Professional Baseball and Fan Disillusionment: A Religious Ritual Analysis
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the last ten years, Major League Baseball has suffered a significant loss of fan support. The reasons for this are varied and numerous, but an explanatory theory to unite them is largely lacking. This is particularly evident within the field of religious scholarship where baseball, if spoken of at all, is romanticized and rarely analyzed for the problems it faces. Or because of the secular trappings of professional sport and its willingness to adopt the rationalized means of organizing and expressing itself, some scholars argue that religion is largely absent there. Conversely in this paper, I show how baseball has in the past and continues to provide a kind of religious ritual experience for the fan via its use of a life-cycle. Then I will argue that the way in which business and baseball interact today results in a dis-integration of said coherent experience that prohibits many fans from engaging with their sport.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it