Why is the MLB so bad at marketing now?
- Thread starter Colin X
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) at 6'7" 280lb smackin HRs like crazy 
we takin over the world 
Bilz
Superstar
A lot of the big name players from the 80s and 90s were bland and had no swag at all. Hitting 30 home runs in a season made you famous.
As a whole, the game just hasn't translated to the internet era.
As a whole, the game just hasn't translated to the internet era.
Maybe fukkery was the wrong word. There is alot of talent in the league right now, but the league is too cookie cutter. I used to be able to watch baseball religiously, but now I only get invested during the playoff race. Rivalries don't even feel the same. These cats are boring. I don't feel this away about other sports, just baseball.
Born2BKing
Veteran
That's because the entire team was comprised of coke headsThe 86 Mets was an entire team full of JR Smith, wasn't born yet but I heard that team was wild off the fieldStrawberry was bragging about stealing nikkaz girls on that 30 for 30
Smashing females during games in the clubhouse, etc.
Born2BKing
Veteran
Hate to say it but too many damn latin players, who speak no english.
Matt Kemp breh
They don't have any big charisma players like the 90s and 00s
You had
big Papi - retired
Jeter- retired
A rod - retired
Pedro Martinez - retired
Barry bonds - retired
Manny Ramirez - retired
They haven't been able to replace those personalities. Everyone in baseball is bland now.
You had
big Papi - retired
Jeter- retired
A rod - retired
Pedro Martinez - retired
Barry bonds - retired
Manny Ramirez - retired
They haven't been able to replace those personalities. Everyone in baseball is bland now.
Jimmy Rollins the closest thing to a modern player you'll get with bytches in the club lol. Strawberry I heard partied but that was the cocaine fueled 80's.Imagine if baseball had a JR Smith.
fukking thots in the club one night, then hitting HR's the following night.
That being said give it another 10 or so years. Black mothers are putting their kids back into baseball because of concussions/racism/non guaranteed $$$ in football so it's only a matter of time before we take that sport back from Latino players.
Only 2 players you listed had any charisma
In baseball historically personality and charisma didn't matter as long as you made those numbers. Albert Belle never spoke to the media but anyone who watched ESPN in the 90s knew he was one of the best cuz dude would get 130 rbis a season.
Bilz
Superstar
Exactly. It has nothing to do with a change in player personalities. People say football and basketball players are bytches now compared to the older players too. 25 years ago, we would hear about Mike Trout all day long.
Baseball thrived in an era when people didn't have many options. Newspapers were the primary media source and the writers were old white men who liked baseball so that's what they wrote about. The sports section listed all of the baseball stats regularly and had writeups of all games. If it wasnt Sunday, the only sport you could really watch on tv was baseball. Now that people have more choice of what to watch on TV and newspapers are basically extinct, things are different.