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[*bengalfan74*]

(06-23-2020, 06:27 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Maybe they're starting to realize how close to total irrelevance baseball really is these days.  No season at all this year and I'm not sure they could climb out of that hole.  Interest has been waning and they're not pulling in the younger generations they need to keep the sport alive.  This feels like a salvage attempt just to keep the league from falling off everyone's radar.  

I was a bigger baseball fan than football fan growing up.  Early to mid-90s, that was my game.  It's sad to see how it's dropped off for so many over the years.  I know I can't get my kids interested at all.  And they're not even on phones/video games.  It's just that there is so much in life to compete, and baseball is a long game played on a lot of hot days.  

I'd love to see them find a way to bring it back in relevance and get the younger fans engaged!

Yep

I grew up in the 70's, Big Red Machine days. Any given summer day you could drive around town and see a half dozen sand lot/back yard games going on. And another half dozen whiffleball  games going as well. I couldn't even tell you when the last time I saw a dozen boys playing an unorganized game of baseball in a field ? Like you say probably early 90's. Sine then it's slowly but surely fell off the kids radar and once they're all gone baseball is gone.

I wonder where we'd be right now if not for all the international players ?

But anyways glad to hear they're trying to keep it alive, I guess ?