Baseball Doesn’t exist: gladiator battle spectating and baseball park fun spectacle
The YouTuber Baseball Doesn’t Exist uploaded a video discussing the extremes baseball owners will go for fans to come to the games. Some were ludicrous but this has grown to amusement park levels. Baseball games have gone beyond the game for merely profit and fun.
The range of activities surmised by owners to bankroll their games is incredible. Whatever it takes to get fans to buy tickets. Baseball games have become an amusement park. A theatrical performance only heightened by its additions. Whether that be free hot dog day or race against the mascot. The goal of these additions is to add more to baseball than just the baseball play. There needs to be more than just the gameplay. How to get non-baseball fans to come to a baseball game is to add not baseball elements. Giving all sorts of giveaways and carnival features makes the spectacle less about the gameplay and more about the experience. The game is for the resilient few who enjoy the game but many are awaiting the intermission. They can’t wait for the bottom of the inning. The precious moments before the batter enters the batter’s box. He is check swinging off to the side and the first baseman is hurling grounders for the shortstop to relay over. All this is happening and fans are looking elsewhere. They are preoccupied with the fun that is ensuing. The theatre that has emerged from its hiding place to entertain them.
NBA fans can’t wait for the timeout to end. They’d rather the dance team not do their thing. They’ll cheer for the million dollar shot but anxiously await the gameplay. The sport is focused upon. The gameplay is nourished. Many fans are in it for the game. They see celebrities sitting court-side and desire better seats to be near their idols. The game is fast, there is little time with exception of halftime to rest. Halftime is to chill, refill and use the loo. A time to recompose. The same is with football. The gameplay, the gladiator might is concentrated. Fans can’t wait until halftime ends. When will the game be back on. Less games means more expensive tickets and the physicality is enjoyable. There is more action and aggression. Baseball is a long season and little physicality. It is more a posh sport that would be played in England. A sport of upper-class suit wearing tycoons than unpolished razing athletes. It is a game of skill and coordination not athletic superiority and ferociousness. Its lackadaisical weekday outing drawn out season is too much to follow or enjoy. There is just too much to care. Inform when the playoffs begin to tune in.
Given its procedure, the sport could have shortened the season but that would undermine America’s past time. Stubbornness and pride maintained despite the erosive character of the sport. Owners were forced to act in the name of the sport. How to get more people to not only watch but come to the stadium. What can the stadium provide that television couldn’t. There are so many games why come to each one. Well because at this game there would be this give away. All types of creative ideas. To inspire fans to enjoy. The die hards were dwindling so how to appeal to those who didn’t care so much. Instead of trying to inspire newfound love into the sport, the owners took a more devilish route. They tried to acquire those non-fans with zero connection to baseball to come. It was immense work but it was effective. All different acrobatic events enticed people to come. Sometimes they got out of hand but people came. People enjoyed the unique experience provided at baseball stadiums. It wasn’t for the game but for the experience at the game.
In time, they have not only catered to those non-fans but to fan’s families. What if your wife isn’t a fan? What if your child is bored? There is a waterslide, video game room, a bar. All sorts of options to keep you coming to the game. Bring your family, there always something for them to do. Even if you are bored there is a place to relax elsewhere. There are many options to choose from. Keep coming and we’ll keep you engaged and entertained. This brilliant tactic has changed the perception of theme. It has some similarities with universities adding expensive non-academic facilities whether a pool or a lounge. Enticing prospective students to enjoy the university beyond the academics. While it began as a nice benefit, it becomes the centre of a decision. The same is with baseball, the aesthetic beyond the gameplay is preferred by a large amount of fans. It is the entertainment that exceeds the game itself. Baseball games are not only about the game. The sequences the points. For some that matters yet for others it is engrossment in other additions.
Interest is not fuelled by desire for the gameplay but for the extracurriculars. For the entertainment that lies outside the game. Whether that be on the field, in the stands or in a different wing of the stadium. Such doesn’t matter because it is in the complex. It is a part of the stadium. It is as if a family went to the mall and while the sister went shopping, the youngest was roaming around in the jungle gym and the elder brother went for a ride on the roller coaster all the while mom went to buy groceries. There is something for everybody even dad could go catch a movie if he grew bored. The mall has everything. Something for everybody. The baseball stadium is the preoccupation of the fan but other non-fans can find enjoyment there two. It has become its own mall. A complex that has surrounded the intended spectacle with other enjoyable features. Even spicing up the normative experience for non-fans to enjoy. To partake in the festivities over the sporting occasion. It is but providing the joy for the spectator in all sorts of ways.
It’s truly a marvel of modern allocation. No hypermarket but a supermarket with traces of extra goodies. A place with its intended entertainment only to find more twists and turns to grab attention. In the YouTubers own name, baseball doesn’t exist. It is merely a fictitious creation of play-by-play dotted lines. There is some figures encircling the bases, a ball whacked with a bat. Yet that is for the insiders. Many see the advertisement and quickly lower their gaze to the bottom. Where is the freebee? What are they offering now? The new aesthetic grabs interest. The game is in the background. Listening to the radio. Cool but of no real consequence. This slide though, the hotdogs come on. The aesthetic is the focus. The feature is the joy. Baseball is a figment of action. Theatre kids directed in a slow dance. Old people can watch it but the entertainment is in the fun stuff. In the absurdities and actionable elements. Don’t focus too much on the game. That is but an echo to the non-fan. It is the rest that is endearing. The experience of all else outside the game.
Baseball owner’s galvanised interest in purchasing tickets. Producing new aesthetics entices the experience even if there is engagement with the game. It is but background noise. Something to look at periodically. The stadium is a mall with so much to see. Spend a few moments watching and then spend the rest endorsing the entertainment. It is a spectacle of cheerful enjoyment for the whole family.
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