re: At what point do you stop following MLB?

I honestly lose focus when my team is out of contention. But I still follow what's happening.

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No one really came along to replace them.

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The league is full of exciting young players right now.

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All the big names of recent...ARod, McGwire, Bonds, Palmeiro, Braun, Hamilton, Clemens...I wouldn't want any kid to look up to.

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It's a shame if you kid doesn't look up to Braun. Sure, he started a brand of really douchey shirts and probable has the herp, but besides that he's played the game the right way regardless of how MLB would like to paint it. Plus if you look up his charitable works, you'll see he's actually very active in the community.

The Astros playing poorly has nothing to do with my loss of interest in baseball, regardless of the previous poster's attempts to define it as such.

I followed baseball very closely in the past, not just the Astros. However, I did follow them even when they sucked such as that year in the 90s when they lost around 100 games and played in front of 15K fans in the Astrodome.

My love of MLB died a slow death over a few years. I believe the owners and players have been horrible stewards of the game. I just don't have respect for it anymore. Kids play soccer now and I enjoy it too.

Mike Trout
Bryce Harper
Justin Verlander
Gianco Stanton
Buster Posey
Freddie Freeman


Baseball has tons of great ambassadors moving forward

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Mike Trout
Bryce Harper
Justin Verlander
Gianco Stanton
Buster Posey
Freddie Freeman

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I'd add david price and strausberg to that list just to get the pitching flavor invovled.

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agreed...this is a horrible generalization that really lacks a foundation.

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It really does and seems absurd to make them when yo claim not to have followed baseball in what I'm guessing is over 5 years.

It's not 2003, come back to baseball people.

I have stopped watching until they give Gallaraga his perfect game

Still relatively young, playing at a high level currently (well getting a shot at least) and from everything I've read a great young man

I was 10 years old living in South Florida when I started watching and playing baseball in 1993. I was a Marlins supporter up until last season. I now watch zero MLB.

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Ton of names you could actually add to the list....
Harvey
Cain
Kershaw
Rendon
Heyward
Dominic Brown

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Really does speak to the point that tehre is a lot of good young kids.

But, for fun, if you're putting brown in i get to at least slide one of Jeff Samardzija or Anthony Rizzo in.

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MLB should really focus on marketing Heyward, Brown, Justin Upton to the communities to encourage more young black kids

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We would be halfway to the next generation of star black MLB'ers if Dontrelle Willis didn't crush their hopes.