If the weather is nice, if the home club is winning, if there's nothing better to do, people in a major-league town will go out to the ballpark. It' s the only place in the world that feels like that, which is why millions come every summer even when the Cubs are at their worst. Those days are gone. If there is an exciting game on a night when nothing much else is competing for the national attention, people are more than willing to sit and watch. That's the big change.
Baseball has to earn the country's attention, every time.
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