What’s Up with Empty Ballparks in MLB?
Baseball, Fans April 6th. 2011, 12:35pm
Here’s a screengrab of empty Yankee Stadium last night. The “official” numbers are only slightly down, but the number of people in seats is way down. Weather? Economy? It seems to be an early-season MLB trend story we’ll see a lot of this weekend.
Nobody’s showing up at Blue Jays games (this is a screen grab from last night), but hockey is still in season, so that’s probably a legit excuse. But since the Maple Leafs are going to miss the playoffs, what will be the excuse next month?
Absolutely nobody is showing up to Indians games. Cleveland couldn’t draw 10,000 for a weekend game against the White Sox, and even though the Red Sox are in town, fans in Cleveland don’t seem to care. Last night’s 9,025 fans at Jacobs Field was the smallest crowd Boston has played in front of in 11 years.
Here’s a photo of the paltry crowd at Wrigley Field, via the Sun-Times. The paper looks at the ugly early numbers:
Only 26,292 fans showed up Monday at Wrigley Field, the smallest crowd since 20,503 attended a game Sept. 11, 2002
The Cubs probably won’t be contenders this year, so perhaps fans are waiting for roster improvements, and will get back in the mix next summer?
MLB seems to set attendance records every year, but based on (very) early returns, that streak could be in jeopardy.
[NYY grab via @BubbaProg, Toronto grab via Lott]
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April 6th, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Going to go with increasing percentage of the sport’s fan base being on fixed incomes.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
The Leafs mathematical playoff hopes were on the line last night and Oakland was in town. If you look at the numbers from the weekend series with a decent team, things aren’t that bleak.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Fenway will show em how its done this weekend
April 6th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
April 6th, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Yeah economy.
Gas and food prices are up.
People are being more cautious with their expendable
income.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Because it’s April 6th, and I was getting windy snow yesterday morning. Judge the attendence when it’s finally warm out.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Very similar attendence handwringing this week about Major League Soccer. Interesting.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Ratings! Atttendance!
In all seriousness, I’ve been saying this for years. These 3.5 hour AL games will be the death of beisbol. Of course, they’ll never do anything.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Opening Day always sells out… it didn’t this year. I imagine there will be sellouts in the summer time. Fans are finally taking a stand against fielding mediocrity though. Proud of my fellow Cubs fans.
That and having the 2nd highest ticket prices in all of baseball.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:43 PM
CJ – it’s supposed to be 70 this weekend. You going?
April 6th, 2011 at 12:44 PM
lol.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Easier for them to afford to attend games what with all the bank robbers and all.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:44 PM
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I live in Pennsylvania
April 6th, 2011 at 12:45 PM
May be an indicator but weather was pretty bad. The announced “paid attendance” for Yankee Stadium was 40,000 +. Not bad for a Tuesday night game against the Twins. It was World Series weather in April (Swish had the hoodie with ear muffs on).
Cleveland? Who knows.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Pay no attention to the 45 mil payroll on the Indians field this yr tribe fans! We now have food network sandwiches!!
/fuck the dolans
April 6th, 2011 at 12:45 PM
The Leafs mathematical playoff hopes were on the line last night
In all sincerity, my condolences on them being eliminated, they put together a heck of run since the all star break.
/hit my quota of saying nice things about the Leafs early this year
April 6th, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Im ready to put you in my reah view
April 6th, 2011 at 12:46 PM
fan interest is clearly not through the roof.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:46 PM
To go along with the weather stuff – this IS the earliest the season has started in quite a few years I think. We should probably give it a few weeks before we panic.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:48 PM
those seats are for the birds.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
The weather is crappy, economy for most middle income families is still brutal, and Cleveland is a cesspool. There are your reasons.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
/Jim Nantz’d
//Yesterday’d
April 6th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Excuse me, Miz. He spells his name Marlon BYRD thank you very much.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
you know, i was all set to like baseball this year because of how many people were getting into it, but now that there are less people than anticipated, i think im going to stop enjoying it.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
it’s not even September yet, give it a chance.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:51 PM
How many baseball games a year can a person who isn’t rich, or has a family or a job, really attend? And if you have a set number that you can attend, why would you go in April when the weather’s crappy?
