Love is in the air. Sure, it could just be the buzz from eating all those candy hearts, but there’s another, bigger reason: baseball — and the Yankees — are back. Pitchers and catchers have taken the field, and life just seems a little sweeter.
Yet every year, we hear the same old story: baseball is dying. Falling attendance, sluggish pace of play, overlong broadcasts, cheating scandals, labor strife — there’s no shortage of maladies that seem to threaten the sport’s existence.
But we’ve heard claims of baseball’s demise decade after decade.