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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4532196" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/19/mlb-restart-standoff-owners-players" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Major League Baseball is making the error of a lifetime</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px">The perennial hand-wringing over Major League Baseball’s waning popularity and relevancy amid the hastening pace of American life, a tradition dating back more than a century, is not entirely without merit. Average attendance at major league ballparks <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/misc.shtml" target="_blank">hit a 16-year low</a> in 2019. Little League participation is down. A Gallup poll shows baseball, which ceded the practical if not symbolic mantle of national pastime to the NFL decades ago, is falling behind basketball in popularity among fans in the United States. The median age of fans for last year’s World Series <a href="https://adage.com/article/sports/fox-earns-big-payday-end-wild-and-wooly-world-series/2212236" target="_blank">inched upward yet again</a> from the year before to 56.9. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">A year without MLB could drive home a point that no one involved should want in the public domain: that we can live without it. While baseball’s place in our past is indelible, far less certain is where it belongs in our future. Both sides have made it clear they’re taking its place in the American consciousness for granted. After punting on its time to shine and an unprecedented opportunity to bring in new fans and , baseball can only shift its focusing on holding on to the ones it’s got. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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