The problem with baseball is it’s too freakin hard to watch your team. You can live in the dang city they are in and if you don’t pay 150 for cable you can’t watch it.
@@loganknox7 my God, he's ancient and isn't an impact player anymore yet it makes up about 1/3rd of all of stephen a smith's mentions, while the other 2/3rds are split between his guy crush Aaron rodgers and taunting the Dallas cowboys. In focusing on 3 teams in any given sport, they get better ratings in the short term, but harm their ratings long term and cause people to start not caring what they have to say.
@@zanehuseth8621 just stop lol. If he wasn’t on a team that is absolute shit he’d be an impact player. He’s nowhere close to his prime, but man can still play
@@mpad4497 MLB team’s revenues imbalances due to the larger markets getting huge TV contracts compared to the smaller markets getting a fraction of the larger markets.
@@TheIcecreamtaco blackouts that expands up to 6-12 hours away from a stadium. I go to school in Oklahoma while rooting for the rangers. I’m not going to a Tuesday night game four hours away blackout or not. Let me just watch
I was expecting this clip to be bullshit when I saw it in my recommended, but it turns out that this is actually the rare case where ben shapiro has a good take on something that I 100% agree with
The problem with baseball is it’s too boring and hasn’t adapted in 100 years. Football and basketball change all the time. Imagine if you still didn’t throw the football and there was no 3 point line. That’s baseball
He right at the end. ESPN is obsessed with basketball, they even cover it more than football. Thankfully over the last year they started to give sports like hockey and baseball more coverage. Baseball will have a resurgence soon.
@@principalskinner677 you know why. 2 big things happened. 1.Kobe died and they wanted to milk that dry. 2.Cause the NBA was a hotbed of racial politics at the time with the George Floyd situation and BLM and the players being proactive about it. And Racial Politics bring in views and revenue.
I think the reason he can't name the starting lineups like when he was a kid is cause he grew up and pays less attention to sports. Same thing happened to me.
That is true, but back in the 70s and 80s, players stuck to one team more often than not. My grandpa could look me dead in the eye and tell me the starting rotation of the tigers in 1983, but with contract structures and rebuilds, you just don't have lifers too much anymore
Here is the thing. Baseball is such a unique sport. You can have all the skill and talent in the world, but Postseason Baseball is different. If a lower seed catches lightening in during the wildcard they can ride it all the way to the World Series. MLB should definitely expand the postseason, and decrease the amount of games being played. Baseball is magical. I say this as a millennial.
I absolutely agree. I'm glad MLB already has expanded the postseason this year. The Phillies were a 6th Seed! Under previous rules, they wouldn't be there. 🤷♂️☺️
I see your point but I feel it waters down the post season. I’m all for fewer games though. It’s a money grab. There’s 162 because they can not because it’s best for the sport. Football is now 17 games I believe but each nfl game is so much more important than a baseball game but if football owners could get 162 they would 😆. It’s just not physically possible. Always get to see the starting qb unless hurt. I’d love to see each baseball team have just one starting pitcher or two. Would be cool but can’t because of so many games
They've already expanded the post season about as far as they can without making it just a participant trophy. We have a total of 12 of the 30 teams in the postseason, 10 if you discount the wc. So you already have at least 1/3rd & almost 1/2 of the league in it. Expanding post season will do nothing but make the post season less special and entertaining. And why decrease games? I've never heard a valid argument or answer as to why 162 reg season games is bad. I think a lot of these opinions are coming from basketball /football fans who want a faster game & a quicker road to the post season like in those sports but baseball isn't the same thing & any diehard baseball fan will tell you that. Ppl need to stop trying to turn baseball into something it's not bc the more and more changes they make towards ideas like yours the more it losses its identity & the uniqueness you say you love about it
@@TunableFall662 Because 162 games waters it down. It’s so boring when you have to wait months before games start mattering. All I hear fro April-July is “it’s still early.” Yeah and still boring too.
@@tomd1434 it's not watered down & those games do matter. Every year teams make or lose a post season run by just a few games. The only reason games "don't matter" or aren't entertaining is bc you don't watch them. What you guys are asking for is essentially is to only have a post season. Football fans don't ask for that, basketball fans don't ask for that bc as fans of the sport you recognize the importance & entertainment of regular season games. You guys want to change baseball into something else bc you're not a fan so I don't see why you can't either get into baseball as the game it is or just don't. Baseball fans aren't trying to change football just so we like it. Some of yall just aren't into baseball unless it's playoffs & that's fine, watch just the playoffs but stop trying to take away the things we love about this game just bc it doesn't fit what you like.
The issue is it’s to hard to get into. Even to watch your local team you need cable or you need to buy expensive packages, but I feel for myself and everyone else I’ve seen, once you do buy it and start watching it it’s addicting. I had a baseball game going at my house and my friend who never knew anything about baseball came over and saw it and immediately got addicted. It’s a great sport to be able to play a videogame, cook, clean, and do much more things while watching it
He’s kind of right though there are some teams say the Oakland As that should probably be removed from the league. And even in 2002 there were supposed to be two teams the twins and the expos.
His mind must just be racing 24/7, that or he’s somehow smoking crack in between sentences. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone talk so fast naturally.
@@RyanDMoore - And you know this…how? I definitely agree he’s probably on some sort of amphetamine, but knowing his exact dosage would be strange. If he’s on Adderall IR he must be crushing them and snorting them, because otherwise even that’s not enough for how much he’s racing….that or maybe he’s just such a narcissist that he gets high on his own farts - he was Editor in Chief of Breitbart after all! He’s also a huge bigot, and proud of it.
A lot of it also has to deal with the really horrible distribution of star players When all your most marketable players play on the coasts, it’s hard to have the sport grow
St Louis is a long ways from the coasts with two of the most (now retired) marketable players in the game. But your issue is one of population not strictly geography. Small market teams are small market teams but mlb has tried to address that with salary restrictions that aren't quite as effective as NFL but they're working on it
Well yeah imagine wanting to live in Kansas City or Pittsburg lmao. As a matter of fact, I think this is why central teams haven’t been relevant since… no seriously when have they been relevant? Pirates won a few chips fifty years ago , Kansas City had one good year. But none of these teams have had steamroll rosters like the Astros
@@TheIcecreamtaco the cardinals and the Cleveland guardians were just in the playoffs ..the Chicago cubs won the world series not to long ago either all Midwest teams
@@aaroncarl2493 well yeah, a central team has to be in the playoffs every year. That’s how that works. But notice they build these super teams for one year and then fall off the face of the earth. The management doesn’t know what to do when they have a winning team
@@TheIcecreamtaco 2 things: 1. Midwest teams suffer the most without a salary cap, since they usually are the teams that have a lower payroll due to a lower budget. 2. A much bigger problem: Baseball organizations have the same problem as football of creating a team that can maintain success over a long period of time: there's a lot more players to maintain. The Astros are a model organization when it comes to just having an endless supply of talent due to excellent player development, but many franchises (*cough cough* Detroit) have no clue what they're doing when it comes to player development. The Tigers just built a team that splurged on a few free agents but had little in their farm system. So they were out of competition within 3-4 years. Even a west coast powerhouse like the Angels have the same problem.
