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<v 0>All right, Andy, this one is going to be directed to you.</v>

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Bob gave it love for y'all that add in on this. So guys,

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between everything we did talk about lower TV ratings, slower games,

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potential lockout. Andy,

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do you think that baseball is going in the right direction?

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<v 1>I think it continues to go in the same direction, right?</v>

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Where it's not as big as football is not as big as basketball.

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It's continuing to slide down a little bit. The regular season is so long.

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People just lose casual fans, lose interest in it,

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but what they have going for them, uh,

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is that their playoffs are some of the most exciting playoffs in all sports. Uh,

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you can go a whole regular season while watching much games,

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and then every pitch of every playoff game you can be glued to. So that's good.

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And they're also making billions of dollars still in TV revenue.

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So like they're not going to be conservative if ratings are down in this world

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series because the billions of dollars is still out there.

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So I think baseball continues to go down at the same line. Uh,

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I think they need a new commissioner to kind of turn things around and make

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things better because as long as the current commissioner is in charge,

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like it's just not a good path, but I think they are where they are.

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<v 2>I think it's definitely at a crossroads. I mean, look,</v>

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we're in a world where it's the NFL and everything else, you know,

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the NFL can go to a 22 game season and people will gobble it up. You know,

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they can't have too much inventory. And so you're, you're left to wonder, okay,

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what, how much is enough for,

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for the rest of the sports and baseball is slipping.

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It needs to kind of dig in and, and make a stand a little bit. Uh, yeah,

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going radical. I don't think is the way to go.

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I think they could definitely tweak a lot of things and make the game a little

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more aesthetically pleasing. Uh I'm with Andy, the playoffs are great.

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I think the current format, I think we've talked about this here before.

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It's pretty much perfect. So watering it down with,

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with more teams to make more money. Not sure if that's the way to go either,

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but uh, I think they'll figure it out. Uh, but I think there,

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there may be an adjustment in terms of, uh, you know,

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how much cultural currency do you have and how much do you need? You know,

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that's the biggest kind of question facing them going forward.

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<v 3>Yeah. They need to change it. I mean, it was it's going backwards. I mean,</v>

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the games are again so long, they got to have a pitch clock.

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So I think we'll see a pitch clock in next, you know, two years here, you have,

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you have to do that. You know, they got to get more action in the field.

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You know, you go, you know, 10, 15 minutes without seeing anything happened. So,

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you know, that's why I pay abstain. You know,

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the former president of the Cubs is involved here.

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Just trying to get more action back in the game.

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There are so many former players. I refuse to watch baseball. Now.

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It says it's not the same game. Um,

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it was a USANA poll recently with the generation X, uh,

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w had baseball, the six most favorite sport, you know, that's,

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that's tough to see.