Neil Freiman

Attendance was up for the third straight season.

The first time there's been three straight seasons of growing attendance since 2005 to 2007.

And viewership is absolutely just crushing the NBA when it matters in the playoff moments.

2025 World Series Game 7.

drew 26 million viewers.

2025 MLB Finals Game 7 drew 16 million viewers.

That's the fourth time out of the last six years that the World Series has beat the NBA Finals in viewership.

So if you're looking at the MLB and the NBA, those two leagues are going in opposite directions.

Let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines.

Mark Zuckerberg's about to write a big check, even for him.

Meta was found liable for nearly $400 million after a New Mexico jury found the company didn't keep kids safe from child predators, sexually explicit content, and human trafficking on its apps.

New Mexico's attorney general who brought the suit, Raul Torres, said it was the first time that a state won in a trial against a major tech company for harming young people.

Meta said it disagreed with the decision and would appeal.

It's one of a number of cases Meta and other social media companies are facing this year over the lack of safeguards for children on their platforms, trials that legal experts have compared to the big tobacco reckoning in the 90s.

A jury in Los Angeles has been deliberating since last Friday in a separate personal injury trial involving Meta and Google, while another federal trial will begin in Northern California later this year.

Moving on, people aren't playing Fortnite as much, and it's led to major layoffs at the game's developer, Epic Games.

Yesterday, Epic said it was cutting over 1,000 jobs, about 20% of its workforce, citing a tough macro environment, but also decreased engagement on its flagship game, Fortnite.

CEO Tim Sweeney said the downturn in Fortnite means Epic was spending more money than it was bringing in, hence the need to cut costs.

Quote, despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season.

Sweeney sounded optimistic about the future, but there's no denying that Fortnite's popularity and profitability has waned since people could hang out with each other again outside.