What he means is the how hard guys throw overall. Yes, you had guys in the late 50's and early 60's like Koufax, Feller, Sutton, Spahn etc. But they were massive outliers, the average velocity was way below 95 like now. I guarantee you guys from the 50's wouldn't even bat 250 now because they'd be facing 3 or 4 different pitchers in any given game. They simply wouldn't be able to make the adjustment.
@@andrewpestotnik5495 yeah, Feller is one of the best ever for a reason, nobody was doing it back then like they do it now it's kinda like people who complain that the average hitter of today can't "just hit it the other way like Gwynn or Carew" like they're not some of the best contact hitters ever lol, it's apples to oranges
@@andrewpestotnik5495 He's not even right about that save perhaps in an indirect sense. The problem isn't that there isn't enough talent to go around. The problem is that there is no salary cap or floor in baseball. Luxury taxes don't work. But Ben being a ruthless neoliberal, he'd likely have no problem with zero regulation and the resulting semi-monopolistic nature of certain teams in the MLB. The MLB has been basically exempt from anti-trust laws for 100 years. The NFL is far more competitive, for example, because they have both a salary floor and a salary cap. Other incentives can be woven in to inspire greater competition as well. One example is designed to prevent a team from flopping for draft picks by having a lottery system. The NBA does this with the teams that didn't make the playoffs.
When I was child, growing up with local channels only, I loved watching my team play on Saturday or Sunday because those were the only games shown on local broadcast. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to watch any sport on TV.
The problem with baseball is that it’s a slow paced game, great for the old days where people have a lot of free time on their hands but unfit for today where peoples attention span is shortened drastically by much more selection on entertainment. So it went from Americas great pastime to boring af.
This has a lot of merit. In baseballs heyday there was no TV so people either stayed home and listened to the radio or sat on the porch and talked. To do something more entertaining they went to the movies or the theater or to a baseball game. Today there are how many streaming services, cable TV with hundreds of channels and sit and scroll through Facebook or Twitter as a way to kill time.
@@albertwang6465, you seem to be under the impression that there were 3 things to do in June 1954; sit in the dark, watch TV, go to baseball game. Having 1000 different things to watch on TV doesn't mean there are 1000 more things to do, it's just one thing. Well, what about gaming? People played games, just not the same ones. Still just one thing. People's lack of attention (in general) is their own doing. Watching 5 hours of reaction videos on CZcams is not an advancement socially or culturally and just because it's there isn't a good excuse for doing it.
@@chrisfoxwell4128 interesting, you claim people have same amount of choice of entertainment back in the day without internet? That is absolutely laughable. If that is the case, the internet would never take off like it did. You seem like one of those old heads who are skeptical of technological advancements. You are free to live in your old ways while the world would happily moving along without you.
@@dakota2386 he gives stupid people the chance to think they’re making an intellectual take on a subject. And he’s just a little prick. Would you wanna have a beer with him is the biggest question you can ask of a man.. and the answer for ben is a resounding no.
I lean more towards the issue being the amount of games in the season. You basically don't have any meaningful games until the last stretch in September and then the playoffs. Take the nfl for example, with only 17 games each one is meaningful to the outcome of your season and with it only being 1 a week you're fan base always turns in to that 1 game, while with baseball I miss probably a good 120 of my team's games each year. And then with the nfl playoffs, basically each game is a win or go home game 7. Baseball is just stretched to thin with 162 games/year
When I was about 12 years old I had baseball cards for every starting player on every team in the American league .now I couldn't even name one player on each team
Dudes right. Baseball dipped in popularity as soon as ESPN stopped covering it every morning. They switched to non-stop NBA and NFL talk. Sadly, the media owns your likes and dislikes. Ye was right.
Still the best sport EVER...just my opinion. As a Braves fan since the womb, I was lucky enough to be able to watch the Braves on T.V every single day, as was all of America. Hence the nickname "America's Team."
Their needs to either be a salary cap or a salary floor, the reason baseball is dying is because only the big market teams get the star players for the most part. The problem is that modern day mlb contracts are so large that only big city teams can actually acquire these players so I think a salary cap would really help level the playing field
Salary floor is even more crucial because literally all owners care about, fact not opinion, is having a positive profit margin. They don’t care about baseball
The problem with baseball is people's attention span. Casuals want a 11-10 slugfest but they don't realize that's going to take 4 hours. You get two guys throwing a no-hitter they'll find it boring but that game will go by so much faster. The best thing we can do is raise our children to play baseball and they will love baseball
Angel Canez, you are LITERALLY the first and so far only other person I've seen articulate the great conundrum. There is no way to make a Baseball game shorter by increasing the offense. And nobody seems to get it. I just ignore all the fucking dipshit idiots who want to make drastic changes like contracting teams, reducing amount of innings, and number of games played to "make it more watchable". But they're idiots. Baseball just works, it always has and always will. There's always gonna be the drooling simpletons who can't quite understand it and want to change it to please their neanderthal sensibilities. Baseball has it's TRUE fans and that's all it needs. It continues to grow and thrive. And I like it that way.
Pitchers haven't gotten faster. Today they record the speed of the ball right as it comes out of the pitchers hands. They didn't have that tech 20 years ago. They used to have to use those guns that recorded the speed at the plate. Air pressure and gravity slow the ball down over that distance. Adjusting for the difference Nolan Ryan is still the fastest pitcher of all time. His fastest pitch would be 106+ on today's radars. Blowing away Aroldis Chapman.
Why are some you bashing Ben? And baseball? Apparently some of don't know what you are talking about. Tell me how many of you actually played or watched a real game? I don't mean the kind where you sit on your behind, look at monitor, manipulate a controller. Pretend, make believe, fake, lazy, turn you into obese couch potatoes. Ben's assessment of baseball is for the most part is correct. With too many teams the talent pool gets stretched and thins out. The comment about baseball being more talented today, maybe partially right. Players today may be more conditioned, have better injury treatment & rehabilition, better sports science. Remember these points. Players from the past were pure raw talent, shorter seasons, more great players, mental & physical strength, without a past there would be no present or a future.etc. But throwing a ball harder does not make a pitcher. Pitching is knowing the hitters, throwing different types of pitches, off speed, out thinking the hitter (Oh, thinking is bad thing today, just look at politics). Throwing hard also might make a pitchers arm to go bad faster. Ruin a career. The general negative comments about baseball are just wrong. The game is boring? Perhaps. But blaming an external object is not the problem. It may be you. Not knowing the game plays a big part. Baseball (softball too) is a thinking persons game. Especially if playing. The hitter guesses where the pitch will go, what kind of pitch, whether to swing or let it go. Pitchers has to think what the hitter will hit, what kind of pitch to throw, etc. Baserunners how much of lead-off to take, when will the pitcher pick-off throw to the base, think how outs there are. Defense where will the ball will go, how many outs, where the runners are, how many outs, what base to throw for an out These are just a few. Now watching a game in person. Anything can happen in a game at anytime. Bring a radio to listen to the game (When Vin Scully Dodger sportscaster called the game). Watch and listen to the sights & sounds. Score the game. Be a part of it, not just a seat filler who payed a lot of money, just to sit or even socialize you can do that elsewhere.
