re: Bloomberg: MLB is an inferior good

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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.

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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.