Is Baseball Dying?

We take a break from our regularly scheduled NBA-questioning to address a different sport with worse problems. A subscriber asked me if baseball is dying. Without beating around the bush, the answer is “yes.” Baseball is still very much here and lucrative (for now). Shohei Ohtani appears to be legally in the clear. And yet, despite the sport’s best efforts, it just looks to be on this inevitable slide. I am not a contrarian when it comes to the conventional wisdom about baseball’s “aging fans” issue. It’s real.