So much of the contemporary conversation about baseball revolves around the long-term economic health of the game. Attendance is volatile, cord-cutting is on the rise, and people generally seem to think that baseball is “boring”. Despite MLB posting record revenues annually, there’s a real fear that it’s not sustainable.
I’m never sure how much of that to believe. Lots of big TV money is locked in for the better part of a decade, and teams like the Cubs and Yankees are in the midst of transforming their regional sports networks to better serve a changing baseball consumer.