Baseball is great right now. Its got the most competitive season of any sport with all the teams involved and less playoff slots than any sport. Teams don't go 30 years without makiing it anymore. Local TV ratings and Attendance are great. Baseball's "perceived" falloff on the national level is due to the fact that the way baseball promoted itself to the national tv audience was through its benchmark numbers. In mid-summer we used to have national discussions on who was leading in batting average, rbi's, homeruns. Those debates about who was ahead in the mvp and the cy young were a big part of how MLB marketed itself nationally. When the steroid thing hit, everyone found all these stats meaningless cuz they couldnt decipher what was real and what wasn't.
Now the national sports media doesn't know how to cover baseball because its national marketing was based on these individual stats. But in all honesty the national media just sucks at conveying the storylines that are going on in the season because even though baseball is a long season thats played every day; there's so much speculation about who can make the playoffs because there's this crabs in the barrel dynamic constantly throughout the season that can make for great sports storylines if espn just actually covered it properly. Baseball's has incredible room for growth in the national eye though because people still love the game, they just love their own team cuz ESPN doesn't cover the storylines within the sport enough for people to know what the fukk else is going on in the sport outside of their home team.
Now the national sports media doesn't know how to cover baseball because its national marketing was based on these individual stats. But in all honesty the national media just sucks at conveying the storylines that are going on in the season because even though baseball is a long season thats played every day; there's so much speculation about who can make the playoffs because there's this crabs in the barrel dynamic constantly throughout the season that can make for great sports storylines if espn just actually covered it properly. Baseball's has incredible room for growth in the national eye though because people still love the game, they just love their own team cuz ESPN doesn't cover the storylines within the sport enough for people to know what the fukk else is going on in the sport outside of their home team.
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