April 6th, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Weather, economy,and opponent have played a big role in attendance this year. It’s been fucking cold, the teams you mentioned are either terrible or playing terrible teams.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
oh go fuck yourself, philly ain’t no peach either.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Sad but true, a lot of people are squeamish about watching baseball “in the cold”
April 6th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
LOL
April 6th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Dude, it’s all you’ve got from here until… well, until whenever the lockout is solved or the OSU-Miami game. Get into it. Tribe has some youngsters that will be fun to watch. They may not win a lot of games, of course.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:53 PM
This is such a bizarre TBL crusade, even more bizarre than insulting Danny Manning vehemently by comparing him to Kemba Walker.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Exactly! You want to save your games for the summer time when all the females are wearing skirts and tank tops and bikini tops.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:53 PM
you know, i was all set to like baseball this year because of how many people were getting into it, but now that there are less people than anticipated, i think im going to stop enjoying it.
I agree with this and so because someone I know from a blog says this, I will stop liking it too.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
The top half of the 9th inning of the Phils-Stros game the other day took a solid 25 minutes, it was brutal.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Surprising it was so empty with the Red Sox in town, they always draw well on the road but I guess it’s not as fashionable to be on that bandwagon anymore.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
When you start rooting for one team and one team only and dont wear other team’s gear you can go the “proud of me fellow cubs fans” route.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
i’ve got the PGA and my own golf…methinks i’ll be fine until november.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Hey, a college football playoff, baseball contraction and ratings-based draft incentives for all professional franchises are closer than you think, pal.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Call the cops when you see Tim Ryyyyaaannn.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
when I lived in Cleveland I would always got to a few tribe games in April, just because tickets were cheap as fuck for the first month of the season.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
First year out of college I went to 12 Cubs games. Then the following year I got 38 in when I was making a full paycheck and still living at home for half that year. Then 10 the following season. I went to 3 games last year for the Cubs that I paid for. Went to 7 Sox games for free.
This year, I got Opening Day for the Cubs and will hit 4 more at the very most. My baseball attendance has severely declined because of price. It sucks because there’s no other place I’d rather be in the summer in Chicago than the ballpark.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Me too. But I might change my mind if the ratings are up.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
I’m just messing with ya Spence. Considering the Cubs & Yankees and their “fans” can’t even sell out, it’s everyone.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Youve started a ’2007′ chant before, havent you?
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
I hope it’s not Harrisburg.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
I have no plans to travel to Citi Field this season. Part of that is the fact that getting from central New Jersey to Queens is just an awful process. Part of that is I do not want to give the Wilpons any of my money this year.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
I go to about 12 Nationals games a year and I don’t even like the Nationals and I go to 3 Orioles games (only when they play the Twins)
If I lived in MN, I would totally go to about 20 or so games a year.
/no kids, good job, etc
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Sorry that almost everyone in Philly is morally decrepit and kind of fat so its no big deal if they just waste their evenings in a baseball stadium.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Yeah, but Wrigley’s different, though. It’s one of the world’s largest outdoor bars.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Can we not post the Glenn Beck news until the next thread comes up, please? Pretty please?
April 6th, 2011 at 12:59 PM
I feel like you dont know me at all, Tim.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:59 PM
How many teams do that retarded market pricing? The Giants started that a couple years ago and it’s fucking irritating. Charge one price for the ticket all year damn it. Making prices dirt cheap isn’t going to get me to the ballpark against a shitty team any easier, it’s just going to have me avoiding the “good” teams when the tickets are $20 more. That’s some good beer money I’m wasting!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
is this a shot at SC?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Me too. But I might change my mind if the ratings are up
My interest peaks when the “3-5″ recognizable players are involved
/TBL from 6 months ago
April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
The free preview of MLBB Extra Innings.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
switch the dolans in for wilpons and im right there with you.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
I love everything about Wrigley. Most fun you can have a t a regular season sporting event, non-cfb division.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
I like it when they put the beer between the boobies.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Cell ain’t bad either, man. You can tailgate, they have right field patio seats that are AYCD/AYCE for 90 minutes before the game and the food is excellent. It’s also much, much cheaper to go to a White Sox game.
