Top 5 Reasons Why MLB Attendance Is Down in 2011

They still sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" in the seventh-inning stretch at every game. But there are fewer people hitting the chorus these days.
With a lockout ongoing in the NFL and another in the NBA looming, Major League Baseball is solid in comparison. Interest in the game seems to be as strong as ever.
So why, as of mid-May, is 2011 attendance at the 30 MLB ballparks down significantly, by 263,000 fans (roughly 1.3 percent), from this point last season? Theories abound. Here are the top five reasons why baseball attendance is down:

Weather

The No. 1 reason. We've had 26 games already postponed by rain, or snow, or cold in the first quarter of the season. In all of 2010, there were 21. At this pace, there will be 106 by year's end.

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