MLB should ignore all the noise about it's slow decline into irrelevance. How it's never going to be on the level of NFL again. Because if this is what being the biggest draw in American sport is about now, no thanks. Soap opera, WWF, Roller-Derby, worst of reality TV, all rolled into one. There is now no enjoying a football-centric build-up to this potentially great match-up, because, with the leagues active promotion, or tacit approval, this other peripheral noise now blocks out the sun. Following this sport is just not nearly as much fun as it used to be.