I think Ben is only half correct.The past gave us the very best and most talented players so far: Babe Ruth, CY Young, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, DiMaggio, Ted Williams, L. Gerigh, Carl Y, J. Robinson, Koufax, Nolan Ryan, Rod Carew, Charlie Hustle, just to name a few. More pitchers throwing in the high 90 today are not more talented than the pitchers from the past that I mention here. And yes Baseball is a critical thinking sport and more often than not people don't like a brain exercise. Most people don't know that Baseball relies heavily on statistics and probability. Why a manager decides to bring a relieve pitcher with a 6.38 ERA to face the batting leader of the league with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th, and up 2-1 on the score board, instead of going to his closer with a 1.78 ERA? Well, the manager made the decision based on statistics and probability as the slugger likely has struck out 4/6 and reached base only one time against the pitcher. I enjoy it because It is a thinking game about numbers and probability.
"I was such a nerd when I was a kid that I could name the starting lineup of every player. Now I, Ben Shapiro, cannot name a single player. That proves that the MLB isn't reaching the average baseball fan, proves that you should take me as an authority on baseball."
Nice strawman. Now, you wanna counter his actual argument or make yourself look worse to people who can actually separate political beliefs from sports opinions?
ESPN sucks dick. If there isn't a racially charged/woke angle to it, they don't give a fuck about it. They only put their shit-paws back on Hockey to try to lessen the "whiteness" of it. Mark my words. They'll never outright admit it, but we all know it's true. And It's so sad too, Because the ESPN of the mid 90s - mid 2000s was just awesome.
The central divisons were horrible this season. Baseball is alive and well in southern California with the padres and dodgers. I also get to go watch legend superstar shohei ohtani wherever hes pitching at angels stadium. I love baseball right now. Much better than basketball.
Ryen Russillo said when they talked about baseball during ESPN shows, the ratings plummeted. National coverage for baseball is a hard sell for companies
MLB needs to have promotion and relegation with the minors. Best 2-4 teams in minors move to the MLB and worst 2-4 MLB teams move to the minors. It will never happen but itd be cool to see
Well 99% of players in the MLB are better then Minor League players. That's why they are there. One day they might be good enough. But that day hasn't came yet. Also the worst mlb team would destroy in the minors which then they'd be right back in the MLB.
Europeans and soccer fans solution to every problem in American sports is "add pro/rel." As if that's some magic cure-all. European soccer leagues have pro/rel and the same 1 or 2 teams still win every year, while promoted teams go down again, so how does that solve anything?
@@camark0819 do you guys even watch sports center I’m watching it right now and I’m seeing highlights of the baseball games today with some coverage of the playoff coming up
@@camark0819 I didn’t count how many highlights they showed compared to other sports but they talk about baseball and I’ll be fair I think they should talk about baseball more on the debate/talk shows such as first take or get up ect
“Oh man, the world’s biggest virgin can’t name a starting player for the Pirates. Better remove 20 teams from the league and start giving guys nicknames like “Scoops McCoy” again because, as we all know, Ben Sha🅱️iro is the one person most in touch with what’s popular.” - Rob Manfred
Killing small ball in order to simplify and increase the spectacle part of the sport by only covering and encouraging those 3. Problem is the nature of the sport will never be able to make it a spectacle life they are hoping
Whaddyaknow...I finally agree with Shapiro over something. And especially that finally point ..the dramatic imbalance of coverage by ESPN. I was just saying this... Not only baseball, but every sport. ESPN is the death curse of sports.
No. Ben just stopped following it like he did when he was a kid. As a Houstonian baseball is alive and well. When the hometown team is good there’s nothing better than baseball.
Sounds like he just outgrew his interest which happens. But you can’t say it’s completely failing because you don’t know anything about it anymore. I think the average baseball fan knows at least 1-3 stars on every team.
@@josephthebobcat5085 Shapiro is a pseudo nerd. He's the type of guy that if he owned a pharma company and his company made the only medication for the treatment of some rare disease, he would jack up the price to where it would be unaffordable for 90% of the people who needed it.
@@neftaliesanchez8304 correlation and causation. He correlates the fact that he can't name a player on a team now, but could as a kid, which means that baseball has a problem marketing. Is that a correct assessment? When he was a kid, I am sure there were plenty of adults that could not name a player on a team, just like there are plenty of kids today that can name players on every team. Adulting is hard, there are other things he is interested in which takes his time.
@@vu7419 I like your answer it's a cause, but the marketing is the worst out of all major sports in the US. It also doesn't help that the best player in the last decade (Trout) is doesn't want to be recognized as the face. Hopefully Julio, Othani, Acuña take that mantle from him next year and baseball would be in a better place because they're way more marketable. Nothing on Trout great player, but MLB wasted their time trying to promote him when clearly he didn't want to be promoted as the face.
Unfortunately you're right. The Buccos are my #2 team and sadly they are the best case for relegation in the 4 Major Sports. Their last World Series win was in 1979, I was born in 1981 and I'm certain that I will live the entirety of my life without seeing them win a World Series Championship.
The biggest problem with baseball is the lack of a salary cap! It pretty much guarantees that teams that are worth way more like the Yankees and Dodgers in the bigger markets, will always outbid teams like my Orioles for the top talent, unless like finally my Orioles got a GM that knows how to draft so we’re finally lookin like we’ll be competitive!!
@@thatleftyjames2893 Anecdotal: (of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research. Typical conservative moron
Think about this… when there were 24 teams prior to the 1977 expansion of Toronto and Seattle, there 120 starting pitchers. Prior to 1969 there were 20 teams and 100 starting pitchers. And before the 1961 and 1962 expansions there were 16 teams and 80 starting pitchers. Now there are 30 teams and 150 starting pitchers. Where did the 149th best starting pitcher play in 1958? The 149th best starting pitcher in baseball would have been lucky to make it to Triple A baseball. Now the 149th best starting pitcher is the 5th pitcher on a starting rotation on a MLB team. The talent is diluted to the point where Double A players make it to the Major Leagues because more roster spots are available.
Baseball needs to get away from this garbage about being emotionless and stoic. Let them celebrate and showboat, which leads them to attract a younger audience. If people don't like bat flips then your pitcher needs to be better and vice versa
Baseball is a local or regional sport very similar to soccer in Europe at all levels. But I do agree they do t market their players well enough and ESPN gives very small attention to it which is pitiful.
The MLB has been a business and lost its integrity along time ago and there are way too many teams. This season is too long and it’s all about making money but there’s definitely not enough talent to go around. They’ve diluted it to the point that they have to use super balls
You clearly have no clue wtf you’re talking about. Explain these so called “super balls.” Please. Because MLB deadened the baseball this year as a matter of fact. There’s PLENTY of talent to go around
The problem with baseball is that it’s fucking boring. 90% of the game is two guys playing catch. 7% is when a guy hits the ball and runs around the bases but doesn’t go anywhere. The other 3% are the teams swapping places at the tops and bottoms of each inning.
