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Originally Posted by chaddurbin
modern card buyers are not collectors, they are amateur day-traders. everything they have is for sale at a moment's notice, they don't focus on anything besides the hottest prospect of the week or base their whole buying/selling around the release of the top 100 list, awards ceremony...and which teams are still in it.
baseball is an old man's audience...i'm tired of all the heart pain, acid reflux, and penis problem ads aimed at middle-aged white men. baseball is doing nothing to bring in the younger viewers. with the slow death of football i'm hoping that'd bring more athletes to start playing baseball again.
the "card hobby is dying" cry has been around forever true, but let's see in 20-30 years when today's teens grow older if they even know what "baseball" and "card collecting" is...
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I have to disagree with you on this. I'll agree that there are many modern collectors only in it for the flip, but there wouldn't be a point to investing in Bowman draft if there aren't collectors one the other end to pay the inflated prices when the kids get the call-up.
Baseball is still popular. Football has supplanted it as most popular sport in America, but the sport still carries weight across the nation especially in the local markets. On top of that the sport has had the greatest influx of young and marketable talent since the early 1950's. Trout, Harper, Bryant, Stanton, Posey, Kershaw, Bumgarner, DeGrom, the list goes on and on. Yankees/Red Sox still gets the Duke/UNC treatment on ESPN. The Cubs will be relevant for the next decade. Talented foreign stars enter the league on a yearly basis. The sport is fine IMO.