What did anyone expect? We’ve seen diversity hiring in all Professional leagues. The NFL even has hilariously slow female referees now, not to mention “coaches”. We had a female golfer play with the men until it didn’t pan out a decade ago, now baseball is taking a stab because their numbers are dying.
I don't think it's numbers driving it. Attendance in baseball is the greatest of the five major North American leagues. Regional tv ratings went up in 2023 and playoff ratings were also up.
If it were for ratings at least they'd have a reason to change things. They are determined to add women to every male space, while maintaining spaces for women.
Attendance in college football outdoes professional baseball. We’re talking a 41% favorite compared to a ~9% favorite.
Average Attendance: The average attendance across all MLB teams in 2023 was 26,927, marking the best results through the end of April since 2017, and a 0.9% increase from the previous season.
The average attendance for the 2023 FBS season was around 36,376, with some teams averaging over 100,000 fans per game.
Now the mlb play a vastly larger schedule so you can argue total attendance is higher, but per game it’s not even comparable.
Now the mlb play a vastly larger schedule so you can argue total attendance is higher, but per game it’s not even comparable.
Yeah, that's kind of a big hand-wave there. 10 or 11 games vs what is it? Something like 160+ and then the playoffs that can potentially go 7 games per round instead of a single bowl game or two playoff game "postseason"?
Also, fuck college basketball and football. They should have been the canary in the coalmine for what has happened to our institutions of higher learning. Money ruins everything. It used to be students from one school playing students from another school. Now it's hired mercenaries playing hired mercenaries and they all get treated like royalty.
Because illegals getting imported into the kids leagues to pretend a 15 year old Hispanic with a mustache was 12 didn’t happen way before college football made up classes to pass retards? Also that was the average of the FBS which is 134 teams versus 30 mlb teams and college versus professional. You couldn’t even get ten million viewers for the 2023 World Series, in fact it was the lowest watched in history with the second lowest being 2020.
The capacities of the baseball stadiums are also vastly lower, and that average attendance number is dragged down massively by the Marlins and Athletics actively trying to lose, the latter because failure nepotism baby John Fisher is trying and failing to move the team to Vegas by any means necessary
What did anyone expect? We’ve seen diversity hiring in all Professional leagues. The NFL even has hilariously slow female referees now, not to mention “coaches”. We had a female golfer play with the men until it didn’t pan out a decade ago, now baseball is taking a stab because their numbers are dying.
I don't think it's numbers driving it. Attendance in baseball is the greatest of the five major North American leagues. Regional tv ratings went up in 2023 and playoff ratings were also up.
If it were for ratings at least they'd have a reason to change things. They are determined to add women to every male space, while maintaining spaces for women.
Attendance in college football outdoes professional baseball. We’re talking a 41% favorite compared to a ~9% favorite.
Now the mlb play a vastly larger schedule so you can argue total attendance is higher, but per game it’s not even comparable.
Yeah, that's kind of a big hand-wave there. 10 or 11 games vs what is it? Something like 160+ and then the playoffs that can potentially go 7 games per round instead of a single bowl game or two playoff game "postseason"?
Also, fuck college basketball and football. They should have been the canary in the coalmine for what has happened to our institutions of higher learning. Money ruins everything. It used to be students from one school playing students from another school. Now it's hired mercenaries playing hired mercenaries and they all get treated like royalty.
Because illegals getting imported into the kids leagues to pretend a 15 year old Hispanic with a mustache was 12 didn’t happen way before college football made up classes to pass retards? Also that was the average of the FBS which is 134 teams versus 30 mlb teams and college versus professional. You couldn’t even get ten million viewers for the 2023 World Series, in fact it was the lowest watched in history with the second lowest being 2020.
The capacities of the baseball stadiums are also vastly lower, and that average attendance number is dragged down massively by the Marlins and Athletics actively trying to lose, the latter because failure nepotism baby John Fisher is trying and failing to move the team to Vegas by any means necessary