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Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:06 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:06 am
Bloomberg link: LINK
From the Wiki on "Inferior Good": LINK
This confirms what many of us have been saying all along. Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but by and large this is true. Only the same crowd who could enjoy watching cars go round and round a track for hours could enjoy this awful, boring sport.
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In consumer theory, an inferior good is a good that decreases in demand when consumer income rises.
From the Wiki on "Inferior Good": LINK
This confirms what many of us have been saying all along. Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but by and large this is true. Only the same crowd who could enjoy watching cars go round and round a track for hours could enjoy this awful, boring sport.
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This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 10:07 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:08 am to moneybadger
Baseball is clearly no longer the biggest sport in America but it is firmly grasped onto the number 2 spot. Baseball isn't going anywhere.
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Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:10 am to moneybadger
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Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport.
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Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:11 am to moneybadger
quote:Wait, hold on. A white trash sport? Maybe on the south side of Chicago, but not everywhere.
This confirms what many of us have been saying all along. Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but by and large this is true. Only the same crowd who could enjoy watching cars go round and round a track for hours could enjoy this awful, boring sport.
Is baseball boring? To the average fan, yes. Is it too long of a time to sit in a park and spit sunflower seeds into a cup? Probably so. Is the season too long? Probably so.
You can think what you want, but if I'm being honest, calling it a white trash sport is really one of the things I'd never think to call it.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:11 am to LouisianaSatNight
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Baseball isn't going anywhere.
No one said it was going anywhere.
This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 10:12 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:12 am to The Sad Banana
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You can think what you want, but if I'm being honest, calling it a white trash sport is really one of the things I'd never think to call it.
yeah its far from a white trash sport. its a thinking mans game so really its the exact opposite of white trash.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:13 am to moneybadger
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This confirms what many of us have been saying all along. Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but by and large this is true. Only the same crowd who could enjoy watching cars go round and round a track for hours could enjoy this awful, boring sport.
Solid troll attempt.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:13 am to bbap
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its a thinking mans game so really its the exact opposite of white trash.
No. It's a game for braindead conservative white men who are desperate to hold on stale traditions.
This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
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Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
How's this for stale traditions? The DH is for fairies.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
Yes, yes, I'd much rather watch 2 hand touch football that is called the NFL.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
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Baseball is now primarily a white trash sport.
Actually, football is a white trash sport. It's a far more popular sport than baseball among poor white people in the south. And the main reason why football is the most popular sport in the country is due to its immense popularity among white conservatives who are the majority in this country.
This post was edited on 4/16/12 at 10:15 am
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
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No. It's a game for braindead conservative white men who are desperate to hold on stale traditions.
i mean that's just flat out wrong but you are entitled to your terrible opinion.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:14 am to moneybadger
I'd say it's becoming more of an elitist sport in the U.S. than white trash. $300 little league bats and elite travel teams make it tough to make it as a poor kid. Obviously you can succeed without all of that crap, look at Latin players, that's why I said in the U.S.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:19 am to LouisianaSatNight
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Baseball is clearly no longer the biggest sport in America but it is firmly grasped onto the number 2 spot. Baseball isn't going anywhere.
THIS.
Money wise, baseball is just fine and that's what counts. Sure, you don't have the huge crowds like football, but 81 home games of crowds of paid attendance of 14k for the bottom teams up to 40k+ for the best teams = a shitpile of money.
So, do the math. (I'm going REALLY cheap here)
14k per game for 81 games= 1,134,000 fans per year.
Say the average person of those 14k spends $50 (tix plus concessions)= $56,700,000. And that's assuming really cheap prices because I guarantee between parking passes, concessions, and tickets most people are spending more than $50 per person.
That doesn't include tv money or merchandise money. PLus, those teams who average 14k, usually have a payroll of shite.
Hell, running the numbers for a team like the cubs who averages around 36k make them $145.8 million per year.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:20 am to Moustache
quote:Gotta pay Soriano's contract somehow.
Hell, running the numbers for a team like the cubs who averages around 36k make them $145.8 million per year.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:21 am to JJ27
Also, it's ironic how the OP calls MLB a "white trash sport" when he's a fan of MMA, a sport that has a huge following among white nationalist groups.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:23 am to moneybadger
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Only the same crowd who could enjoy watching cars go round and round a track for hours could enjoy this awful, boring sport.
As a fan of NASCAR, I can say that this is patently untrue
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:23 am to JJ27
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I'd say it's becoming more of an elitist sport in the U.S. than white trash. $300 little league bats and elite travel teams make it tough to make it as a poor kid. Obviously you can succeed without all of that crap, look at Latin players, that's why I said in the U.S.
Latin players and rich white players make up the majority of baseball players these days. Blacks just play basketball and football for the most part.
WHite trash cheers on the blacks who play football. Baseball fans tend to be these groups:
1. Rich or conservative whites (majority in the country)
2. Hispanics-----the fastest growing group in the USA
3. Suburbanites who want something to do and go to a ball game.
With those 3 fanbases and the fact that baseball teams really only need to average a little over 22k per game to make a lot of money, I'd say baseball is solidly in 2nd place, the NBA will probably be no more in the future, and the NFL with all the pussified rules will start to alienate its fanbase which equals good news for baseball.
Posted on 4/16/12 at 10:24 am to moneybadger
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Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good
This is rich seeing as they tried to peddle that bowl of rhino crap they called Front Office for fantasy baseball.
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