always knows what he is talking about...

<<After a big finish that amounted to the most-attended final weekend of a season since 2008, Major League Baseball wound up with a total of 73,739,622 fans in the 2014 regular season, marking the seventh-highest total in the history of the sport.>>

m.mlb.com/news/article/96997392/attendance-in-2014-seventh-highest-in-mlb-history


MikeT will now proceed to explain why this is

A. Wrong
B. Actually bad news for MLB

The floor is yours MikeT.

Attendance down 0.4%, all those people were all at home watching America's true National Pastime... European soccer

WE'RE NUMBER 7!!!
WE'RE NUMBER 7!!!

"The 2014 total finished just 0.4 percent lower than 2013, despite playing five fewer dates (2,421) than last year (2,426). In addition, the 2014 average attendance of 30,458 per game was just 0.2 percent lower than the 2013 average of 30,515."

For all intents and purposes, attendance was steady from last year.



Of course, ballpark attendance is only one measure of the sport's popularity. TV ratings mean a heck of a lot, too.

But the bottom line is that individual NFL games kill MLB, but overall baseball is still pretty strong, and solidly #2 nationwide.

My point, all along, is that interest in baseball is in decline.    MLB can sit around, say "This was our 7th highest attendance figure ever" and do nothing or they can be pro-active. 

With numerous sports channels, there's no way they go the way of 70s NBA and get tape delay playoff games but people, younger people in particular, just aren't watching.

I hate to say it, but Mikey is correct. Baseball needs to do something to get young fans interested.

People like scoring. 

Posted by MikeT23 on 10/9/2014 4:29:00 PM (view original):
People like scoring. 

Yea they do...