With so many games there’s less at stake in each game and less reason to watch any particular game — apart from the playoffs and World Series. But in any case, the US and the other countries where baseball is popular aren’t a large part of the world’s population compared the countries where soccer is popular.
Are you talking about it being on TV or live at the venue? I don’t think I’d like to see a soccer match either way. I don’t understand why the smaller bars have their TVs always tuned (not necessarily live) to soccer as their default channel, and why, even if you ask them nicely, they won’t change it just to see what else might be on. Probably because soccer is so international and “PC”, so nobody can whine about it being too American. That’s where I’ll sit and have just one, and then either stop in somewhere else or head home.