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Originally Posted by Taz's Master
"The love of money is the root of all evil"
You don't hate baseball, you hate MLB.
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You have a great point. I watch the LLWS on occasion (not every game by far but more than I've ever watched the MLB). Probably because the players exude more passion than those in the pros. Same with college vs. pro football- don't see any primadonna wide receivers sitting out a game because they didn't get the same text book money increase that another school did.
MLB is making a tremendous error. By scheduling late games, they may be raking in sponsor money but they're not building a fan base. If they put on more day games that younger generations could watch (ostensibly with their parents or family), they'd be forming emotional ties to the game that would be hard to break down the line. I believe that really stupid people are running companies these days- marketing opportunities and matches are being blown. Suppose I'll simply sit by the phone until one of them is fired.