I just like to watch baseball. 3 and a half hour games in attendance certainly don’t bother me. I’m having a good time sitting there. Hell, when I was unemployed in 2009, I went to Cubs day games by myself with a pocket radio and a scorecard while my friends were at work.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
I have no plans to travel to Citi Field this season
Love that stadium. Sucks that you have to ride a subway for about an hour from Manhattan to get there though lessens the appeal
April 6th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Eh, everyone who can’t even sell out their first few home games. So draw your conclusions.
At least most Phils fans aren’t the embodiment of Big Pussy like Yanks fans are.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
I’ll sit and watch football in any weather – rain, wind, snow, cold, hot, whatever. But for baseball – I’d better be comfortable. Day games in August suck just as much as night games in April.
/going to Buccos game on Sat. night
//weather is supposed to be in the mid 50′s – doable
April 6th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
switch the dolans in for wilpons and im right there with you.
Already made that decision with Cablevision and the Rangers. The Dolan’s are evil people.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
There are 5 different pricing tiers for Cubs games. FIVE. Bleacher tickets can range anywhere from $65 to $95 this year.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Things ARE bleak in Toronto…even during the Rogers Clemens pennant chase days that followed World Series wins…fans in Toronto were not attending. Skydome is a terrible facility, that’s one reason. There is simply very little baseball buzz in that city. A winning team will bring fans back…but if you can’t support the team during bad teams, you are not a fan.
The team is owned by Rogers, which also held fans hostage by moving many games to a channel people had to upgrade their cable to watch. I’d like to thank that was part of the reason but in reality, the sports just isn’t part of the fabric here anymore.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Brewers do that here in MKE…they call the expensive games (Cubs, interleague against Twins, etc.) “marquee” games.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
/looks at SC
//fistpumps
April 6th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
stubhub has super cheap tix to yankee games right now. as in $3 for a ticket.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Anyone else have “What Up With That?” in their heads now?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:05 PM
per ticket?
sheeeeeeeeeeeit, maybe i should consider myself lucky i have a shitty, small market team.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:05 PM
The fuck are you talking about?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
how dare they maximize revenue!?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
The Yankees website and ticketmaster have 5 dollar deals for a bunch of games for the next month. They need to fill that bitch up like a pornstar on camera.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
I’m going to a baseball game tonight, paying $6 a ticket and sitting 6 rows behind the dugout.
Ping!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Rumor is Huey Lewis and the News is playing Jun 11 after the Pirates game in PNC. Better be warm by then.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
I do now, thanks. lol
Damn, and I thought $50 for a bleacher ticket against the Dodgers was high-priced! That’s fucking ridiculous!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
+1
April 6th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
Bleacher tickets can range anywhere from $65 to $95 this year.
$95 for bleachers?!?!? That’s crazy. That has to be part of the explanation for such poor attendance numbers, especially when its cold.
/Keeps on driving
April 6th, 2011 at 1:08 PM
Taking the train from Penn is the way to go. Screw the incredibly slow 7 train.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:08 PM
That’s not rumor – that’s a fact. The downside is you have to watch the Mets first.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:09 PM
It demeans the product. The Yankees sell the Yankees. We’ve talked about this before though. Goodbye.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Things ARE bleak in Toronto…even during the Rogers Clemens pennant chase days that followed World Series wins…fans in Toronto were not attending.
Half the potential audience is stuck at home cooking, ironing and minding the children.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
I took the first weekend of the Tournament off work and didn’t glance here much, was there a post about all the empty seats at those sites or did the college hoops fanboy leave it alone?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Oh and I’m going to four games this year (May, July, August and Sept.) I usually go to six-ten games a year, but the wedding costs forced me to pare down. And I have a general rule that I don’t go to games until May at the earliest.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Looks like that will be the only game I’ll look forward to in the next 5 years. Huey’s a legend.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Thank you! It’s been a while.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Hell yeah, this is why I have a 6 game pack to my Double A team. That and the life size Ryan Howard garden gnome I hope to win.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:11 PM
The $95 ones are marquee games (Cards, Yankees, Brewers, summer night games during the week). Also, bleachers are Wrigley are general admission so if you get there early enough you can sit in the front row.
