MLB is a lot more susceptible to fan pressure because individual team revenue is more dependent on gate receipts than most leagues.
MLB lacks big money from national broadcast deals. Baseball is a very regional sport with no national audience for anyone except the Yankees. Their once venerated TV institutions of Sunday & Monday Night Baseball along with the World Series, are completely dead from a ratings perspective.
MLB was an early adopter to the online streaming gig for live sports, but they went and sold their proprietary platform to stream their games to Disney for a one-time payout to all the teams.
Teams to this point have been coasting along by signing unsustainable mega local broadcast deals with cable companies, but those days have ended. Sinclair, who bought the rights to numerous teams, has defaulted on their deal and has simply stopped paying the bills.
There is some revenue sharing with the poorer teams, but the bigger markets are banned from receiving central relief funds.
So this leaves gate revenue as a major source of revenue for most teams. They will feel it directly it there is not enough butts in seats for 81 games a year.
The main problem is that normies and NPCs love their sportsball.
MLB is a lot more susceptible to fan pressure because individual team revenue is more dependent on gate receipts than most leagues.
MLB lacks big money from national broadcast deals. Baseball is a very regional sport with no national audience for anyone except the Yankees. Their once venerated TV institutions of Sunday & Monday Night Baseball along with the World Series, are completely dead from a ratings perspective.
MLB was an early adopter to the online streaming gig for live sports, but they went and sold their proprietary platform to stream their games to Disney for a one-time payout to all the teams.
Teams to this point have been coasting along by signing unsustainable mega local broadcast deals with cable companies, but those days have ended. Sinclair, who bought the rights to numerous teams, has defaulted on their deal and has simply stopped paying the bills.
There is some revenue sharing with the poorer teams, but the bigger markets are banned from receiving central relief funds.
So this leaves gate revenue as a major source of revenue for most teams. They will feel it directly it there is not enough butts in seats for 81 games a year.
The main problem is that normies and NPCs love their sportsball.