Professional team sports at the highest level has morphed from athletic contests to business entertainment. Stadiums and arenas are now designed to maximize space built for suites intended to promote deal making and customer relationships. The demand for individual performers (entertainers) produced the unintended consequence of teams seemingly built around thugs and criminals. It's becoming less a game and more of a show that's pricing itself out of the family entertainment market.
My love of baseball is no longer returned at major league ballparks. I much prefer watching the game from the friendly confines of Triple A minor league parks in such places as Des Moines, Indianapolis, Louisville, Toledo, New Orleans, etc. I can get an inexpensive seat close enough to the field to hear the umpire talking to the catcher. I have yet to see or hear obnoxious drunks fighting like I experienced every time I attended a Phillies home game. Yes, I don't get to watch pitchers throwing bullets or hitters launching monster shots like in the major leagues, but the game seems purer at the Triple A level. To me, it's close to the major league baseball I remember from my youth.