Baseball died this summer. The baseball media is unable to see it yet, but all the signs are there.
Those diverging trend lines — fewer fans in the ballpark, but richer media fees and overall revenues — make up an uncomfortable truth about baseball in the 21st century. Ticket sales, long the bread and butter for the sport, are no longer the central driver of the business at a time when the sport’s digital business is ascendant.
Source: Baseball Saw a Million More Empty Seats. Does It Matter? – The New York Times
As the King Of Fairness I will point out that the Mets attendance was UP!
