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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Numbers do not lie. If all you have is the number of games as apart of your argument than baseball is in very big trouble. None of that has anything to do with why the average public does not know anything about top players all over the country. Todd Helton has been a long time player on the Rockies and I bet the average person would not know him if he robbed them at gun point and he wore a Rockies Jersey on.
The NFL has a network. ESPN runs NFL programming off-season. NFL Films captivates the passion of the sport of football. The NFL Draft is not only an event, but a major production on two networks.
The NBA has a network also. ESPN also runs NBA programming during the off-season until the regular season. The NBA can have a lot of scandal and everyone is talking about their top players even when they are involved in the scandal.
MLB cannot fill certain stadiums during the post-season. When the Cubs, Yankees and Red-Sox do not play in the post season the public stops watching the post season. MLB did not even market their best moment of the year, instead let speculation and other scandal tamper with something that is not proven.
Once again, it is the MLB Post-Season. You should be able to crush NFL games with teams that will not even make the playoffs. Maybe baseball was once a big deal, but it certainly is not that way anymore. And the numbers of how many kids are playing it is also a factor in that whether you or I want to accept it or not.
Peace
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What stadium has not been filled in MLB postseason?
Barry Bonds was not a scandal?
Major League Baseball is still a big deal, it is just not as big a deal as football, thanks to gambling.