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Originally Posted by Goody
They'll have to agree to it eventually if the ratings keep falling at the rate they are. By then it could be too late. Maybe they'll just eventually have like an 8 team league with all the powerhouse markets. That would be more exciting than watching the same teams get beat up all year and hand off their amazing players to the highest bidder at the trade deadline...year after year after year....
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World Series and All-Star game ratings have been declining, but regular season ratings (and attendance, which is far more important to baseball, as opposed to television-driven sports like football and basketball) have been going up.
You've been harping on the supposed decline in baseball's popularity for the last few weeks, but the fact still remains that baseball attendance has been skyrocketing over the last fifteen years, only dropping last year during the worst recession the country's seen since World War II. Even in this down year, baseball drew 75,000,000 fans. That's more than 20,000,000 more than came to see games in 1988, which you seem to see as a better time for baseball. You're trying to fix something that isn't broken.