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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>On 2026-05-18, SpallsHurgenson(NG) wrote:
>>[...]
>>> Although you know what they say about polls and statistics. Still, it's 
>>> fairly clear that baseball no longer has the same pull on the national 
>>> consciousness that it once did.
>>
>>
>>I guess you could say people are getting rain checks on baseball?
>
> They cannot afford tickets.   The prices are ridiculous; a family
> of four might pay $500 to attend a single game (more or less depending
> on the seat and concessions).
>
> On the other hand, baseball is popular in much of latin america,
> and massively popular in Japan and Korea.

Baseball is growing back in the US. TV viewership is up. The game was losing
interest due to intense time wasting on the mound. but changes with the
pitch timer among other things have shortened the game. Currently, a
typical game is shorter than a basketball game. I watched some early
2000s baseball and couldn't believe how long it took between
pitches. Holy shit! The 15 second pitch timer has really sped things
up. 3-5 minute innings are nice. They also shortened the ad break
between inning shifts.

My team's stadium is routely packed. So, anyway. I did baseball
currently because it's early in the season and I didn't know how long it
would take to develop it. I wanted fresh data returns with the api calls.

I've expanded my baseball triggers and getting close to done. After I
finish with that, I'll be looking at creating a huge rss news aggregator.

Soccer is in full swing so I'll get to work on that too. Rugby,
basketball and football api endpoints will all be included. Then RSS news
aggregation. Already got baseball news spitting out full stories, so
that was my test bed.

Using finger as an information service has been a hoot.

--
Daniel
sysop  | air & wave bbs
finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net

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