{"id":273956,"date":"2025-11-09T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273956\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:38:15","slug":"some-things-i-think-i-think-as-baseball-reaches-new-heights-owners-threatening-nuclear-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273956\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Things I Think I Think: As baseball reaches new heights, owners threatening nuclear option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/\" title=\"Navigate to Red Sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox<\/a>Updated: Nov. 09, 2025, 2:20 p.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 5:00 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Rob Manfred (L) and Tom Ricketts (R)\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WZWN4KIYUFFT3LZ4S5RGERMLLM.jpg\"\/>CHICAGO, ILLINOIS &#8211; AUGUST 01: Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred (L) speaks with owner Tom Ricketts of the Chicago Cubs during the 2027 Chicago All-Star Game Announcement at Wrigley Field on August 01, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images)Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LLALTH4SJNB6PHJBOMC7XHELIM\">\u2217 Baseball, you might have noticed, is on a roll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ASAFTWIJF5BULFV6PKC6RSYGFI\">For the third straight season, regular season attendance increased. It\u2019s the first time in two decades that the sport has seen this stretch of multi-year growth at the ticket office.<\/p>\n<p>Sean McAdam has covered the Red Sox for a variety of outlets since 1989. He&#8217;s the co-host of MassLive&#8217;s podcast, Fenway Rundown, and the author of two books. He&#8217;s a graduate of Providence College and lives in&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red SoxUpdated: Nov. 09, 2025, 2:20 p.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 5:00 a.m.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS &#8211; AUGUST 01: Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,38796,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-273956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-national-league","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}