Boredom isn't the reason for lack of interest. It is lack of accessibility. I can't watch ST. Louis Cardinal games because I don't have cable and if I get MLB.TV the games will be blocked for me because it is blacked out. Why would MLB make it so difficult for fans to watch the games?
Another is accessibility of the game itself for neighborhood pick up games. Basketball you can be done with two players at the park (even just one child shooting hoops works). Even football the neighborhood kids and I could play that with just 5 of us (I was all time quarterback with two receivers on each side). Baseball, though, was always hard to do because there is too much chasing after the ball when there aren't enough people to fill all the holes in the field.
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