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Originally posted by Skipaway
Why people still believe in the propaganda of Bud?
Labor dispute IS the biggest issue, but not those "small market can't survive" ****.
The small market myth is generated by owners because of the labor dispute. If people actually buy into that mindset, the owners would have an upperhand.
First of all, there is no good definition of small market already. Cleveland was a big market a few years ago but not now. Seattle became a big market all at a sudden. Detroit is big in metro size, but now considered a small market? And if market size is all that important, why don't the owners fix it by putting 2 more teams into New York ( lots of sports leagues in other countries do things like that, like japanese baseball league) or why aren't there a team in Washington already? The owners are selfish and greedy and not really care about baseball. Small market myth is just a good excuse that everybody seemed to believe in.
And, even if some teams might really be bad at generating large revenues and can not field top notch teams, so what? Why is that bad for a sport? There are tons of miserable no chance teams in all NCAA sports!! Is college sports dying? Why people still show up for those games?? Why don't those miserable programs fold? Poor teams might not earn big money, but they still can turn a good profit.
If any of those stupid theories by owners is true, baseball were dead 80 years ago already.
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I agree about the market size issue. I've been baffled about Detroit for a while. It's a huge city. Even if it has a bad economy, it should be able to generate enough revenue to take on Kansas City any day.
I don't think it's quite right to compare a major league sport to NCAA sports, though. They are at different levels and generate revenue differently.
All that said, I don't think Mr. Lovecraft's little diatribe was written with the intent of being factual so much as just a dispairing little piece about the state of the sport. It's just one little sentence in the middle of a paragraph and it doesn't really make an argument for or against it.