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To: DMaA who wrote (5317)	8/19/2002 12:45:51 AM
From: JayPC	Respond to of 24758

They need to give customers four hours of entertainment that makes the people want to keep coming back. They need to give customers 2.5 hours of entertainment. Regards, Jay

To: DMaA who wrote (5317)	8/20/2002 11:46:54 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

The business called Baseball competes against golf, basketball, video games, horse racing, drinking, restaurant dining, and a million other ways people keep coming up with to part people from their disposable wealth. This abstract generality which is mostly false has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Leisure entertainment is a vibrant and very free market. Leisure entertainment isn't a market. It's a generalization of markets most of which are no where near to having the characteristics of a free market. If the same two teams keep winning championships, baseball will be seen as a less desirable entertainment and loose market share to its competition. What is baseball's competition? Every thing else in the world? Your claim isn't true even superficially. A persistently winning team like the Yankees doesn't compete with the New York Giants. You're confusing the competitive market of media with that of baseball. Media doesn't compete with baseball. I know exactly what's needed. This is the view of baseball owners. They think know what will work. No they don't, and they never will know. They're pathologically antithetical to their own interest which would only be served if they were stopped by law from compromising a free market. Their tiny intellects can't accept that because like you they reason within arbitrary and artificial constraints which they think must be valid. They think that because it has become their habit. They need to give customers four hours of entertainment that makes the people want to keep coming back. What one person finds entertaining, another finds boring. Baseball can't change what will entertain. Baseball can't change what it is. No amount of manipulating and money will do that. The controlled system that has nothing in common with a free market has brought about several teams which do well, and most teams which do so-so. This results in most teams slowly going deeper in debt even while the successful team donate to them. None of this has anything to do with whatever you're trying to say. An integral part of that entertainment is not knowing the outcome of the event at the beginning. I had to read this sentence several times to make sure I hadn't missed some nuance. I hadn't. It's just stupid and not worth stating. Customers don't care how that is accomplished anymore than they care how an automobile comes to exist on a new car lot. So what? Pro baseball would be played without the media or fans. They aren't needed. A lot of years went by before baseball players got paid. What were all those guys doing playing baseball intensely if they weren't being paid and weren't being watched by a paying audience? Have you ever gone down to the park where they have a baseball diamond? In the evening there you have it, adults intensely playing baseball and not being paid, with a non-paying audience. The players and audience are just as intensely into the game as they are in the pro ranks, and all are being much more entertained.