Why MLB is dying

[milkman]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

Regardless of hype, the fact remains, the Yankees/Red Sox had divisional and playoff implications at the time, and the Hall of Fame game, "return to football" not withstanding, is still a meaningless exhibition.

Baseball may not be dying.

It, however, has no where near the popularity that it had 20 years ago.

Interest in baseball has been waning for well over a decade.