If you weren't tuning into Cleveland Indians games this season you were not alone. SportsBusinessJournal has released the television ratings for the 2009 Major League season and not surprisingly the Indians had the sharpest decline in television viewership in the entire league with their ratings on SportsTimeOhio slipping 27.4% with a 2.84. An average of 43,000 households tuned into the Indians last place finish on a daily basis.

The MLB television numbers were down nationally as well because of the lack of exciting pennant races. The Sporting News Reports:

Fox saw its Saturday afternoon numbers drop 10 percent to a 1.8 rating/2.74 million viewers. Fox ended its regular season Oct. 2 with a 1.2/1.7 million average for a Saturday afternoon schedule that had just one game with postseason implications. That's 48 percent off 2008's numbers, when the last weekend of the regular season featured three games that had playoff implications for Fox, drawing a 2.3 rating.

ESPN saw ratings for its franchise series, "Sunday Night Baseball," drop 6 percent, to a 1.6 U.S. household rating, or 2.46 million viewers.