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04-28-2024, 08:23 AM | #1 | |
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Haven't watched a game since except for the Royals world series. I understand it's a business but I'm a customer and I don't have to watch. Before anyone says "don't bitch, show them with your wallet"....that's what I did. I'd like to try again but can't seem to give a **** anymore. I have Patty in my life. **** baseball |
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04-28-2024, 09:34 AM | #2 |
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This is it. It was a different time. I remember how pissed my dad was about it. Nowadays ppl would blame the owners.
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04-28-2024, 09:37 AM | #3 | |
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It's almost automatic for me anymore. I'm on the players side to get as much as they can. **** the owners. |
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04-28-2024, 04:09 AM | #4 |
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04-28-2024, 04:37 AM | #5 |
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Late 90s for me.
The internet helped me follow my team, the Kansas City Chiefs and get the NFL news. I remember getting with a group of Chiefs fans on AOL, so new and different at the time. At roughly the same time MLB hooked up with cable making it harder to get Royals games out of market IIRC. |
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04-28-2024, 04:57 AM | #6 |
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Early 90’s
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04-28-2024, 06:08 AM | #7 |
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Once MLB got all the mega TV contracts for just a few teams and only a few teams win every year for the last 30+ years.
There is no hope in MLB for 90% of the teams.
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04-28-2024, 06:30 AM | #8 | |
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Also the way baseball is structured there is no incentive to be competitive. Everyone always talks about how there is no cap, but there being no salary minimum is just as bad. So many teams spend the bare minimum and still make a profit. |
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04-28-2024, 07:40 AM | #9 | |
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They've done everything they can over the past 30+ years to suffocate the fan support. |
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04-28-2024, 01:31 PM | #10 | |
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04-28-2024, 01:53 PM | #11 |
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Nothing better than the radio and a patio on a summer evening. I grew up on Buddy Blattner/Denny Matthews and then Fred White and Denny Matthews on radio. Al Wisk and Denny Trease on TV when it was long before these MLB cable **** ups.
Then they hired Bob Davis and he was just kinda okay but also kinda terrible. Still the #1 game in my heart. I lived and breathed it as a kid. Watched all those episodes of This Week In Baseball with the show's theme music on my phone during the season. |
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04-28-2024, 09:49 AM | #12 |
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I wouldn't say there's no hope, but very little. But the sad reality is that even if a small market team catches lightning in a bottle and wins, like the 2014-2015 Royals, they'll immediately get gutted by the big money teams.
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04-28-2024, 06:38 AM | #13 |
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Baseball is a sport made for radio. That generation is gone
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04-28-2024, 07:36 AM | #14 |
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Wellll my son is a 6th generation fan of the Cardinals. So for at least one more generation, our family has baseball fans.
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04-28-2024, 07:13 AM | #15 |
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Don’t overlook the role fantasy football has played in the popularity of the NFL. It’s been around for way longer, but it really started gaining traction in the mid-90s.
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