Clay Jones for May 02, 2017

Those who can adapt and change survive. Expecting things to be as they were is not a sensible way to plan for the future.

Too much media, too little time. I haven’t heard of 3/4 of these before right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Anything based on subscription fees without delivering a HUGE experience for the buck is going down. ESPN quit doing that ages ago. Today’s lineup:

http://www.espn.com/espntv/onair/index?start=5-02-17-7:40-AM

Bleah. On top of which, pro sports shot itself in the foot 20 years ago, and the infection has reached massive proportions now. Selling out stadiums to corporations while allowing blackouts of home games is a guaranteed way to cause younger, less wealthy or connected people to lose interest.

Pro baseball is dying. Attendance figures are inflated for nearly all sports.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmoney/2011/05/25/how-sports-attendance-figures-speak-lies/#7b45ae792b2a

https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/economy/behind-the-numbers/us-professional-leagues-sports-and-technology.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/baseballs-trouble-with-the-youth-curve—and-what-that-means-for-the-game/2015/04/05/2da36dca-d7e8-11e4-8103-fa84725dbf9d_story.html?utm_term=.11c9bb217bfe

“Those are the sorts of issues we need to address, because the single biggest predictor of avidity in sports is whether you played as a kid.”

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/high-school/youth-participation-in-team-sports-on-the-decline.html

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/08/11/american-youth-sports-participation-drop-decline-statistics-study

By the middle of this century, pro team sports in America will be regarded as “quaint”.