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The Dying Sport







Baseball is a dying sport and something needs to be done for the sake of baseball. This is a call to the MLB to take some notes from the NBA and NFL.
Let’s go back to Philadelphia 2008, one of the premier sports cities in America. Where an average of 42,254 people are attending a contending Phillies team full of exciting players including Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and more.
Today, Phillies for the first time since 2010 are a contender and are a team that is threatening to go far in the playoffs. Half of Philly can’t even name 5 players on the team and the average attendance 24,713.
Milennials are impatient they don’t have the pateince to sit down for a three and a half hour baseball game to drag on. Sports like the NBA and NFL are  fully aware of this and that’s why they have taken steps to speed up their respective games. You watch football now and huddles are non-existent, this speeds up the game incredibly as there is less intermission and more action.
Since 2010 MLB has took away the rule that allows runners to hit the catcher this is one of  the more exciting parts of the game the MLB decided to take away. This isn’t the only thing the MLB took  from its fans: it took their stars.
The MLB lacks exciting stars like other sports like the NBA and NFL who have an abbundance of them.These leagues not only have stars but, they have personalities for example the NBA has players who aren’t stars but, exciting such as Lonzo Ball,Lance Stephenson,and Enes Kanter.
The MLB needs to bring in stars and players that will attract more media like players such as David Ortiz, Josh Hamilton, and Alex Rodriguez.The MLB lost things that the NFL and NBA have. Even things now like beef between players is something fans and media eat up.
The recent Lonzo Ball diss track on Kyle Kuzma is more exciting to millenials than anything that has happened in the MLB all year.The last time I can remember beef in the MLB that made national news was Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
This is a warning for the MLB who are at the hands of milenials who hold the future of the MLB in their hands.Do something to draw fans in like the NBA and NFL have done. Make the MLB great again.
By:Jake Fernandez
@Fernywaffles

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