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Anyone else surprised baseball is still popular in the United States?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:08 pm
And how much longer do you give it?
Long season, long games, little action, lopsided payrolls, daytime games throughout the week when people are at work (not that anyone watches all the regular season games either....too boring)
With the ADD/ADHD generations getting older, will baseball's popularity die off within 20-40 years? Is it kinda like soccer where all kids play when they're little, but stop playing & watching when they get older? Anyone here watch more than 50 full games in real time throughout the season?
Long season, long games, little action, lopsided payrolls, daytime games throughout the week when people are at work (not that anyone watches all the regular season games either....too boring)
With the ADD/ADHD generations getting older, will baseball's popularity die off within 20-40 years? Is it kinda like soccer where all kids play when they're little, but stop playing & watching when they get older? Anyone here watch more than 50 full games in real time throughout the season?
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Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:08 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
get the frick out
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:09 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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UFownstSECsince1950
Nice troll.
MLB is way more popular up north. Everyone in the south has a skewed view of it.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:09 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Its healthier than the NFL.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:10 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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Anyone else surprised baseball is still popular in the United States?
It will stay popular way longer than basketball. Ask any of your buddies/neighbors with kids if their boys play in a youth basketball league. Then ask them if they play youth baseball.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:10 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Baseball > every other sport combined
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:10 pm to barry
Baseball haters are almost as bad as soccer haters with having to tell everyone how much they dislike the sport.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to barry
Don't way more people in the south play it than the yankees up north? Youth baseball is huge in Florida
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
with football and basketball becoming more and more pussified baseball will continue to be fine
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
They do need to shorten the season by about 40 games, but they won't.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to Choupique19
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It will stay popular way longer than basketball. Ask any of your buddies/neighbors with kids if their boys play in a youth basketball league. Then ask them if they play youth baseball.
lol
Your suburban BR neighborhood isn't a great sample size.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:11 pm to barry
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MLB is way more popular up north. Everyone in the south has a skewed view of it.
No way. Just as popular if not more popular in the South.
I agree with the OP though. I dont know if it will ever die, but it is quickly becoming the third biggest sport.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:12 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
you must be feeling froggy today. I dare you to leap! i'll slap the shite out of you ,boy
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:12 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
You're going to get pummelled, but I felt like somebody needed to step up and tell baseball guy to settle down on the threads today since there are a few more games left to play.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:13 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
attempting to watch this yankees/sox game right now. it's a chore. mlb is pretty terrible.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:13 pm to Choupique19
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It will stay popular way longer than basketball. Ask any of your buddies/neighbors with kids if their boys play in a youth basketball league. Then ask them if they play youth baseball.
My nephews play soccer and basketball. Their respective ages are 7 and 12. They think baseball is boring. As one puts it, "It's a bunch of standing around and waiting in line."
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:13 pm to TreyAnastasio
It's the college football of the northeast. People in the northeast think college football isn't very popular, either. It's what you're exposed to.
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:15 pm to WDE24
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They do need to shorten the season by about 40 games, but they won't.
why should they shorten the season?
Posted on 4/1/13 at 1:15 pm to mattz1122
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Your suburban BR neighborhood isn't a great sample size.
Youth basketball leagues are dying. Youth baseball teams have turned into a year round obsession.
I don't agree with it one bit, but it's happening, and that tells me that the popularity of baseball isn't about to go away.
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