Don't write baseball's eulogy quite yet

A year ago, I wrote an essay demolishing the notion that baseball was dying, or has become irrelevant.

But of course my little essay, and the dozens of others like it, won't ever stop the worrying Willies and Wilmas from looking at the NFL's television ratings, and at LeBron James, and at the burgeoning Major League Soccer, and predicting some impending doom. Just as the ever-prescient Howard Cosell predicted nearly 50 years ago.

Anyway, via Maury Brown at Forbes.com, here's just another reason to stop your worrying, Willie and Wilma:

The teams that aren't faring quite so well tend to be a) not at all good this season, or b) involved in serious carriage disputes with local cable providers. In other words, if you've got a decent team and people can watch, they will watch.

Sounds like a pretty good business model, don't you think?