Baseball Is Dying

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Originally Posted by dfletch00

Just sat through about the shortest and one of the longest MLB playoff games in history - Its not dying .... 35,000 fans sat ... and mainly stood for 15 innings yesterday in Cleveland and game time was about 45F and windy...

Many families and more kids than I have ever seen ...and i've seen alot .

Its still fun - enjoy it ... see you next NYY!

(Kudos to my wife! spent her birthday at the game)

Correct.

All one has to do is compare the Yankee average game attendance of 40,000 each of the last few non covid years and they dwarf the attendance numbers in Ruth's and Mantle's Yankee times. They aren't even close.

In the 1960's the Yankees outdrew the New York Rangers by only a few thousand fans a game.

Do the same for the Cubs. Not even a comparison. The NHL was more popular in the 1960's than the Cubs were. The Blackhawks outdrew the Cubs on a per game average.

So if these attendance numbers are considered as "baseball is dying" then what the heck was baseball when Hockey out-drew them? In a coma?

All these reasons given as to reasons of "baseball is dying" have been said for every generation when compared to the previous generation. Nothing new. Just a new generation of older people doing the same thing that was done/said to their own generation when THEY were younger.

It is more of a "get off my lawn' phenomenon than anything else.