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Originally posted by ctorg
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.
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Thank you, Mr. - um - ctorg. I actually do agree that the market size issue has been made out to be much larger than it is. I mean, there will always be some financial advantage to being in New York or LA, but I don't believe the Twins are some poor little team from the midwest. They're doing just fine.
That wasn't the point of my post at all, really. I just threw it in to put forth one of the issues that exists in baseball, whether it is fact-based or not.
I was lamenting what I perceive as a bleak future for the sport. If you believe baseball will be around forever, I think that's just silly. Nothing will be around forever. Who knows what future generations will make of our little sport, if it is even looked back upon at all. It has only been around for under 2 centuries, which is not even a blip in time. There's no reason to think it
won't be gone someday. I just find its imminent passing to be unfortunate, since it is, to me, the only sport worth watching.