Why is the MLB so bad at marketing now?
- Thread starter Colin X
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It probably doesn't help that their best player plays on a team is mediocre at best and is just goes about his day and plays ball. If he played on the Yankees,Dodgers, or Red Sox, or any team that is consistently winning then it's easier to market someone who doesn't have the personality or charisma.
Judge isn't like jeter though, just because he can hit hrs far it doesn't make him a superstar
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
ah, but Judge is a rookie and at the same stage, Judge has received more pub. If Judge wins like Jeter then he's on the fast track to immortality. Jeter had other things outside of baseball that made him a big star in NYC
He's bumped YES' ratings up, recouping the loss after rock bottoming out last season and where they've been in the non-Jeter years in general. He's bland as fukk, but that's how the Yankee fan base at large likes them best.
He probably won't have the national fame Jeter did/does, but that's because he won't be fukking the same tier of women, the team isn't going to go on the same sort of run, and he's not going to likely have the same friends in high of places.
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HumbertoWCA
Venezuela
Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
The 86 Mets was an entire team full of JR Smith, wasn't born yet but I heard that team was wild off the fieldImagine if baseball had a JR Smith.
fukking thots in the club one night, then hitting HR's the following night.
Strawberry was bragging about stealing nikkaz girls on that 30 for 30 
Smashing females during games in the clubhouse, etc.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
which is quite telling of how grown men watch sports in 2017.
SmoothOperator88
Your friendly neighborhood coli poster
Yeah, but Jeter was visable as fukk. He played on the Yankees, did commercials, had major endorsements and was always dating someone famous and stayed in the headlines. His "bland personality" was a very deliberate part of building his brand and Jeter's brand you can tell is very important to him.
On the flipside, Mike Trout doesn't have a brand. He's a boring dude who doesn't put himself out there on purpose in all likelihood and there's so much potential. Dude even has his own Nike signature shoe. Only baseball athlete's to have their own shoes that I know of are Jeter and Griffey. Mike Trout is one of the best players in the last 50 years and nobody gives a fukk outside of people who watch baseball.
Bay Area
Raiders/Warriors/A's
I honestly dont think our generation has the attention span to watch 9 innings of regular season baseball regardless of the stars.
Yea I would argue they dont have to sell excitement cuz the average baseball fan is a 50 yr old bland old cac with a combover....they love the blandness associated with baseball...
Show charisma get a 90 mph fastball to ur nogging