Sadly the reason they don't cover baseball on ESPN as much as they used to is they don't think it's diverse enough it doesn't fit the narrative ESPN/disney is trying to push. Which is wild because it has Chinese, Korean, Japanese,black, white, Latino you name it baseball is super diverse. I played ball for almost 30 years and I know it's hard for some people who don't know the sport well to watch. But I promise you if you get to see a game live whether it's a heated rival or coming down to the wire for playoffs the games are a blast.
The problem with the MLB is it does not have enough Black American players. In generations past, many of the most popular figures in the MLB where Black Americans. They were not only great players, but they were also charismatic, exciting. You had Reggie Jackson, Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey Jr., Ozzie Davis, Barry Bonds, Ricky Henderson, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Dwight Gooden, Tony Gwynn, Eddie Murray, Dave Whitfield, Andre Dawson, Kirby Puckett, Tim Raines, Jim Rice, Joe Carter, George Foster, Cecil Fielder,.etc. Some of these Black major leaguers were considered to be heroes, some villains. So regardless of how fans felt about them, they couldn't keep their eyes off of them. Black American athletes bring a unique, compelling energy and perspective to sports. They bring style, drama, excitement. Black men also connect with other elements of American culture in ways that others do not: Music, fashion, social media, politics. If the MLB is truly interested in bringing baseball back to the forefront of American sports and entertainment, the league would invest in baseball programs in Black communities, schools, and other extracurricular programs.
The lack of balance in national coverage makes it hard to keep up with Major League Baseball as a whole. Today, MLB's network television partners intentionally and severely limit their coverage to the same handful of teams year after year after year. I grew up with the Saturday Game of the Week and some Monday Night Baseball. Back then, the networks would make sure that even the non-contenders would get at least a little of the limelight.
Look at it this way, I can't watch the rangers on local TV without buying a cable package despite living less than 10 minutes from the ball park. That's what's killing it.
The problem with baseball is it’s too freakin hard to watch your team. You can live in the dang city they are in and if you don’t pay 150 for cable you can’t watch it.
Also where I’m at the games are scheduled at horrible times, either way too late or I’m at work until late innings
Dude tell me about it why am I illegally streaming games when I live 10 mins away from the stadium?! Fuck you Time Warner!
@@ethanedens6024 right man, it upsets the shit out of me, my team sucks so it doesn’t matter much but hey, go d-backs!!
@@TotallyBakerMayfield bring back Randy Johnson
Not only that, but mlb blackouts make it such that you literally can’t watch games that you subscribe to if they’re playing certain away games
Exactly ESPN focuses on lebron latest dunk for 30 min
It’s probably because lebron is on of the most popular Athletes in the world or at least in the US.
@@loganknox7 because he’s rammed down your throat every day
Everything I’ve seen about LeBron isn’t through choice
@@loganknox7 my God, he's ancient and isn't an impact player anymore yet it makes up about 1/3rd of all of stephen a smith's mentions, while the other 2/3rds are split between his guy crush Aaron rodgers and taunting the Dallas cowboys. In focusing on 3 teams in any given sport, they get better ratings in the short term, but harm their ratings long term and cause people to start not caring what they have to say.
ESPN has been unwatchable the past idk 5 or so years. You can find better coverage and entertainment on CZcams
@@zanehuseth8621 just stop lol. If he wasn’t on a team that is absolute shit he’d be an impact player. He’s nowhere close to his prime, but man can still play
Bro should just start doing auctions lmfao
I can’t stop imagining it now.
And I thought Hillary Clinton’s voice was annoying.
I mean it is, and so is his. Luckily he talks fast so my ear pain is over sooner.
LOL
Storage wars: “Yup!”
Underrated comment. You win the internet today.
Baseball did it to itself with the TV deals
That doesn’t even make sense
@@mpad4497 MLB team’s revenues imbalances due to the larger markets getting huge TV contracts compared to the smaller markets getting a fraction of the larger markets.
@@richardeast3328 yup
@@richardeast3328 not only that but the blackouts. It is baffling how they could let that slide
@@TheIcecreamtaco blackouts that expands up to 6-12 hours away from a stadium. I go to school in Oklahoma while rooting for the rangers. I’m not going to a Tuesday night game four hours away blackout or not. Let me just watch
You just spoke a 1 hour MLB discussion in 60 seconds.
He got it right though
I was expecting this clip to be bullshit when I saw it in my recommended, but it turns out that this is actually the rare case where ben shapiro has a good take on something that I 100% agree with
@@technoturnovers7072 idk abt rare he has a lot of good takes but that is your opinion at the end of the day
The problem with baseball is it’s too boring and hasn’t adapted in 100 years. Football and basketball change all the time. Imagine if you still didn’t throw the football and there was no 3 point line. That’s baseball
He right at the end. ESPN is obsessed with basketball, they even cover it more than football. Thankfully over the last year they started to give sports like hockey and baseball more coverage. Baseball will have a resurgence soon.
I hope so
Very true. It seems like ever since COVID, ESPN starting to extensively cover the NBA over all other sports for no reason at all
@@principalskinner677 you know why. 2 big things happened.
1.Kobe died and they wanted to milk that dry.
2.Cause the NBA was a hotbed of racial politics at the time with the George Floyd situation and BLM and the players being proactive about it. And Racial Politics bring in views and revenue.
Not true. At all.
Not if Rob Manfred is their commissioner. He’s terrible. If he’s their commissioner they will stay dead
I think the reason he can't name the starting lineups like when he was a kid is cause he grew up and pays less attention to sports. Same thing happened to me.
That is true, but back in the 70s and 80s, players stuck to one team more often than not. My grandpa could look me dead in the eye and tell me the starting rotation of the tigers in 1983, but with contract structures and rebuilds, you just don't have lifers too much anymore
@@981zASDF Ya that's fair, guys move around so much
Or he's lying and making the excuse to cover up he doesn't know jack about baseball.
@@RAAM855 that is fair as well. He's a fast talking jackass
Nah there are a lot of teams and also the focus doesn't get given to every single team. It is really tough unless you follow it religiously
Ben spent a lot of time stuffed into a locker at school. His non-stop talking is what aided the principal in finding the right locker. 😎
So what’s the difference IF that actually happened or not? Was his point right or wrong?
Stuffed in locker 😂 🎯
That's a boomer comment. Sounds like your uncle stuffed you a few too many times.
@@elmundo4530 who cares. He just... Says things. Constantly.
@@shane2163 I am the one who knocks.
Baseball's number 1 problem is it's TV deals.
MLB should AT LEAST have weekend World Series games on during the day, for younger audiences.
@@cashmoney6935 on the weekends???
Agreed. As I type this at the end of Game 4 nearing midnight in the eastern time zone.
Ben did manage the Minnesota Twins when he was like 12
Not many people will understand this. Lol hilarious.
This is hilarious and he does look like that kid
@@crowjones78 i would disagree theres barely a resemblance
@@zillobeast5257thanks guy that takes everything literally
@@russsnyder2026 your welcome guy that cant take criticism on his jokes
Here is the thing. Baseball is such a unique sport. You can have all the skill and talent in the world, but Postseason Baseball is different. If a lower seed catches lightening in during the wildcard they can ride it all the way to the World Series. MLB should definitely expand the postseason, and decrease the amount of games being played. Baseball is magical. I say this as a millennial.
