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The Fantasy Illusion

The Monetization of the Modern Baseball Fan Experience

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Baseball Buddha
Apr 23, 2025
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve walked through how the modern baseball stadium isn’t a ballpark, it’s a casino. How the game experience has been flattened into a series of nudges and feedback loops designed for maximum engagement and minimum reflection. Then we dug into how sports gambling monetized not just the outcomes of games, but the emotional and et…

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