MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

Again, you are asking players and owners to cut revenues in half, but sure, you are being realistic.

 

Maybe.

But scarcity generally makes a thing more valuable rather than less valuable.

 

Old enough to remember it, but I was still in high school.

Pittsburgh / Baltimore.

 

The only game of the World Series I couldn't watch because I had to be on the school bus at 5:30 a.m. Boca Raton Junior High was so overcrowded, we were on double sessions, so I got home at 11:45 a.m. every day. That was pretty cool back then.

 

I’m sure local broadcasts who pay through the roof for those rights would agree.

 

If, by cutting the number of games played in half, each game broadcast became twice as valuable, yes, they would.

 

You really live in some alternate universe. Enjoy.

 

I don't think fan exhaustion is the problem, because I don't think the die-hards who would actually watch 162 games are the problem. They are sticking with it. It is the casual fans that baseball needs to capture and hold, and cutting the regular season down isn't going to help with them.

 

The Willie Mays documentary on HBO Max was good. It probably was a tad long, and a bit basic at times for hardcore fans, but I learned stuff I didn't know. They had good interviews with Willie's 1970s Giants teammates such as Orlando Cepeda and Tito Fuentes. Barry Bonds spoke a lot about his reverence for Mays and the impact he had on his life.

 

Dude, TV people are not paying more for less. Money they pay is based on advertising dollars they stand to make. You can't just expect them to see ad shares cut in half and think they will pony up even more money. So yeah you pass costs to advertisers. Advertisers are not shilling out double or more to have half as much exposure. Not happening.

 

Usually “Let’s fix baseball” is a February topic on sports talk radio, not November.

 

Usually more people give a shit about baseball's premier event, I suppose.