I absolutely agree. I'm glad MLB already has expanded the postseason this year. The Phillies were a 6th Seed! Under previous rules, they wouldn't be there. 🤷♂️☺️
I see your point but I feel it waters down the post season. I’m all for fewer games though. It’s a money grab. There’s 162 because they can not because it’s best for the sport. Football is now 17 games I believe but each nfl game is so much more important than a baseball game but if football owners could get 162 they would 😆. It’s just not physically possible. Always get to see the starting qb unless hurt. I’d love to see each baseball team have just one starting pitcher or two. Would be cool but can’t because of so many games
They've already expanded the post season about as far as they can without making it just a participant trophy. We have a total of 12 of the 30 teams in the postseason, 10 if you discount the wc. So you already have at least 1/3rd & almost 1/2 of the league in it. Expanding post season will do nothing but make the post season less special and entertaining. And why decrease games? I've never heard a valid argument or answer as to why 162 reg season games is bad. I think a lot of these opinions are coming from basketball /football fans who want a faster game & a quicker road to the post season like in those sports but baseball isn't the same thing & any diehard baseball fan will tell you that. Ppl need to stop trying to turn baseball into something it's not bc the more and more changes they make towards ideas like yours the more it losses its identity & the uniqueness you say you love about it
@@TunableFall662
Because 162 games waters it down. It’s so boring when you have to wait months before games start mattering. All I hear fro April-July is “it’s still early.” Yeah and still boring too.
@@tomd1434 it's not watered down & those games do matter. Every year teams make or lose a post season run by just a few games. The only reason games "don't matter" or aren't entertaining is bc you don't watch them. What you guys are asking for is essentially is to only have a post season. Football fans don't ask for that, basketball fans don't ask for that bc as fans of the sport you recognize the importance & entertainment of regular season games. You guys want to change baseball into something else bc you're not a fan so I don't see why you can't either get into baseball as the game it is or just don't. Baseball fans aren't trying to change football just so we like it. Some of yall just aren't into baseball unless it's playoffs & that's fine, watch just the playoffs but stop trying to take away the things we love about this game just bc it doesn't fit what you like.
the problem is that they play 500 games a season
The issue is it’s to hard to get into. Even to watch your local team you need cable or you need to buy expensive packages, but I feel for myself and everyone else I’ve seen, once you do buy it and start watching it it’s addicting. I had a baseball game going at my house and my friend who never knew anything about baseball came over and saw it and immediately got addicted. It’s a great sport to be able to play a videogame, cook, clean, and do much more things while watching it
His voice is like a cheese grater to my ears.
Shapiro 🤓
I want to slap him so badly
Maybe you understand things too slowly to pick up on them
so Ben Is for kicking 10 billionaires out of business? wa wa whaaaaat.
He’s kind of right though there are some teams say the Oakland As that should probably be removed from the league. And even in 2002 there were supposed to be two teams the twins and the expos.
His mind must just be racing 24/7, that or he’s somehow smoking crack in between sentences. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone talk so fast naturally.
It's not naturally. It's on Adderall probably IR 30mg 2x a day.
@@RyanDMoore - And you know this…how? I definitely agree he’s probably on some sort of amphetamine, but knowing his exact dosage would be strange. If he’s on Adderall IR he must be crushing them and snorting them, because otherwise even that’s not enough for how much he’s racing….that or maybe he’s just such a narcissist that he gets high on his own farts - he was Editor in Chief of Breitbart after all! He’s also a huge bigot, and proud of it.
A lot of it also has to deal with the really horrible distribution of star players
When all your most marketable players play on the coasts, it’s hard to have the sport grow
St Louis is a long ways from the coasts with two of the most (now retired) marketable players in the game. But your issue is one of population not strictly geography. Small market teams are small market teams but mlb has tried to address that with salary restrictions that aren't quite as effective as NFL but they're working on it
Well yeah imagine wanting to live in Kansas City or Pittsburg lmao. As a matter of fact, I think this is why central teams haven’t been relevant since… no seriously when have they been relevant? Pirates won a few chips fifty years ago , Kansas City had one good year. But none of these teams have had steamroll rosters like the Astros
@@TheIcecreamtaco the cardinals and the Cleveland guardians were just in the playoffs ..the Chicago cubs won the world series not to long ago either all Midwest teams
@@aaroncarl2493 well yeah, a central team has to be in the playoffs every year. That’s how that works. But notice they build these super teams for one year and then fall off the face of the earth. The management doesn’t know what to do when they have a winning team
@@TheIcecreamtaco 2 things:
1. Midwest teams suffer the most without a salary cap, since they usually are the teams that have a lower payroll due to a lower budget.
2. A much bigger problem: Baseball organizations have the same problem as football of creating a team that can maintain success over a long period of time: there's a lot more players to maintain. The Astros are a model organization when it comes to just having an endless supply of talent due to excellent player development, but many franchises (*cough cough* Detroit) have no clue what they're doing when it comes to player development. The Tigers just built a team that splurged on a few free agents but had little in their farm system. So they were out of competition within 3-4 years. Even a west coast powerhouse like the Angels have the same problem.
The “perfect game” is where you watch two men play catch.
now we need to see him fight a baseball
Ben should look into how fast Bob Feller was throwing in the 50s!
What he means is the how hard guys throw overall. Yes, you had guys in the late 50's and early 60's like Koufax, Feller, Sutton, Spahn etc. But they were massive outliers, the average velocity was way below 95 like now. I guarantee you guys from the 50's wouldn't even bat 250 now because they'd be facing 3 or 4 different pitchers in any given game. They simply wouldn't be able to make the adjustment.
@@andrewpestotnik5495 yeah, Feller is one of the best ever for a reason, nobody was doing it back then like they do it now
it's kinda like people who complain that the average hitter of today can't "just hit it the other way like Gwynn or Carew" like they're not some of the best contact hitters ever lol, it's apples to oranges
He knows nothing.
@@SonoftheAllfather oh he's far from a baseball analyst or anything, but he is right that talent saturation is a problem
@@andrewpestotnik5495
He's not even right about that save perhaps in an indirect sense. The problem isn't that there isn't enough talent to go around. The problem is that there is no salary cap or floor in baseball. Luxury taxes don't work. But Ben being a ruthless neoliberal, he'd likely have no problem with zero regulation and the resulting semi-monopolistic nature of certain teams in the MLB. The MLB has been basically exempt from anti-trust laws for 100 years. The NFL is far more competitive, for example, because they have both a salary floor and a salary cap. Other incentives can be woven in to inspire greater competition as well. One example is designed to prevent a team from flopping for draft picks by having a lottery system. The NBA does this with the teams that didn't make the playoffs.
When I was child, growing up with local channels only, I loved watching my team play on Saturday or Sunday because those were the only games shown on local broadcast. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to watch any sport on TV.
Ben is correct.
Ben is only half correct in his rant about baseball in this video.
@@theelephantintheroom5583 which half?
@@conureron3792 He is only correct on the small market issue and more pitchers throwing in the high 90 today than before.
