Baseball Polling

Polling shows baseball doing better than people think:

Public Policy Polling generally releases things relating to politics, which we wouldn’t be touching here because this is a sports site. Wouldn’t you know it, they actually did some sports polling and it’s pretty interesting for many reasons.

On the “baseball is dying” front, the clowns who use that refrain continue to be proven gravely mistaken. MLB checks in second behind the monstrosity that is the NFL in terms of how many people consider themselves fans among pro sports. MLB got 42 percent of the vote while NFL had 55. NBA was third at 36 percent.

On baseball specifically, perhaps the most interesting poll shows that 51 percent of fans want Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens in the Hall of Fame while only 34 percent want them to be kept out. Clemens got 45.2 percent of the BBWAA vote last season while Bonds got 44.3 percent.

There’s much more, including a very high percentage of people polled against the designated hitter. Here is the full poll.

from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/24TGHwk