This just in from the Baseball Health Department: baseball is not dead, and is in fact very much alive and healthy as a horse. (Or a goat.) (Never mind.)
The ratings for Wednesday’s Game 7 of the World Series are in, and they are stunning. The breathtaking game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians pulled a 25.2 overnight rating, which means that 25.2% of all televisions in the US were watching the World Series. More than 40 million people tuned in (40.015 million people to be exact), which makes it the most watched baseball game in the last 25 years.