[vincesanity82]

Even though baseballs have been flying out of the ballpark at a much less alarming rate this year, fans are still filling the seats. In fact, MLB is on pace to set an attendance record for its fourth straight year.

Biz of Baseball has the details:

As the baseball season enters its stretch run with 18 teams within seven games of a postseason berth, Major League Baseball remains on pace to establish a new attendance record for the fourth consecutive year. Total attendance for the 30 Major League clubs has surpassed 64 million and is more than 4 percent ahead of the total through the same date of last year's season total of 76,042,787.

Now, looking solely at attendance obviously isn't the best indication to compare sports "popularity." There are far more baseball games a season than say NBA or NFL games. And, as we all know, football is America's most popular sport.

So what can we deduce from this? Well, in the last four years, perhaps the most scandal-ridden in the sport's history, the fans are still coming out in droves. So for as much as fans cry about the "purity" of it all, steroid allegations and the like haven't detracted people from the seats.

Baseball Attendance Increasing Yet Again - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

[Nuke]

Sorry but I live in the Bronx where the Yankees are religion and have tried to get into baseball for almost 20 years and each year about mid-season I realize that the game just bores the piss out of me.