{"id":3563,"date":"2012-01-17T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2012-01-17T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:01:45","slug":"how-two-cave-men-brought-major-league-baseball-into-the-social-media-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/01\/17\/how-two-cave-men-brought-major-league-baseball-into-the-social-media-age\/","title":{"rendered":"How Two &#8216;Cave&#8217; Men Brought Major League Baseball Into the Social Media Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to capturing the attention of young people, baseball suffers from the same problem that plagues all forms of entertainment \u2014 infinite competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou used to go outside and play sports, which put you on that path,\u201d says Terry Lefton, editor-at-large for Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily. \u201cNow there are more things to do. My 14-year-old plays video games constantly. I\u2019ll be watching NFL with him, and if the game gets boring, he\u2019ll go upstairs and play Madden. He doesn\u2019t see any difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/01\/12\/mlb-fan-cave-social-media\/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&amp;utm_campaign=My%2BStories&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\">How Two &#8216;Cave&#8217; Men Brought Major League Baseball Into the Social Media Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to capturing the attention of young people, baseball suffers from the same problem that plagues all forms of entertainment \u2014 infinite competition. \u201cYou used to go outside and play sports, which put you on that path,\u201d says Terry Lefton, editor-at-large for Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily. \u201cNow there are more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/01\/17\/how-two-cave-men-brought-major-league-baseball-into-the-social-media-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Two &#8216;Cave&#8217; Men Brought Major League Baseball Into the Social Media Age<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}