It was a banner year for Major League Baseball, and Commissioner Bud Selig doesn't mind talking about it. There were dynamic pennant races, record attendance, record gross revenues and a feeling that all is well despite the World Series ending in five or less games for the fourth postseason in a row. Even the dark cloud of the pending report from the Mitchell Committee regarding MLB's steroid era couldn't dampen his enthusiasm. "I'll say it again; we've broken attendance records for the last four years," he said in the days before the Red Sox defeated the Rockies, 4-3, on Sunday night at Coors Field to sweep to the title for the second time in the past four years. "Gross revenues of the sport have now gone over $6 billion [per annum]. The sport has never been more popular."