{"id":141618,"date":"2025-03-18T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/what-happened-to-the-american-pastime\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:36:03","slug":"what-happened-to-the-american-pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=141618","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the American pastime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs-1024x420.jpg\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176689 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176689 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Batavia-Muckdogs-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2021, Major League Baseball <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/all-42-teams-reportedly-up-for-elimination-in-mlbs-minor-league-reduction-proposal\/\">dumped 42 minor league affiliates<\/a>. Over at the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>, Will Bardenwerper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/insight\/2025\/03\/16\/major-league-baseball-will-bardenwerper\/stories\/202503160068\">notes<\/a> that New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto, with his $765,000,000 contract, \u201cwill make in ten at-bats roughly the $700,000 MLB will save annually for each minor league team they cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more:<\/p>\n<p><em>The decision to contract the minor leagues broadly reflected the philosophy espoused by New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman: \u201cBottom line is this is big business. \u2026 This should be run like a Wall Street boardroom where you pursue assets. No different than if you\u2019re in the oil industry and you want to buy some oil rigs out in the gulf.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But is this really the case? What is baseball? Is it our \u201cNational Pastime,\u201d an essential, enduring part of American life, as it has been marketed it for decades? Or is it \u2014 as the decisions made by MLB\u2019s owners and Commissioner Rob Manfred would suggest \u2014 just a business, where efficiency and profits drive all decisions, as if they were manufacturing bathtub liners or selling cement?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Does an enterprise that purports to be part of the fabric of America have a responsibility to prevent that fabric from fraying?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/insight\/2025\/03\/16\/major-league-baseball-will-bardenwerper\/stories\/202503160068\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Major League Baseball dumped 42 minor league affiliates. Over at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Will Bardenwerper notes that New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto, with his $765,000,000 contract, \u201cwill make in ten at-bats roughly the $700,000 MLB will save annually for each minor league team they cut.\u201d Here\u2019s more: The decision to contract the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[204,5346,21703,60093,20754,329],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-141618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-american","tag-baseball","tag-happened","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-pastime","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What happened to the American pastime? - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=141618\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What happened to the American pastime? - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2021, Major League Baseball dumped 42 minor league affiliates. 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