Younger fans a parallel to what we're seeing in younger collectors?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

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5. GAMBLING - from full season fantasy leagues to traditional sports betting to one day fantasy or prop betting and the fact that the even the casual viewing public is being beaten over the head with gambling advertising, more young people have, mistakenly, seen baseball as a path to riches with no labor.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

they missed:

5. GAMBLING - from full season fantasy leagues to traditional sports betting to one day fantasy or prop betting and the fact that the even the casual viewing public is being beaten over the head with gambling advertising, more young people have, mistakenly, seen baseball as a path to riches with no labor.

+100% the corporate embracing of gambling on sports will ruin many lives. Well done Manfred.

[Snapolit1]

Gambling seems like a societal issue. But sure blame Manfred for it. All the other major sports leagues have shunned it, right? NFL? NBA?

[scooter729]

I coach Little League near Boston, and our league received cases of 2024 Topps this year (for the first time), directly from Topps. Every coach was given enough packs to distribute a pack to each player.

It was fun to watch the excitement among all of the kids as they opened the packs, shared cards with friends, etc.

I don't know how widespread this effort was by Topps to get cards directly into the hands of kids, but it was very well-received among the kids I saw that got them!

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Well done Manfred.

Manfred works at the behest of his corporate masters, he as about as much power to make decisions to the overall workings of MLB as any of us do, he gets paid the big bucks to be the face of the blame.