re: Why does ESPN hate college baseball?

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Tell me how many softball stadiums can easily eclipse the 10,000 mark for attendance.

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Correct. There are four schools that regularly pull that many baseball fans. Median D1 attendance for both sports is about 500 though.
Softball is roughly equal to baseball on TV and is on the rise instead of continuous decline. Softball also gets an interest boost every few years because of the Olympics. Baseball did have a resurgence last year that temporarily brought its ratings to where they were a decade ago, but that was attributed almost entirely to Louisiana.