Funding in USA baseball is drying up as well. Considering how expensive the sport can be at the youth level, it wouldn't surprise me if the sport fell down into that niche category with golf and tennis.
Great job by the MLB to make some really excellent changes that made baseball more watchable than it's been in decades after the sport was already dead.
They go from 1 TV game last season to 90% of their games on TV next season. That is a needle mover like we’ve never seen before. Zion’s effect was similar but much smaller in scale. I’d say the closest thing is Mahomes and Allen, given how relatively small their markets are versus how many primetime games they get.
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