>It could be that “the type of baseball being played now isn’t as popular” it could be “the sport of baseball isn’t as popular with today’s demographics” or sim

>It could be that “the type of baseball being played now isn’t as popular” it could be “the sport of baseball isn’t as popular with today’s demographics” or simply “other sports have eaten baseball’s lunch” but as the stat nerds love to say, we have no idea Given that more than 40,000,000 people attended an MLB game in person[0] last season and millions more attended minor league[1] games (not to mention the independent leagues), I think reports of baseball's imminent doom are greatly exaggerated. It is true that TV viewership of MLB games has dropped significantly[2], but that's more a function of cord cutting rather than lack of interest, IMHO. And there are big problems[3] with broadcasting/streaming MLB games. There is MLB.tv, but most teams force MLB.tv to black out games played by area, (e.g. NY Yankee games are unavailable on that streaming service in the NY Metro area, etc.), as they get most of their revenue from media deals and that cuts into the teams' profits. In fact, I've resisted cutting the cord (and it pisses me off to no end!) because I can't even pay to see my team on a streaming service. 130 (of 162 per season) of their games are only on local cable in my area. I'd happily pay $200 a season to stream all my team's games -- and end up saving money by cutting the cord. [0] https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-misc.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-misc.... [1] https://www.milb.com/ https://www.milb.com/ [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2021/08/06/mlb-seeing-local-tv-households-decline-dramatically-compared-to-last-full-season/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2021/08/06/mlb-seein... [3] https://theathletic.com/4409306/2023/04/14/mlb-streaming-tv-blackouts/ https://theathletic.com/4409306/2023/04/14/mlb-streaming-tv-... Edit: Fixed prose to actually make sense.