Did the 1994 Strike Destroy Major League Baseball Forever?

[Suburbia]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3. Since August 12, 1994, baseball has never been the same, even if they revolved things, even if the sport survived the 90s Braves run and the 90s Yankees dynasty, the steroid era, international sports stars like Hideki Matsui and Masahiro Tanaka....

Did the strike suck the oxygen out of the MLB?

[Хahar 🤔]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

[Suburbia]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

For people who like baseball, it still is America's pastime. For people who don't like baseball, it wasn't America's pastime before 1994 either.

[bagelman]

Yes, in Quebec.

Even if the Expos would've lost to the Yankees, a NL pennant and world series appearance would have still be a huge deal to Montreal.

[Хahar 🤔]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

I am fascinated by this assertion that basketball was ever more popular than football.

[Biden his time]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

Baseball always has had outsize popularity in the Northeast in my understanding

But it was on a downward spiral throughout the rest of the country far before 1994

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

I am fascinated by this assertion that basketball was ever more popular than football.

It will be one day  💪

[Suburbia]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

I am fascinated by this assertion that basketball was ever more popular than football.

It is....it is more popular with young people than football......

[Crane]

Pre-1994, baseball was No. 1 in sports next to basketball and football was No. 3.

What?

Yes.

Baseball, basketball, football.....baseball is America's pastime

I am fascinated by this assertion that basketball was ever more popular than football.

I guess he's thinking in 1994 Michael Jordan made it more popular, but I'm not sure about that.

[Podgy the Bear]

The 1994 strike was a major blow to MLB.  It recovered quite a bit with the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run battle in 1998 and the Yankees great run from 1996-2000, but the resultant doping scandal was devastating.