How To Save Baseball
If you fix it, they will come
Moonlight Graham is ready to do what no one (and certainly no podcast) has been able to do; fix the game of baseball. Tim flies solo this week to bring you what baseball needs to do from just about every angle to improve the game. Baseball is still America’s pastime. There is just something about going to a ballpark, getting a bag of seeds, and enjoying a game at any level. Generally, baseball seems to be losing touch with keeping itself what has always made it great. Going all the way back to t-ball, kids grow up wearing the names of a major league club’s logo ironed onto a t-shirt. But with all of the rules and costs associated with being a baseball fan, the game has become either hard to watch because of the interruptions of instant reply or because it is too expensive.
Lean into the brawls
Moonlight Tim brings you a 10 point plan that will help save the game we all love. From making it affordable to get into a stadium to getting rid of the blackouts that prevent us from seeing our favorite teams from home, baseball has a fan problem. Watching the game is one important aspect, but Tim also has more outside-the-box ideas for investing in growing the fanbase from the bottom up. We are talking about major league barnstorming tours like we used to see over the last hundred-plus years. Bringing the sport to fans while hosting home run derbies and pitching competitions could help gin up new fans and reenergize old ones.
The game of baseball is unique even among professional sports. The combination of athleticism, skill, and strategy makes it stand out even among the big three professional leagues. The game itself doesn’t need to change but the MLB needs to take Tim’s approach to get fans invested and return to the game so many of us grew up loving.
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