Forbes compares soccer and baseball including a very slick and informative pop up slideshow highlighting the differences. While I doubt I'll see soccer become more popular than MLB, the NBA, or the NFL, I think it will leapfrog the NHL.

On a global scale, soccer leaves baseball even further behind. Soccer's preeminent event, the World Cup, which takes place every 4 years, had 1.1 billion people tune in to watch the final game in 2002 between Germany and Brazil. The tournament had a cumulative television audience of 29 billion people in a total of 213 countries for the 64 matches. Baseball's biggest event, the World Series, is a non-event outside of North America and Japan. Viewership in the U.S. for last year's World Series averaged 20 million per game and ratings were down more than 50% from 20 years ago.

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Somewhat soccer related, this past weekend Mayor Williams floated a trial baloon proposing building a brand new \$300 million stadium to lure a major league baseball team to the District. As a socccer fan this pretty much reinforces the notion that MLS is still a second or third tier sport's league and it makes me a bit mad. However, the practical side of me is more assured that this idea will go nowhere. Off wing Opinon has analyzed this is a piece titled The Charade Continues.

Why? Because Washington is simply more valuable to MLB without a team, as a bargaining chip to blackmail other cities into paying for publicly funded stadiums, than it is as a home for the wayward Montreal Expos.