Why MLB is dying

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by milkman

Baseball is probably not dying.

However it says something about the popoularity of the sport, or lack thereof, when the NFL Hall of Fame game gets a higher TV rating than the Yankee/Red Sox Sunday night game that was aired at the same time.

And that rating was almost double.

The Hall of Fame game was something of a 'return' of the NFL.

Yankees/Sox was just another incredibly hyped late-summer baseball game. Most people are just a little tired of Yankees/Sawx.

There are 10 times the number of baseball games played, it's no surprise at all that any one of those games, especially in the late summer, would get a lower rating than an NFL game, even a pre-season one. When you consider the regional nature of baseball as opposed to the national nature of football, it makes even more sense.