Baseball made 7.5 billion in revnue last year

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why must you make things so difficult for him?

 

[Captain Crunch]

why has the younger black generation largely abandoned baseball?

1. It's not like the NBA or NFL, where you go to school for 1 yr(NBA) or 3-4 yrs and get drafted and play in the pros. In MLB, once you're drafted, you don't know when you'll make the pros(hell if you get drafted, a good number of prospects don't see the majors), it can be in 2-3 years after you get drafted or it can be 5-7 years after you get drafted.

2. Most universities don't really offer scholarships for baseball, there's not too many full rides to be the starting shortstop of the Clemson Tigers.

3. Baseball players typically don't see big money til 8+ yrs AFTER they've been drafted. Say if your son is a Lebron James type baseball prospect drafted out of HS, he'll get like 2-3 mil for his first contract, and he'll spend at least 1 year in the minors then he'll come up. It takes 2+ yrs of MLB service time(a full year of service time is 172 games, a MLB regular season is 162 games) to make good money in arbitration. Assuming he makes the majors a year or so after he's drafted and STAYS there, he'll make his fair market value in 7 years(assuming he doesn't take any extensions that buy out his FA years).

4. Maybe not that a big of a deal, but the Jordan and some of the prolific black NFL players(Deion; TO, Moss, Vick, Champ Bailey, Cunningham, Barry Sanders) of the last 20 years might hurt the lack of American born black players. Seeing Jordan w/ all those commercials and sneakers, might have sent a signal to young athletes like "damn, why play baseball, when I can play ball and be the next Jordan". You can say the same w/ Vick/Moss/TO/Cunningham/Barry Sanders.

 

[CrimsonTider]

1. It's not like the NBA or NFL, where you go to school for 1 yr(NBA) or 3-4 yrs and get drafted and play in the pros. In MLB, once you're drafted, you don't know when you'll make the pros(hell if you get drafted, a good number of prospects don't see the majors), it can be in 2-3 years after you get drafted or it can be 5-7 years after you get drafted.

2. Most universities don't really offer scholarships for baseball, there's not too many full rides to be the starting shortstop of the Clemson Tigers.

3. Baseball players typically don't see big money til 8+ yrs AFTER they've been drafted. Say if your son is a Lebron James type baseball prospect drafted out of HS, he'll get like 2-3 mil for his first contract, and he'll spend at least 1 year in the minors then he'll come up. It takes 2+ yrs of MLB service time(a full year of service time is 172 games, a MLB regular season is 162 games) to make good money in arbitration. Assuming he makes the majors a year or so after he's drafted and STAYS there, he'll make his fair market value in 7 years(assuming he doesn't take any extensions that buy out his FA years).

4. Maybe not that a big of a deal, but the Jordan and some of the prolific black NFL players(Deion; TO, Moss, Vick, Champ Bailey, Cunningham, Barry Sanders) of the last 20 years might hurt the lack of American born black players. Seeing Jordan w/ all those commercials and sneakers, might have sent a signal to young athletes like "damn, why play baseball, when I can play ball and be the next Jordan". You can say the same w/ Vick/Moss/TO/Cunningham/Barry Sanders.

Or you can just say that it is boring.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Or you can just say that it is boring.

If it's so boring, why is it #2 in America, #2 in DR/Cuba/Venezuela/Colombia/PR/Mexico/Panama, #1 in Japan and Chinese Tapei
I wonder where football is popular aside from North America?

 

[Juven]

If it's so boring, why is it #2 in America, #2 in DR/Cuba/Venezuela/Colombia/PR/Mexico/Panama, #1 in Japan and Chinese Tapei
I wonder where football is popular aside from North America?

they dont got the money to play football

 

[KnowledgeDropper]

Baseball's national ratings are low, but local ratings are very high. YES makes a killing on Yankees games. The Dodgers just signed a huge local TV deal. Plus, attendance at the games is relatively good, with 81 home games per year. Baseball is about following your team as opposed to national popularity. It's fine.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Pitchers and catchers report in a few weeks

 

[DeVanteSwing]

why has the younger black generation largely abandoned baseball?

adam jones bout to change that

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

why has the younger black generation largely abandoned baseball?

Look at the Atlanta Braves new outfield, breh.

Justin Upton, BJ Upton and Jason Heyward

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

WHO IS BASEBALL?

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

I went to Dodger game and the hot dogs came with nuts.

 

[YourMajesty]

How much they profit though?

 

[Reggie]

And we wonder how they can give out these outrageouse contracts to above average players.

 

[GetSomeMoney]

People overlook the fact baseball essentially have their own stage when it comes to sports, nothing else going on in the summer

 

[Tommy Fits]

1. It's not like the NBA or NFL, where you go to school for 1 yr(NBA) or 3-4 yrs and get drafted and play in the pros. In MLB, once you're drafted, you don't know when you'll make the pros(hell if you get drafted, a good number of prospects don't see the majors), it can be in 2-3 years after you get drafted or it can be 5-7 years after you get drafted.

2. Most universities don't really offer scholarships for baseball, there's not too many full rides to be the starting shortstop of the Clemson Tigers.

3. Baseball players typically don't see big money til 8+ yrs AFTER they've been drafted. Say if your son is a Lebron James type baseball prospect drafted out of HS, he'll get like 2-3 mil for his first contract, and he'll spend at least 1 year in the minors then he'll come up. It takes 2+ yrs of MLB service time(a full year of service time is 172 games, a MLB regular season is 162 games) to make good money in arbitration. Assuming he makes the majors a year or so after he's drafted and STAYS there, he'll make his fair market value in 7 years(assuming he doesn't take any extensions that buy out his FA years).

4. Maybe not that a big of a deal, but the Jordan and some of the prolific black NFL players(Deion; TO, Moss, Vick, Champ Bailey, Cunningham, Barry Sanders) of the last 20 years might hurt the lack of American born black players. Seeing Jordan w/ all those commercials and sneakers, might have sent a signal to young athletes like "damn, why play baseball, when I can play ball and be the next Jordan". You can say the same w/ Vick/Moss/TO/Cunningham/Barry Sanders.

Also Baseball has done a piss poor job of marketing their stars especially African American stars. The last I can remember getting a huge push on the level of the athletes you named was Griffey and that was more so because of Nike, not MLB.