*By Conor White* With Major League Baseball's postseason just one week away, fans are gearing up for an October full of exciting moments and unforgettable finishes. But the league is scrambling to attract more viewers ー and younger ones, at that. "We've got to do a better job of having some games in the afternoon in the postseason," Ron Darling, MLB analyst for TBS, said Tuesday in an interview on Cheddar, "so our younger viewers who come home from school can watch games like I did when I was a young kid." According to the Sports Business Journal, Major League Baseball has the second-oldest fan in pro sports with an average age of 57. Only the PGA Tour can claim an older demographic. Darling is very familiar with the rigors of the postseason ー he helped the New York Mets win the World Series back in 1986. But the game has changed quite a bit since then, and so has the broader landscape. In addition to football, basketball, hockey, and soccer, baseball now has another sport vying for fans' attention. "Esports has just become so popular, so quickly," the former pitcher said. "The way they do things are things that baseball and other sports should've thought of years and years ago." But the rise of esports may not be all bad, Darling said. "I think what esports is going to do for the major sports, it's going to make them ー and demand of themー that they change all of the old thinking," he said. MLB certainly isn't shunning advancements in technology, though. In fact, the league was one of the first to stream games to consumers via MLB.TV, and MLB Advanced Media is considered the gold-standard for sports streaming. The league has also struck deals to stream games via Twitter ($TWTR) and Facebook ($FB), and Darling expects to see more of those partnerships in the future. "I think at some point, instead of one of the major networks, you might have one of the \[social\] media outlets doing more and more games," he said. For full interview [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/prelude-to-a-fall-classic).

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