{"id":202726,"date":"2020-07-01T07:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=202726"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T22:01:43","slug":"no-minor-league-baseball-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=202726","title":{"rendered":"No Minor League Baseball This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (AP) \u00a0 Baseball\u2019s minor leagues have canceled their season. The head of the governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body, made the long-expected announcement. National Association president Pat O\u2019Conner says the leagues \u201cdon\u2019t have national TV revenues.\u201d O\u2019Conner estimated 85-90% of revenue was related to ticket money, concessions, parking and ballpark advertising. The minors drew 41.5 million fans last year for 176 teams in 15 leagues, averaging 4,044 fans per game. MLB teams are planning for a 60-game regular season and most of their revenue will derive from broadcast money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (AP) \u00a0 Baseball\u2019s minor leagues have canceled their season. The head of the governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections. The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202726"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203046,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202726\/revisions\/203046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}