One of this site's contributors is, in marketing terms, the absolutely ideal consumer for baseball. He loves the game, goes frequently, will travel to stadiums outside of his metropolitan area, and is the gateway to the next generation of baseball fans, seeing as he how three impressionable young'uns. As he's a Phillies Fan, his children have grown up in the best era ever for that laundry, and have taken the sports in stages. He plays in multiple MLB fantasy games, and if an MLB playoff game is on, that's where his television is tuned, rather than to the NFL.(For the record, this person is not me. My girls were raised as A's Fans, which means they don't care about baseball at all. Nor should they, since the front office doesn't. But I digress.)How have the Lords of Baseball treated his fandom, and the possible future fandom of the next generation? As follows.1) Schedule Game One of the NLDS during the work day, so that other media markets (Boston, NY, LA)...
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