Baseball is a slow game. It's cerebral game. ("This shit's chess, it ain't checkers!") Football and basketball are bang-bang, fast & big and instantly gratifying sports. Score, score and score some more. Baseball is 162 games in a season. Football, 16 games, Basketball, 82 games. The general populace has the attention span of a gnat today and the majority like sports hard and fast. Hence, the rise of MMA and the fall of boxing. I think baseball is what it is and is doing just fine. It's an acquired taste and you either love it or you don't.