Baseball and the Media: How fans lose in Today's Coverage of the Game

In this article, Chicago Cubs baseball beat writer George Castle takes a different side on how fans are beginning to miss out on coverage of baseballs game due to the non-stop flourishing of technology and all of its advancements. Castle believes that "Baseball is the most media-accessible professional sport, but increasingly, fans are receiving far less information about the game for a myriad of reasons, including the shrinking news holes, a re-emphasis on high school sports, the pervasiveness of sports talk radio, the 24-hour news cycle and the neogig." With this being said, he emphasizes on how less and less people are going to games and can just check the statistics and scores on their different techonology devices. I chose this article because it shows the argumentative side of my groups webisode but also gives more resources and details that we used in our project. As the future comes closer and technology progresses, many fear that fans will lose the vast information that they would normally recieve about the game due to relying on the technology that is here now and what's to come in the future. As far as a real world example goes, this is similar to online shopping now adays. Because shopping online is now offered, employees working in stores fear the loss of their jobs and the decrease in sales at malls and stores due to competition. In our class textbook, Media Programming, they mention that megasports events such as NBS, NHL, and MLB games are all covered by ESPN, which has talk shows on highlights and such that can appear live a dozen times a day or be cut back so that fans don't even have to watch the game. This idea is very similar to Castles article and shows the more defensive side of the effects of media on fans and everyday people.
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