Who's more popular: New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers?

Baseball has been in trouble for a long time. Clinging to traditions and the past; they live in the golden moments of yesteryear and refuse to stride forward into the future, making the changes necessary for the game. Take the Dodgers situation: Instead of selling the Dodgers to an owner that cared passionately for the sport in Mark Cuban, Bud Selig blocked his takeover attempt and sold it to McCourt, who bought the team on a credit card, and did nothing with it but line his pockets with cash.

All because Cuban is young, brash and has ideas for the sport that challenges Selig's static, unchanging thought process. Look at some of the ridiculousness that baseball clings to: Only major sport without a salary cap of any kind, only major sport to NOT embrace changing technology, only major sport to have home-field advantage in championship series by an exhibition game, only major sport to use different rules depending on the league you play in, only major sport to not have clearly defined playing fields, the list goes on and on. People are clamoring for a change, and when they don't see it coming, they are finding other things to do.

Football consistently outdraws baseball, even during baseball postseason. The NBA has overtaken baseball as well, so our national pasttime has sunk down to the third most popular sport, all under the watch of Bud Selig. This man's retirement can not come soon enough, however to fix it the baseball owners need to look beyond their self-interest and choose a man with vision that can bring baseball into the modern era.

This is 2011 Bud, not 1911.

Baseball still makes more money than any other sport but football and by a long shot. The Mets and Dodgers both have ownership issues due to Madoff and a messy divorce/legal mess with the league. Both have fielded bad teams in the last few years and been eclipsed by their major rivals in their respective divisions.

Once McCourt is gone and the Mets' financial situation is stabilized (with their new part time owner, or a new owner all together) and they field better products they will win. In the meantime, the Red Sox and Yankees are still kicking butt.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.