empty or to say that only one or two people show up at the baseball game, and then everyone else shows up at a soccer game only to see Messi playing for InterMiami.
To say well MLS surpass the MLB as the number 3 larges league in North America, just saying soccer has lead to probably in Miami to move the Marlins to Montreal of all places.
To say it all Major Leauge Soccer is turning ball park into empty parks during baseball games and soccer is taking over all leagues by storm.
In ten years the NFL wil be number 2 and MLS will be number 1.
So if you where to be president of the USA you might even make soccer illegal in the United States to save baseball.
So nobodu gives a shit about baseball stars anymore and the most popular sport in the USA will be International Football known as Soccer.
Baseball lost its popularity to soccer.
To say it all soccer is Micheal Jordan and baseball is some other basketball player that is all.
No one cares about MLS. The Phillies were in the playoffs during the same time that the local MLS team made the championship & no one in the city knew or cared about it. It’s a small hipster niche.
Miami Marlins have the absolute worst ownership & management!! They would pack that ballpark if they stayed in contention for more than 2 seasons!
😂The next person who I meet and talk soccer with will be the first🥱 please name a MLS Soccer ⭐️ anyone would know besides Messi who is pushing 40 and past his prime🙄 and then name 5 international soccer ⚽️ players who would be recognized by the average North American 🇺🇸🇨🇦
MLS is basically minor leagues or retirement leagues compared to European soccer leagues.
@@phillipowens3612 At least Messi is giving hope to Montreal by giving them the Expos with 2 World Series titles with the Indians and the other with the Yankees.
@@phillipowens3612 true, but the tide is turning, specially as the ethnicities that love baseball the most are declining (save for some Caribbean nations)
Cricket is the greatest most entertaining interesting toughest deadliest and unique sport in the world 🏏☝️
1.5 years later:
Shohei Ohtani is an international icon
WBC was awesome and everyone loved how it ended
The unwritten rules are loosening and players are far more expressive now after hitting homers
The game feels significantly shorter in length now cuz of the pitch clock. Steals have also noticeably gone up which is nice
WE ARE SO BACK 🔥
I grew up watching major league baseball and nba.
but baseball hits me different.
it's a daily sports and literally a part of my life.
Apparently american football is the most poppular sports in america right now.
but I still truly think baseball is the most american sports between all sports in america.
I want a lot of people to know baseball is a great sports!
I’m a huge baseball fan and love the rule changes, but the Rangers/DBacks was the lowest rated World Series ever.
Baseball will always have its loyal local audience, as I live in Philly and the Phillies get 40,000 a game when they’re good. But most of my friends check out of Baseball once the Phillies are eliminated. They just don’t care about the World Series if the Phillies aren’t in it.
That’s the real headline. Baseball is still popular, it’s just lost its appeal to the masses.
I also think a big change is African-Americans don’t play Baseball anymore so you have 12% of the population that doesn’t care about the sport. When I was growing up you had Bonds, Griffey, Doc Gooden, and before my time you had Mays, Aaron, Gibson. All the great African-American athletes come from the NFL and NBA now. You essentially lost a whole generation of a specific race since Michael Jordan that don’t care about Baseball anymore
The number of games I’ve been seeing has been exponentially going up year after year excluding the pandemic years. I think I’m going to at least 10 games this year lol.
Ohtani maybe a global icon, but nowhere near Lionel Messi or Steph Curry.
Even in the US, You hear more about Caitlin Clark than Shohei Ohtani.
@@chrisolivo6591any finals with less than popular teams will suffer, in any sport. agreed on the rest
Base ball is like chess. And the players are so talented. It is not like MMA. Smash. It is not like soccer where people run around tying to score points. Baseball is like no other sport. It requires a team to win. It is like a game of pool. No other sport is like this.
People focus on the wrong things. It isn't the pure number of people who care. That doesn't make you money. A lot of people watch NASCAR. It is about getting the RIGHT type of fans. Baseball has that, and will continue to have that. People who watch football want simple, dumb entertainment. Sure, football is fun to watch when you are waiting to hear news about MLB free agency, and more people watch than watch MLB, but that is my point. Baseball fans understand analytics. Baseball fans don't need entertainment to be like an infant with keys jingling in their faces. The Dodgers can pay Shohei $70M per-year, because they have the right type of fans. A ton of people watch WWE, but you don't want those type of people as customers. It turns off valuable customers. Baseball is doing the right thing. Frankly, I would get rid of some of the new rules that are focused on the trailer park crowd. Make it the thinking person's game again, and challenge people to call it boring and expose themselves for being stupid.
So make it even more elitist and nerdy and have it compete with golf or tennis then, lol got it. Heck even those sports, and f1 racing as well, do better at catering to the elite.
Funny enough, Nascar is trying to abandon the "trailer park crowd" and losing steam in the process... same for WWE, trying to attract the pure rasslin crowd and becoming niche, instead of pumping out celebrities...
The MLB needs the steroids era back .i remember Sammy sofa vs mark McGuire then Barry Bonds
Traditional North American🇺🇸🇨🇦Sports 🏈🏀⚾️🏒 all suffer because the World is getting smaller people interests are being divided🙄 European Sports⚽️🏉🏏 will suffer the same fate as they get exposure too more sports as well🥱
To some degree yes, however some are coping better than others, some are increasing their reach more than others. Tbh i think in general sports is declining, as top leagues overpay foreign stars from the gutter of countries, while the local kids increasingly play less outside (and when they do, they usually stick to one popular sport in their region/city, as most people aren't good at multiple sports, much less so the ones that take more effort/money - the latter helps soccer the most, just need a ball and some rocks to make a couple goals, all other sports are more needy of equipment in varying degrees)