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by jomamaxx 3522 days ago
Not quite. Baseball is not 'hot' but that does not mean it doesn't have a solid fanbase.

The median age of 'human beings' in America is climbing :)

Here's one example: home teams getting amazing ratings:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2016/07/19/with-2016-...

You'd be surprised at how some of these sports have huge fab-bases without the Kardashian media noise.

Media is changing just as much as anything, and this is a key factor. NYPost/NYT have to keep up to Buzzfeed. ESPN has to keep up with Netflix/online viewership.

Sports will have a harder time because the contracts are locked up and hard to access - whereas an upstart in Film/TV can come along and disrupt.