You're comparing to last year. 2002 is the year that baseball was so much better! Sure, since Velardi and Dennis Cook retired, the golden age is over. Absolutely.

Once again, implying that entertainment value is a measure of the talent on the field is complete nosense. Stupid.

But just to show that your memory is not what you think it is: MLB Attendence by year, in Millions

1970 28.7
1971 29.2
1972 27.0
1973 30.1
1974 30.0
1975 29.8
1976 31.3
1977 38.7
1978 40.6
1979 43.6

2000 71.4
2001 72.6
2002 67.4

Now, do you agree that the overall talent is now triple what it was in 1970? Or to you agree that attendence says nothing about the quality of talent?

I saw Mike Warren's no hitter in '83. There must have been 500 people in the stadium. We walked down to the best seats, so close we could hear Mike Heath joking with the ChiSox as they came up. You can't tell me the either attendence nor talent was better then. That's just stupid.

Is it the 70's you claim are the glory years? Are you saying players were better then? There were fewer .190 hitters?

In the meantime, unemployment is the highest in eight years. And at the cost of baseball, I don't take my family but a few times a year, and its not because there nobody as good as Hal Lanier.