Again, agree to disagree JD...you can keep bringing up NBA and WNBA all you want. LMK when this pro softball hot ticket gets funded with nobody in the seats and barely any audience for any TV game
And since you keep bringing up the NBA and WNBA,
1) There are 12 WNBA team owners, whose teams collectively own 50% of the WNBA. The other 50% of the WNBA is owned, collectively, by the 30 NBA owners, through a company called "WNBA Holdings." So, the NBA basically owns the WNBA and makes money off it so it
would benefit from it making money...so the NBA DOES make money if the WNBA does well. Attendance, merchandise...yada yada.
2) NBA and WNBA are inherently the same game, where as baseball is not softball. If you can get a young woman to go
to a WNBA game who hasnt been to any basketball games or start watching the WNBA because she plays basketball or likes
it...there is a darn good chance she will become a fan of an NBA team and attend a game, buy merchandise..yada yada. Bingo, thats
where the money is.
This is not the same thing for baseball and softball. You might convince a young girl who likes to play softball to finally go to a
softball game or watch it...BUT...if she didnt like MLB or watch it before, she still wont go to a baseball game or buy anything
baseball related just because she went to see a pro softball game. Same thing for her parents, they could care less about
baseball. So it does nothing for MLB to pay for pro softball. And worse yet, you may actually lose a family on a Saturday
that may go to a softball game instead of your main product that pays the bills...MLB baseball.
MLB would be getting jack squat for their money investment.
And still, fact of the matter, softball girls dont even want to watch pro softball. So you think they are gonna buy jerseys of
pro softball players or any merchandise much yet tickets to watch it.
And since you keep bringing up the NBA and WNBA,
1) There are 12 WNBA team owners, whose teams collectively own 50% of the WNBA. The other 50% of the WNBA is owned, collectively, by the 30 NBA owners, through a company called "WNBA Holdings." So, the NBA basically owns the WNBA and makes money off it so it
would benefit from it making money...so the NBA DOES make money if the WNBA does well. Attendance, merchandise...yada yada.
2) NBA and WNBA are inherently the same game, where as baseball is not softball. If you can get a young woman to go
to a WNBA game who hasnt been to any basketball games or start watching the WNBA because she plays basketball or likes
it...there is a darn good chance she will become a fan of an NBA team and attend a game, buy merchandise..yada yada. Bingo, thats
where the money is.
This is not the same thing for baseball and softball. You might convince a young girl who likes to play softball to finally go to a
softball game or watch it...BUT...if she didnt like MLB or watch it before, she still wont go to a baseball game or buy anything
baseball related just because she went to see a pro softball game. Same thing for her parents, they could care less about
baseball. So it does nothing for MLB to pay for pro softball. And worse yet, you may actually lose a family on a Saturday
that may go to a softball game instead of your main product that pays the bills...MLB baseball.
MLB would be getting jack squat for their money investment.
And still, fact of the matter, softball girls dont even want to watch pro softball. So you think they are gonna buy jerseys of
pro softball players or any merchandise much yet tickets to watch it.
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