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One of those ways that people have choices is with multiple competing soccer leagues, is there not? That may explain in and of itself why it does better. Of course, that’s a chicken and egg thing with how much the market can sustain, but there’s no one to keep MLB or the NFL in check. The NFL, I understand, does have a similar generational problem, but that could also be attributed to CTE findings.

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Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure, and I imagine that’s a big part of it too. From what I understand all professional sports are having difficulties gaining traction with the Gen Z demographic, but baseball is especially hard-hit (their recent rule changes to try and increase the pace of games may have done something to help with this, I haven’t seen any data about it).

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  From what I understand all professional sports are having difficulties gaining traction with the Gen Z demographic
  
  And they’re all doing the same nonsense with making it annoying to watch. I’m not asserting that I’m definitely right or anything. I haven’t done anything resembling actual analysis of the trend. Intuitively though, given my own experiences with the prospect of following a sport I enjoy or not, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just the leagues offering poor value to a demographic that hasn’t been locked in to the sport yet.
  
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  - Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sure, and I’m not disagreeing that being able to engage with professional sports at all is a big factor. I think there’s more at play here than just that.
    
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