re: The decreased interest in baseball is evident on this board

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I'd rather spend an afternoon at wrigley field than to be at an NFL stadium or basketball arena

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This x 1000

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but the stadium experience is meh and increasingly trashy.

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Also this. NFL games are a shade above Nascar as far as trash festivals go. The only way I'll probably go to a Texans game is if I'm given tickets or there's a playoff game (lol)

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Baseball lacks star power

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But this is the kicker compared to basketball. I like MLB significantly more than the NBA and don't really pay a ton of attention to the NBA until the second round of the playoffs, but the individual star power is much greater in the NBA. Until another Junior Griffey or Jeter rolls around MLB won't even be remotely close in that regard. The part of the NBA that's interesting to me is the front office moves and how the salary cap is managed by each team. The actual games, especially regular season games, can be tough to watch for me at times.

The idea that baseball is dying means that it will eventually die though. Which is an absurd notion. When is it going to die? What are they going to do, tear down Yankee Stadium and Fenway, stop selling the Yankee hats that fricking everyone in the world wears and tell the Cardinals fans "tough shite"? Come on.