A new television series called “Pitch,” premiered this past week, which centers around the first woman ever to play in Major League Baseball. In their preview for the show, the New York Times wrote “And how will it cater to the hard-core baseball fan expecting authenticity while still appealing to women, whom Fox is depending on for much of its viewership?”
Assuming those two groups are mutually exclusive.
There’s an attitude that is prevalent in sports media and from teams that women are not on the same level as men when it comes to fandom. The New York Times article shows an attitude that women need something other than the actual sports, such as drama, to bring them into the game.