{"id":34112,"date":"2025-07-27T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34112"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:47:55","slug":"as-the-ancients-foretold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/as-the-ancients-foretold\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Ancients Foretold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;ancients&#8221; in this case being me in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/st-louis-cardinals-pop-some-more-seed-corn\/\" target=\"_new\">denigrated the team&#8217;s plan to cut over-the-air games<\/a> and I predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/st-louis-cardinals-eat-more-seed-corn\/\" target=\"_new\">scaling back free tickets to lesser games for good students<\/a> would be eating the seed corn&#8211;diminishing their fan base for quick profit.<\/p>\n<p>And, lo, twenty years later, the prophecies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/column\/media-views\/article_68ba723b-5874-4380-a802-c6ad79b8aeab.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\" target=\"_new\">have proven true<\/a>, and the Cardinals might be turning that ship around, but probably too late:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far, so (largely) good with the Cardinals\u2019 efforts to increase their television and streaming viewership levels.<\/p>\n<p>The club has been experimenting this year with placing a handful of its locally produced games on over-the-air television after an absence of a decade and a half, and also is making all its local telecasts available for direct purchase via streaming for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The developments have led to significantly increased viewership and although the rise is not at blockbuster levels, an extreme bump seemed unlikely at a time of fan discontent with the team as evidenced by a significant downturn in home attendance even before the club\u2019s recent slide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To bad they sacrificed what might have been salvaged from that whole missing generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;ancients&#8221; in this case being me in 2006. I denigrated the team&#8217;s plan to cut over-the-air games and I predicted scaling back free tickets to lesser games for good students would be eating the seed corn&#8211;diminishing their fan base for quick profit. And, lo, twenty years later, the prophecies have proven true, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34113,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112\/revisions\/34113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}