As lockout drags on, poll indicates MLB could be charting path to irrelevance
It’s been said that apathy is worse than anger. If that’s true, MLB could be in trouble.
We’re more than a month into the MLB lockout, with negotiations basically non-existent, spring training reporting dates creeping closer, and lots of sports fans greeting it all with a full-throated … meh.
No surprise there.
The survey of 1,570 adults last month found that 44 percent of respondents who identify as avid sports fans would be less interested in big league baseball when the 2022 season begins. That should strike MLB as a disturbingly high number. But even if the Powers That Be wave that away, there’s another troubling revelation from the poll: 54 percent of the general public responded that it had no interest in MLB anyway.
I would be in that 54%.
MLB, NBA, etc.
The longer the lockout lasts, the longer MLB’s owners and players give us little reason to think about their sport beyond bemoaning its inability to get its act together, the tougher the challenge becomes.
So how can MLB — both players and owners — reverse those poll numbers…? How much time is left before they become irreversible? The solutions are mostly debatable, but one is indisputable: They have to play the games. MLB must have a product to showcase. That means this labor dispute must end quickly so MLB and its players can make their latest sales pitch to millions of fans and would-be customers.
For one, removal ALL woke/SJW/BS from all games and telecasts.
We want to watch SPORTS, not BS, would have to happen.
There may have been a time when “if we play it, they will come” was a reasonable operating philosophy. But we’re certainly not there anymore. There are now other “ifs” to consider — including what happens if baseball slips further in the public’s entertainment conscience.
It’s an outcome that would likely push baseball from importance to irrelevance.
Considering it is not long the #1 sport in the US, that push has been well underway for some time now.
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