I fucking love it. R/baseball is, oddly enough, one of the most cucked boards on reddit. My main has been permabanned there for several years (despite me using alts to post the spicier stuff), and just had another account banned there yesterday. Honestly those people are absolutely insufferable and reading their meltdowns over this made my day.
Now don't get me wrong, while I'm glad they caved and changed it back, even changing it in the first place still means they're cucks who you shouldn't ever give any money to if you can help it.
It's interesting how they don't know what to do with themselves when both sides are at their throat rather than just one, it is gratifying to see them on the backfoot. Really though they should be utterly destroyed as businesses for thinking they can get away with this behaviour for so long.
Agreed but MLB, like a lot of the big sports leagues and media companies, has such a monopolistic stranglehold on their market sector that you need legal action to break them up. Simply "don't consume" won't be enough, even though that's always a good idea.
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.
I fucking love it. R/baseball is, oddly enough, one of the most cucked boards on reddit. My main has been permabanned there for several years (despite me using alts to post the spicier stuff), and just had another account banned there yesterday. Honestly those people are absolutely insufferable and reading their meltdowns over this made my day.
Now don't get me wrong, while I'm glad they caved and changed it back, even changing it in the first place still means they're cucks who you shouldn't ever give any money to if you can help it.
It's interesting how they don't know what to do with themselves when both sides are at their throat rather than just one, it is gratifying to see them on the backfoot. Really though they should be utterly destroyed as businesses for thinking they can get away with this behaviour for so long.
Agreed but MLB, like a lot of the big sports leagues and media companies, has such a monopolistic stranglehold on their market sector that you need legal action to break them up. Simply "don't consume" won't be enough, even though that's always a good idea.
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.