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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1077527, member: 628"] I posted all the numbers I can earlier. Sorry, I just can't contribute a lot of specifics. One thing I'd keep in mind with the ratings you linked to is that there are roughly 100+ MLB games on TV every week between local and national telecasts. There are far fewer soccer matches on. So it's worth looking at viewing levels in aggregate. Case in point: in the early 2000s NASCAR was "hot" and loved to tout that it's ratings beat the NBA. But that was incredibly dishonest. NASCAR Winston/Sprint Cup had all of one telecast each week, while the NBA had upwards of 50 games on locally and nationally. So yeah, to believe NASCAR it was more "popular" than the NBA. But in totality it was never remotely close. And look, I think soccer will be bigger years from now than it is today. Every data point suggests that. And MLB has serious issues. But a sport doesn't triple it's avid fan base in a decade, just not the way it works. [/QUOTE]