@@theelephantintheroom5583 biased hes on the money here
The thing about baseball is that it does fine without being popular lol
Oddly enough you are right. It’s like a world dominating secret that only select few people know about lol
@@datl3afn1nja9 idk which is better, hearing you’re old lady tell you’re right or a random stranger in the comment section 🤔😂
@@Liltoxicfoo 🤣🤣
The problem with baseball is that it’s a slow paced game, great for the old days where people have a lot of free time on their hands but unfit for today where peoples attention span is shortened drastically by much more selection on entertainment. So it went from Americas great pastime to boring af.
This has a lot of merit. In baseballs heyday there was no TV so people either stayed home and listened to the radio or sat on the porch and talked. To do something more entertaining they went to the movies or the theater or to a baseball game. Today there are how many streaming services, cable TV with hundreds of channels and sit and scroll through Facebook or Twitter as a way to kill time.
That's like saying books are pointless because people today are too stupid to read.
@@chrisfoxwell4128 no it’s like saying fewer people read books today because there are other options of entertainment
@@albertwang6465, you seem to be under the impression that there were 3 things to do in June 1954; sit in the dark, watch TV, go to baseball game. Having 1000 different things to watch on TV doesn't mean there are 1000 more things to do, it's just one thing. Well, what about gaming? People played games, just not the same ones. Still just one thing.
People's lack of attention (in general) is their own doing. Watching 5 hours of reaction videos on CZcams is not an advancement socially or culturally and just because it's there isn't a good excuse for doing it.
@@chrisfoxwell4128 interesting, you claim people have same amount of choice of entertainment back in the day without internet? That is absolutely laughable. If that is the case, the internet would never take off like it did. You seem like one of those old heads who are skeptical of technological advancements. You are free to live in your old ways while the world would happily moving along without you.
Ben Shapiro is that dude that got picked last in every backyard/pickup game and now is ruining everyone’s day for revenge
How is he ruining everyone’s day
@@dakota2386 by squeaking continuously and acting horny all the time
Tbh yeah. He’s like way too nerdy and smart for me.
@@dakota2386 he gives stupid people the chance to think they’re making an intellectual take on a subject. And he’s just a little prick. Would you wanna have a beer with him is the biggest question you can ask of a man.. and the answer for ben is a resounding no.
@@T0mat0_S0up bro u hurt my feelings, ben shapiro is my idol
I lean more towards the issue being the amount of games in the season. You basically don't have any meaningful games until the last stretch in September and then the playoffs. Take the nfl for example, with only 17 games each one is meaningful to the outcome of your season and with it only being 1 a week you're fan base always turns in to that 1 game, while with baseball I miss probably a good 120 of my team's games each year. And then with the nfl playoffs, basically each game is a win or go home game 7. Baseball is just stretched to thin with 162 games/year
I can’t ever see it changing. Even 100 years ago they were playing not much less games.
No salary cap makes the league unfair and city's without high market rarely have teams that succeed
ESPN does not cover MLB enough....... * NHL has enter the chat
I hear about the flyers way more than the Phillies
MLS still trying to log on
When I was about 12 years old I had baseball cards for every starting player on every team in the American league .now I couldn't even name one player on each team
It's called growing up.
@@ellie-kc4kj what a shame it is
Ooh shit, were the brewers still in the AL when you were twelve?
Prolly cuz u lost interest
@@ConnorSimonis Yes, they were.
And the Astros were in the national league.
Best of all, there were no inter league games!!
Dudes right. Baseball dipped in popularity as soon as ESPN stopped covering it every morning. They switched to non-stop NBA and NFL talk. Sadly, the media owns your likes and dislikes. Ye was right.
ESPN mentions baseball for 10 minutes and they go back to the nba
Really? I have seen complete shows where it's no longer mentioned at all.
Petition to make Ben Shapiro the marketing director for MLB
or just be a fan of the game…
If you can’t name at least one player from each team, you’re not a baseball fan.
The World Series starts in 2 days and there’s zero coverage. It’s week 2 of the NBA and week 7 of the NFL and that’s all that is talked about on ESPN
Very intelligent take. I had no idea Ben was a sports guy.
He also said that the world series should only be The Yankees and Dodgers since they have global acknowledgement☠️He isn't a sports guy
His speech pitch is at the highest velocity in human history.
Lawd.
Shapiro's Vocal Velocity rivals Chapman at his peak.
First Ballott HOF'er.
I can’t stand watching baseball on TV unless it’s the post-season
Yeah we know, that’s what happens when you have the attention span of a squirrel and the brain of a hamster 😂
Still the best sport EVER...just my opinion. As a Braves fan since the womb, I was lucky enough to be able to watch the Braves on T.V every single day, as was all of America. Hence the nickname "America's Team."
Their needs to either be a salary cap or a salary floor, the reason baseball is dying is because only the big market teams get the star players for the most part. The problem is that modern day mlb contracts are so large that only big city teams can actually acquire these players so I think a salary cap would really help level the playing field
Is Ahaheim a big city team? They got probably the two best stars in the league currently
@@Lamont15 Yes, they are in one of the largest markets in the league and signed, at the time (n9t sure currently), the largest TV deal ever.
Salary floor is even more crucial because literally all owners care about, fact not opinion, is having a positive profit margin. They don’t care about baseball
Can’t get away from this guy
Good. Maybe you’ll learn a thing or two.
@@gargantuangoose9098 kook
@@gargantuangoose9098 How badly do you want to b/low Shapiro? I bet you fantasize about it
@@skoden1313 he’s only 5’7, no thanks. Gotta be 6’1 + to even warrant a discussion.
The problem with baseball is people's attention span. Casuals want a 11-10 slugfest but they don't realize that's going to take 4 hours. You get two guys throwing a no-hitter they'll find it boring but that game will go by so much faster. The best thing we can do is raise our children to play baseball and they will love baseball
Angel Canez, you are LITERALLY the first and so far only other person I've seen articulate the great conundrum. There is no way to make a Baseball game shorter by increasing the offense. And nobody seems to get it. I just ignore all the fucking dipshit idiots who want to make drastic changes like contracting teams, reducing amount of innings, and number of games played to "make it more watchable". But they're idiots. Baseball just works, it always has and always will. There's always gonna be the drooling simpletons who can't quite understand it and want to change it to please their neanderthal sensibilities. Baseball has it's TRUE fans and that's all it needs. It continues to grow and thrive. And I like it that way.
Ben sounds like the fast voice after a radio commercial is explain the deal to fast😂😂😂
Pitchers haven't gotten faster. Today they record the speed of the ball right as it comes out of the pitchers hands. They didn't have that tech 20 years ago. They used to have to use those guns that recorded the speed at the plate.
Air pressure and gravity slow the ball down over that distance.
Adjusting for the difference Nolan Ryan is still the fastest pitcher of all time. His fastest pitch would be 106+ on today's radars. Blowing away Aroldis Chapman.