But yes, $95 is retarded. The 100 Aisle seats are about $125 for a ticket this year. It’s absurd how much the Cubs are charging. I would go to every, single, solitary game if the Cubs were charging what someone like the Tribe is charging. I won’t sit in the upper deck, but I’ll sit far back in the 200s and whatnot. $10 a ticket? YES PLEASE.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:11 PM
wait…is this real?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:12 PM
/comment deleted
April 6th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
A friend bought a bleacher seat from a scalper yesterday for the cubs game for 4 fucking dollars.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
CJ just wants a reason to have a large black man in her house. I see right through you, ceej.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
You poke the bear, you get clawed, son.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:14 PM
holy shit…you can get 81 game season ticket package for bleacher seats for the indians for $729.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:14 PM
You betcha
April 6th, 2011 at 1:14 PM
That’s my plan this season. If I want to go to a game, I’m walking down to the yard in the 2nd inning and finding a scalper who can’t get rid of his tickets.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
OH MY GOD I WANT THIS SO BAD.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
You can get tickets in the section right behind the immediate home plate area for $27 in Pittsburgh. Sure, you have to watch the Pirates, but on a nice summer day/night, it doesn’t much matter who they are playing.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Last summer at an independent minor league game I saw a monkey riding a dog on the field…MLB needs to get on board with this and people will come
April 6th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Also, CJ is doing it right. Minor league baseball is a LOT of fun. We had a single A club in the town I grew up in. $3 to sit on the lawn and all the kid friendly stuff they have there is so much fun. I went to 3 games with my folks last summer. You can get a 24 oz Leinie’s for $4!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
550 lbs. Going right in my backyard to oversee my vegetable garden.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
This article reads like you just cut & pasted from the post about poor attendance at NCAA Tourney Games! man, I… (checks the archives) Hey! That article never ran! What gives?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
It’s the way to go. I saw so many scalpers before the game yesterday offering tickets for 5 bucks. It was crazy. And no way there was 27,000 people at the game. Probably about half that.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
When Skydome opened in 1989 there was a “sky walk” constructed that runs the length of the walk from the train station to the ball park. The Sky Walk was littered with ice cream, pizza and burger stands, offical MLB shops and some darn tasty pretzels. Each shop is closed and now the sky walk features dry wall from end to end
April 6th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
my answer to the question is: Bring back steroids
April 6th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Are they trying to say Ryan Howard weighs 550 pounds? I mean, he’s fat, but he ain’t THAT fat.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
I missed this… A +1 to you good sir for being a good sport.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Was going to ask if you’d even put that outside at the risk of it being stolen but appears as if that’s already been taken care of
April 6th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Damned decision not to refresh…
Last summer at an independent minor league game I saw a monkey riding a dog on the field
You sure that wasn’t an Angels game?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
the cougars?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I have to ask because I’m jealous… What do you grow?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
not really.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
is that what you ladies are calling your backsides nowadays? i mean who gardens vegetables?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
You betcha! Love the KC Cougars. Vez covered them, but you already knew that.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey and the Rally Monkey are not one in the same…I’d like to think the former is envious of the latter’s success considering he actually has a real talent that’s not just holding a sign
April 6th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
And no way there was 27,000 people at the game
“Attendance” just means tickets sold. Do they still announce no-shows at any stadium in America or is that verboten? I honestly don’t know. For some reason I liked reading that when I was 12 but the allure has worn off
April 6th, 2011 at 1:20 PM
if you win it, lemme pick it up for the weekend and run a series of videos of me scaring the shit out of my roommate with it. it’ll be great.
open the closet door…BAM.
pull back the shower curtain…BAM, etc.
then i’ll bring him back so he can watch your vegetables.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:21 PM
I am 100% confident Spence is not joking about making those videos. PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Vez covered them, but you already knew that.
i’ll spare ya a few hundred stories so there’s no backlash on sc
what’s with the great appendectomy outbreak?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Was just tomatoes last year.. this year we’re moving up to tomatoes, hot peppers, bell pepper, zucchini.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:23 PM
So Ubaldo Jimenez is headed to the 15-day Dl…with a cut right thumb cuticle?
April 6th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
I want to thank Sanders for linking that Shamwow lawsuit article because it led me to this.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Yeah, I try to go to a few games every year. Great little stadium.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
I haven’t paid for a Cubs ticket since 2008, and that was for a group.
I have a couple of people whe throw me a ticket from their seasons and that’s when I go.
