With the NFL being so successful in America over the last 25 years, people have begun to dub it as the new "Americas Past time" The success of the NFL and NBA in America has challenged major league baseball to its core. With the steroid area and all of the allegations and evidence of players taking performance enhancing drugs to improve their play, left many fans feeling betrayed and disgusted with baseball.
Now baseball is on the verge of coming out of that era and in my opinion it is catching on again as it once did back in its prime. This years world series involves the Texas Rangers vs. the St. Louis Cardinals. The story line of this series has been epic comebacks and the fact that st. Louis is historically the better team than the rangers. This is because the Cardinals have won the world series in the double digits while the Rangers have yet to win a world series. Lat year the Rangers went to the world series and were unsuccessful so this year I'm hoping they can pull off the win and finally become crowned champions.
While baseball may not have the popularity it once did among the American people, I believe the MLB is taking the right steps to reforming what baseball means to Americans. With the world series currently underway, the world will be watching to see what will happen.
Now that the series is over, are you disappointed? I was surprised to see that Game 7 received only a slightly higher rating than the Sunday Night football game in which the winless Colts played. Given the overwhelming success of the NFL, even post-lockout, I am not as optimistic about the future of baseball.
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