Philosophical Argument 1

Strictly focusing on the business side of this argument, a fan base is a key piece for a sports organization. They express their emotions on how they feel about their game day experience, paying ticket after ticket, buying concession after concession. The case can be made that the star player(s) are not the face of the organization, the true face(s) of the organization are the fans.

For this particular situation, that is NOT the first time this has happened in a World Series. Let's keep that in mind. If you are an owner of a professional sports team, is it ethical to allow fans that interfered in a game back to your business, especially when it could dictate a championship for your organization?

What will happen when those fans return? Will they do the same thing or will they not interfere? As a business owner, what message are you sending with that action? What does banning those fans for ONE game going to do?

This leads to a bigger issue with "sports": "Sports" is being incentivized as entertainment. Instead of fundamentals being starred, it is someone's athleticism in which scouts and representatives are hunting, looking, and observing every square inch of this planet to find the next big star athletic model.

By doing that, it makes your organization, your league more of a movie industry and less of a "sport".

What does this decision say about the decision makers, the New York Yankees, and Major League Baseball?

If the Yankees came back and won the World Series, what will be said about this situation?

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