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

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The NBA definitely has the least amount of parity among the three major leagues. The talent gap between the true contenders and the worst teams in the NBA is astronomical. There are some truly horrendous NBA teams

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This is why I don't buy the argument from people that baseball struggles simply because of lack of parity and because it goes by an irregular schedule as opposed to the NFL and P5 college football. The NBA has an irregular schedule and probably the least amount of parity of the Big 3 sports (sorry hockey fans), the difference is that they do a superb job of marketing their stars nonstop.

People can say what they want about the steroid era, but the sport of baseball was kneecapped by the fact that the MLB allowed their own media to go after their stars. They completely misjudged public perception thinking that they cared deeply about the "integrity of the game"; just look at how fans yawn at NFL PED suspensions, and I'd hazard a guess that NBA fans -- and NBA brass, for that matter -- feel the same way. They should have been marketing guys like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons and Alex Rodriguez, not waging war against them. They sanctioned the Mitchell Report and then wondered why it backfired on them when the alleged names on the list started leaking out.