Does Major League Baseball just not want fans? It's crazy. It's like they are trying to make it hard for me to care about their sport.
Baseball is the sport of history. There is nothing more sacred in American sports than baseball and all it's given us throughout the decades. MLB baseball has been around for somewhere around 150 years. Seriously, it's been over a century. And with more than a century of homeruns and no-hitters, MLB has a foothold on creating epic narratives over time.
Understanding this, we would think Major League Baseball would pull out all the stops for their Hall of Fame Ceremony. The baseball hall of fame, is basically the original hall of fame. Nothing is more historic than the MLB Hall of Fame...
And yet, it's obvious that MLB didn't care at all if we watched the 2021 Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Why so obvious you say??
Because they put it on tv in the middle of the day. Yea, a time when NOBODY could watch it. MLB started the 2021 ceremony... a ceremony that had to skip a year because of COVID... a ceremony inducting DEREK FREAKING JETER... and stuck on at 1:30 in the afternoon.
WHAT?
In the middle of a workday?!?!
In the middle of a work week?!?!
AFTER the holiday?!?!
What on earth were they thinking?
The MLB Hall of Fame Ceremony should feel more like the ESPYs and less like a company picnic. I love that fans are there and able to participate. But let the fans be part of a much more posh, elegant and opulent event. Hell even the WWE dresses everyone up for their fake hall of fame. And MLB has people outside in the sun in the middle of the day?
Even if you want to justify the outdoor setting as a COVID precaution. We still can't excuse the time of day.
Sure, the ratings for this probably aren't the highest. But you aren't going to grow the ratings by making the start time, right after my lunch break on a Wednesday.
Yea I know, we could all stream it to our phones if we really wanted to, but the time of day, the setting, and the lackadaisical disposition of the whole event has me convinced, MLB isn't trying to grow it's fan base in any real way.