MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
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MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
Reason #2 is that media, like many other industries, is undergoing an unbundling: “the decline of the firm as a principle agent of change” as Nadia Eghbal puts it. In other words, more power to the players, who can now produce independent revenue streams via social media and live streaming services like Twitch. Players also have a stronger role in ... See more
Lea Boreland • Adapting sports
“This is a sport that is living in the past, that has no connection to the realities of the game right now and no connection to the rest of society,”
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
For example, in the United States, everyone knew and cared about the names of the companies on their stadiums, but no one knew or cared about the names of the companies on their players’ jerseys. There was no rule of human behavior that made this so: in Europe everyone knew and cared about the names on the players’ jerseys but not about the corpora
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