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Yet another ridiculous news article promoting "the agenda" ... Early on, it reports: Disney-owned ESPN said it was the second highest rated men's soccer game, with about 16.5 million viewers

Scant sentences later, it reports: The more than 22 million watching on Tuesday beat the number of viewers - some 19 million - who tuned in to see the Boston Red Sox win the World Series last year.

How did they come up with this idea that it "beat the World Series?"

Oh ... I see: Spanish-language broadcast network Univision said 5.1 million watched the U.S. play Belgium in the knockout match.

For some reason. apropos of nothing, we just add Univision into the ESPN ratings because ... Well, because we want to make a story that soccer beats the World Series.

EVERYTHING the PC set does is based upon altering reality to conform to their own beliefs. Just unreal.

Yep. 2012 numbers

MLS

19 teams
Average attendance: 19,000
Total Attendance: 6,000,000

Baseball
30 teams
Average attendance: 31,000
Total Attendance: 74,000,000
And the numbers are increasing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_attendance_records#mediaviewer/File:MLB_Attendance.png

Only ONE team in the MLS had an average game attendance greater than baseball’s average of 31,000 in 2013, the Seattle Sounders at almost 44,000. 14 of the MLS teams had an average attendance less than 20,000 and six had less than 15,000. MLS plays 34 games. Baseball plays 162 games. Soccer has a long way to go to catch baseball in the USA.

The “agenda” will work. You are pissing in the wind trying to stop it. Im less likely to see this as some sort of PC agenda. It's more a case of soccer authorities and media outlets trying to promote the game. A game which will make them millions of dollars profit in the future. The same type of massaged figures come out of every organization whether that organization is for profit, non profit, charity, or run by the State.

I think ABC runs Univision and ESPN.

Anyway, I’m aware of one minor league baseball team that built a stadium so in the end, I’m not exactly seeing the end of baseball.

MLB teams play about 162 games, that’s a load of games. Maybe too much, maybe not.

MLS 34 regular season games in 2013 and there is a following of fans in the USA who clearly would rather watch European soccer than even turn the MLS on.

A number of MLS stadiums really aren’t very exceedingly large, Columbus Crew’s soccer-specific stadium, 24,000. Kansas City’s, 22,000.

Also, think of the farm-team system, professional minor league teams in the USA. http://www.milb.com/index.jsp

I don’t see that coming to a screeching halt.

Sure, USA fans turned out to watch our games at the World Cup, that is great and every 4 years like the Summer Olympics. Yet, are these stats there when the MLS Championship is on? I’m not sure.