It's easy to stay "committed" when you have someone else to pay your bills, and bail you out of jail, and the charges get dropped. Also, these sports deals have to do with the fact that sportsball is the only thing that we still watch en masse in real time.

If you really think that they're siding with the majority, instead of trying to manipulate the market from the supply side the same way Disney has for decades now, pay attention to the Cleveland Indians. If the team sucks as bad as I think they will this year, those stands will be emptier than they were during the bad years at Municipal Stadium, and that's what the owners care about.