Hey, Blinded By The Light -- do you know WHY this is happening??

Happened across this one on Yardbarker this morning...

Attendance at Major League Baseball is down, quite a bit, year over year...

Attendance down 6.6% -- number of people attending down 9%...

Oh gee...

Could it be because if you aren't New York, Boston, Houston, Chicago, or St. Louis, we're all supposed to forget it???

Naaaaaaaaaaaaah...

And then my anonymous friend points out another great reason people are staying home...

If steroids, juiced balls, and home runs are going to draw people out to the games, then this little ditty from Sports Illustrated yesterday will show a reason people are staying away....

Strikeouts have exploded for 13 seasons, so much so that GMs are actually saying the ball never should enter play, so a strikeout pitcher is now better than anything hit on the ground.

So much so that SI reports that there will probably be more strikeouts this HALF-SEASON than in the entire season of 1980!

There are now six more strikeouts per game than in 1988.

So there's another reason...