NPR has a baseball bias.

I began to suspect something was a miss back in 2004, when the shows from Morning Edition to All Things Considered to carried stories about Washing DC's new team, the Nationals. Did they make this big of a deal back in 2000 when the Minnesota Wild were introduced? I think not.

I thought maybe the Nationals were a fluke. I was even willing to look the other way when Science Friday reported on what role luck plays in baseball, but when MPR started a baseball only blog, I had to draw the line. If they had a blog for every sport I would understand, but they don't even include America's fastest growing sport.

Finally, because I prefer statistic over anecdotes, I did a quick search of the NPR website. Here I discovered that searching for baseball brings up 3,666 related articles, while basketball reveals a mere 2,601 stories. I suppose this excusable, as the World Baseball Classic is underway, while there are currently no major basketball events. Oh wait. What's this?

Meanwhile, soccer has only 1,519 results, all the Olympic sports put together has 1,005, and women's professional yacht racing, a measly five.

You can decide for yourself, but I sure think disgraced former CPB Chair Kenneth Tomlinson should have been combating a whole different type of bias.