Why are some you bashing Ben? And baseball? Apparently some of don't know what you are talking about. Tell me how many of you actually played or watched a real game? I don't mean the kind where you sit on your behind, look at monitor, manipulate a controller. Pretend, make believe, fake, lazy, turn you into obese couch potatoes. Ben's assessment of baseball is for the most part is correct. With too many teams the talent pool gets stretched and thins out. The comment about baseball being more talented today, maybe partially right. Players today may be more conditioned, have better injury treatment & rehabilition, better sports science. Remember these points. Players from the past were pure raw talent, shorter seasons, more great players, mental & physical strength, without a past there would be no present or a future.etc. But throwing a ball harder does not make a pitcher. Pitching is knowing the hitters, throwing different types of pitches, off speed, out thinking the hitter (Oh, thinking is bad thing today, just look at politics). Throwing hard also might make a pitchers arm to go bad faster. Ruin a career. The general negative comments about baseball are just wrong. The game is boring? Perhaps. But blaming an external object is not the problem. It may be you. Not knowing the game plays a big part. Baseball (softball too) is a thinking persons game. Especially if playing. The hitter guesses where the pitch will go, what kind of pitch, whether to swing or let it go. Pitchers has to think what the hitter will hit, what kind of pitch to throw, etc. Baserunners how much of lead-off to take, when will the pitcher pick-off throw to the base, think how outs there are. Defense where will the ball will go, how many outs, where the runners are, how many outs, what base to throw for an out These are just a few. Now watching a game in person. Anything can happen in a game at anytime. Bring a radio to listen to the game (When Vin Scully Dodger sportscaster called the game). Watch and listen to the sights & sounds. Score the game. Be a part of it, not just a seat filler who payed a lot of money, just to sit or even socialize you can do that elsewhere.
I think Ben is only half correct.The past gave us the very best and most talented players so far: Babe Ruth, CY Young, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, DiMaggio, Ted Williams, L. Gerigh, Carl Y, J. Robinson, Koufax, Nolan Ryan, Rod Carew, Charlie Hustle, just to name a few. More pitchers throwing in the high 90 today are not more talented than the pitchers from the past that I mention here.
And yes Baseball is a critical thinking sport and more often than not people don't like a brain exercise. Most people don't know that Baseball relies heavily on statistics and probability. Why a manager decides to bring a relieve pitcher with a 6.38 ERA to face the batting leader of the league with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th, and up 2-1 on the score board, instead of going to his closer with a 1.78 ERA? Well, the manager made the decision based on statistics and probability as the slugger likely has struck out 4/6 and reached base only one time against the pitcher. I enjoy it because It is a thinking game about numbers and probability.
"I was such a nerd when I was a kid that I could name the starting lineup of every player. Now I, Ben Shapiro, cannot name a single player. That proves that the MLB isn't reaching the average baseball fan, proves that you should take me as an authority on baseball."
Nice strawman. Now, you wanna counter his actual argument or make yourself look worse to people who can actually separate political beliefs from sports opinions?
@@anonymousperson3023 rofl😂
ESPN only focuses on the Yankees, the Dodgers, and sometimes the Mets and cubs.
ESPN doesn't even focus on baseball at all!
ESPN sucks dick. If there isn't a racially charged/woke angle to it, they don't give a fuck about it. They only put their shit-paws back on Hockey to try to lessen the "whiteness" of it. Mark my words. They'll never outright admit it, but we all know it's true. And It's so sad too, Because the ESPN of the mid 90s - mid 2000s was just awesome.
The steroid era was the best
Brains would melt if you got Ben and Tony Kahn in the same room
The central divisons were horrible this season. Baseball is alive and well in southern California with the padres and dodgers. I also get to go watch legend superstar shohei ohtani wherever hes pitching at angels stadium. I love baseball right now. Much better than basketball.
Ryen Russillo said when they talked about baseball during ESPN shows, the ratings plummeted. National coverage for baseball is a hard sell for companies
MLB needs to have promotion and relegation with the minors. Best 2-4 teams in minors move to the MLB and worst 2-4 MLB teams move to the minors. It will never happen but itd be cool to see
It should promote/relegate as they have decimated the number of teams in the farm system.
Well 99% of players in the MLB are better then Minor League players. That's why they are there. One day they might be good enough. But that day hasn't came yet.
Also the worst mlb team would destroy in the minors which then they'd be right back in the MLB.
The minor leagues are feeders for the major leagues, baseball doesn’t even slightly work or could work that way
You know absolutely nothing about baseball😂
Europeans and soccer fans solution to every problem in American sports is "add pro/rel." As if that's some magic cure-all. European soccer leagues have pro/rel and the same 1 or 2 teams still win every year, while promoted teams go down again, so how does that solve anything?
ESPN top 10 plays is dominant by baseball everyday during the season even during this time of year where every major sport is playing
Those are a handful of plays out of 120 hours of games in a day give or take
Your talking a total of 2 minutes of 100+ hours
@@camark0819 do you guys even watch sports center I’m watching it right now and I’m seeing highlights of the baseball games today with some coverage of the playoff coming up
@@Loki_Leftist 10 baseball games last night going into playoffs vs 3 pac 12 football games?
@@camark0819 I didn’t count how many highlights they showed compared to other sports but they talk about baseball and I’ll be fair I think they should talk about baseball more on the debate/talk shows such as first take or get up ect
He could probably name the rosters when he was a kid because he had time to pay attention, it’s just growing up not a problem with the game
Baseball utterly destroyed with facts and logic. But first, ExpressVPN
“Oh man, the world’s biggest virgin can’t name a starting player for the Pirates. Better remove 20 teams from the league and start giving guys nicknames like “Scoops McCoy” again because, as we all know, Ben Sha🅱️iro is the one person most in touch with what’s popular.” - Rob Manfred
What killing Baseball is analytics and the three true outcomes approach. This is coming from a data scientist. It takes all the fun out of baseball.
Killing small ball in order to simplify and increase the spectacle part of the sport by only covering and encouraging those 3. Problem is the nature of the sport will never be able to make it a spectacle life they are hoping
Banning the shift and bigger bases should help. It’s an iffy thing because people want to see homeruns though, they’re fun
Whaddyaknow...I finally agree with Shapiro over something.
And especially that finally point ..the dramatic imbalance of coverage by ESPN.
I was just saying this...
Not only baseball, but every sport.
ESPN is the death curse of sports.
No. Ben just stopped following it like he did when he was a kid. As a Houstonian baseball is alive and well. When the hometown team is good there’s nothing better than baseball.
This guy just needs everyone to think he knows all about everything
First person I ever heard fit 2 hours worth of content into a 1 minute short. Slow down, he sounds like an educated Donny from the Wild Thornberry’s
Sounds like he just outgrew his interest which happens. But you can’t say it’s completely failing because you don’t know anything about it anymore. I think the average baseball fan knows at least 1-3 stars on every team.
He makes a lot of good points but i blame the decline of baseball on the decline of the intelligence of society
Ben Shapiro has never played a game in his life.
Jocks don't run franchises or businesses. Those days are over. These nerdy guys think outside of the box and hopefully improve the situations
@@josephthebobcat5085 Shapiro is a pseudo nerd. He's the type of guy that if he owned a pharma company and his company made the only medication for the treatment of some rare disease, he would jack up the price to where it would be unaffordable for 90% of the people who needed it.
He is exactly right AGAIN
No he isn't. He said a couple points right about baseball and a couple points where he is wrong.
@@theelephantintheroom5583 which ones was he wrong about?
@@neftaliesanchez8304 correlation and causation. He correlates the fact that he can't name a player on a team now, but could as a kid, which means that baseball has a problem marketing. Is that a correct assessment? When he was a kid, I am sure there were plenty of adults that could not name a player on a team, just like there are plenty of kids today that can name players on every team. Adulting is hard, there are other things he is interested in which takes his time.
@@vu7419 I like your answer it's a cause, but the marketing is the worst out of all major sports in the US. It also doesn't help that the best player in the last decade (Trout) is doesn't want to be recognized as the face. Hopefully Julio, Othani, Acuña take that mantle from him next year and baseball would be in a better place because they're way more marketable. Nothing on Trout great player, but MLB wasted their time trying to promote him when clearly he didn't want to be promoted as the face.
Ben's yarmulke in that brief bit where he's playing the violin in childhood is beautiful. I'm really impressed with the details.
Local blackouts destroy local fan base which destroys baseball.
Bruh I hate when people make fun of the sport I play
Throwing a fast fastball doesn't make a pitcher better.
Let's just say it baseball was better with PED's
What he’s arguing for is promotion/relegation… and the Pirates definitely need to be relegated
Unfortunately you're right. The Buccos are my #2 team and sadly they are the best case for relegation in the 4 Major Sports. Their last World Series win was in 1979, I was born in 1981 and I'm certain that I will live the entirety of my life without seeing them win a World Series Championship.
Name one thing he hasn’t “destroyed” 😂
Who asked the geek about sports
Lol
dude just unironically said geek
I think the host of the show asked him...
He literally owns this show lol
@@joshk3856 how else would you describe this "man"?
Baseball killed itself. Priced itself too high in everyway.
The problem is the game starts at noon on a damn Wednesday and the late game starts at 8 and ends at freaking 8
The biggest problem with baseball is the lack of a salary cap! It pretty much guarantees that teams that are worth way more like the Yankees and Dodgers in the bigger markets, will always outbid teams like my Orioles for the top talent, unless like finally my Orioles got a GM that knows how to draft so we’re finally lookin like we’ll be competitive!!
“DeStRoYs BaSeBaLl!” Proceeds to pull anecdotal BS from his ass
That's not what anecdotal means
Said the dude who doesnt even know what anecdotal means
@@thatleftyjames2893 Anecdotal: (of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.
Typical conservative moron
@@Moops311 And what "personal accounts" was Ben talking about?
It’s actually insane cause he really said absolutely nothing in this clip
Think about this… when there were 24 teams prior to the 1977 expansion of Toronto and Seattle, there 120 starting pitchers. Prior to 1969 there were 20 teams and 100 starting pitchers. And before the 1961 and 1962 expansions there were 16 teams and 80 starting pitchers. Now there are 30 teams and 150 starting pitchers.
Where did the 149th best starting pitcher play in 1958? The 149th best starting pitcher in baseball would have been lucky to make it to Triple A baseball. Now the 149th best starting pitcher is the 5th pitcher on a starting rotation on a MLB team.
The talent is diluted to the point where Double A players make it to the Major Leagues because more roster spots are available.
•Too many games
•Slow paced games
•Not enough big stars
•Becoming a niche sport
The biggest problem w baseball when it comes to player recognition is free agency
Baseball needs to get away from this garbage about being emotionless and stoic. Let them celebrate and showboat, which leads them to attract a younger audience. If people don't like bat flips then your pitcher needs to be better and vice versa
He said so much without saying absolutely nothing at all. We are back at square one
did we watch the same video? his points are well defined 😊
Baseball is a local or regional sport very similar to soccer in Europe at all levels. But I do agree they do t market their players well enough and ESPN gives very small attention to it which is pitiful.
The MLB has been a business and lost its integrity along time ago and there are way too many teams. This season is too long and it’s all about making money but there’s definitely not enough talent to go around. They’ve diluted it to the point that they have to use super balls
You clearly have no clue wtf you’re talking about. Explain these so called “super balls.” Please. Because MLB deadened the baseball this year as a matter of fact. There’s PLENTY of talent to go around
The issue with baseball is you play 100+ games and will play on a Tuesday at 2:30 pm and if you don't show up you can't watch the damn game
The problem with baseball is that it’s fucking boring. 90% of the game is two guys playing catch. 7% is when a guy hits the ball and runs around the bases but doesn’t go anywhere. The other 3% are the teams swapping places at the tops and bottoms of each inning.
Ngl he’s saying truthful shit😂
So, assuming you Googled images for “concentration” and Apple Juice came up and were like, yep that’ll work.
Someone who’s never touched a field and or played sports shouldn’t give advice or opinions
Sadly the reason they don't cover baseball on ESPN as much as they used to is they don't think it's diverse enough it doesn't fit the narrative ESPN/disney is trying to push. Which is wild because it has Chinese, Korean, Japanese,black, white, Latino you name it baseball is super diverse. I played ball for almost 30 years and I know it's hard for some people who don't know the sport well to watch. But I promise you if you get to see a game live whether it's a heated rival or coming down to the wire for playoffs the games are a blast.
The problem with the MLB is it does not have enough Black American players. In generations past, many of the most popular figures in the MLB where Black Americans. They were not only great players, but they were also charismatic, exciting.
You had Reggie Jackson, Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey Jr., Ozzie Davis, Barry Bonds, Ricky Henderson, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Dwight Gooden, Tony Gwynn, Eddie Murray, Dave Whitfield, Andre Dawson, Kirby Puckett, Tim Raines, Jim Rice, Joe Carter, George Foster, Cecil Fielder,.etc.
Some of these Black major leaguers were considered to be heroes, some villains. So regardless of how fans felt about them, they couldn't keep their eyes off of them.
Black American athletes bring a unique, compelling energy and perspective to sports. They bring style, drama, excitement.
Black men also connect with other elements of American culture in ways that others do not: Music, fashion, social media, politics.
If the MLB is truly interested in bringing baseball back to the forefront of American sports and entertainment, the league would invest in baseball programs in Black communities, schools, and other extracurricular programs.
The hats are just too big for his head
The concentration of talent comes from not the abundance of teams, but from the lack of monetary control
The lack of balance in national coverage makes it hard to keep up with Major League Baseball as a whole. Today, MLB's network television partners intentionally and severely limit their coverage to the same handful of teams year after year after year. I grew up with the Saturday Game of the Week and some Monday Night Baseball. Back then, the networks would make sure that even the non-contenders would get at least a little of the limelight.
They don’t want people falling asleep before the paid commercial break
Look at it this way, I can't watch the rangers on local TV without buying a cable package despite living less than 10 minutes from the ball park. That's what's killing it.
You can't say pitchers threw slower in the 60s. Nolan Ryan was inaccurately clocked at 101 in the 70s and now is recognized as throwing over 108.
that’s one guy not literally everyone, also ryan overrated
Juiced balls, pitcher clock, and uneven distribution of top talent really have hurt the games enjoyability.