Just said on radio Cub tix for today are going for $ 2.00 on Craigslist.
/Single Income Married Father with 3 Kids
April 6th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
what’s with the great appendectomy outbreak?
Was thinking the same thing.
/owns both guys on a team
April 6th, 2011 at 1:27 PM
what’s with the great appendectomy outbreak?
to much jizz guzzling
April 6th, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Weather. Price of gas.
Fed up with price of concessions. Yes, they’re optional. Try telling that to the kids I don’t have.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:33 PM
I blame the bowl system.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Top 10 NFL players that would make the best life sized garden gnomes… and GO!
/the Fridge has to make the top 5
April 6th, 2011 at 1:34 PM
I watched an inning of Nationals/Marlins last night and there couldn’t have been more than two thousand in the stadium.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Max McGee but only if they’re able to hollow him out and fit a kegerator inside (where they put the tap is left to be determined)
April 6th, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Tailgate before the game – drink as much beer and eat as much then. We can split a case of beer, some dogs and burgers for $30. Inside the stadium, it would run us at least $100.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
I watched an inning of Nationals/Marlins last night and there couldn’t have been more than two thousand in the stadium.
success!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Has anyone mentioned that it’s April 6th? I’m not sure (I don’t have a schedule on me) but I think there’s a LOT of baseball left to be played. Maybe it’s the odd start of the season (Fucking Thursday?) and the fact that there was threat of Opening Day’s being snowed out.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Polamalu, just for the hair
April 6th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Kris Jenkins, but it’s only good for about a week until the plaster in the legs break.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
The May Day History Will Be Made is awesome.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Top 10 NFL players that would make the best life sized garden gnomes… and GO!
all long snappers!
/assume the position
April 6th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Martin Gramattica
April 6th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Chris Johnson. Throw a mask on him, and boom, you have life size Predator replica, too.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Sigh.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:41 PM
1. jonathan ogden
2. vince wilfork
3. the real LT
4. dick butkus
5. fridge
6. ted hendricks
7. mean joe green
8. larry allen
9. mel blount
10. bernie kosar
April 6th, 2011 at 1:43 PM
Alonzo Spellman
April 6th, 2011 at 1:43 PM
Nobody wants the Ricky Williams life-sized Saints bobblehead? Perfect for re-enacting famous interview moments
April 6th, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Man, it looks like the first two rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament at these baseball parks.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Alonzo Spellman
he’ll scare yer chipminks and gobble yer antidepressants!
April 6th, 2011 at 1:51 PM
stubhub has tickets for tonights yankees game starting at $1.50, upper level.
parking at Yankee Stadium: $35
Beer: $9.50
Hot choclate (no alcohol): $10
soggy luke warm pretzle: $5.00
and baseball wonders why attendance is down? they should lower the costs
April 6th, 2011 at 1:53 PM
parking at Yankee Stadium: $35
This shit right here keeps me away. When the assholes from Boston took over the Dodgers were charging like $6 for parking. I haven’t checked to see what it is this year but it’s somewhere around $35. Fuck that noise
April 6th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Concession prices is not the problem with baseball attendence. All of those prices are about the same for the other main sports. Except for the hot chocolate.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:56 PM
I almost missed this chestnut, though:
and baseball wonders why attendance is down? they should lower the costs
It’s really not. Wait til we’re in the middle of summer and you’ll see some MLB PR coming out with headlines including the words “record attendance”. TBL wonders why attendance is down. The people pocketing money for tickets sold are only wondering how to sell more concessions when all those no-shows turn into actual attendees
April 6th, 2011 at 1:58 PM
The Avett Brothers are playing a free concert after the Braves game Sunday. I hate to miss the final round of the Masters but I got the company tickets behind home plate and its going to be 80.
April 6th, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Please, NFL games are a much crueler form of concession rape.
April 6th, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Please, NFL games are a much crueler form of concession rape.
To be fair those attendance numbers are going to be down 100% this year
April 6th, 2011 at 2:21 PM
Who the fuck drives to Yankee Stadium?
April 6th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Clearly MLB is lacking zip.
April 6th, 2011 at 4:25 PM
When you were arguing the NBA was superior to MLB you used ratings and we used attendance. Yesterday there was a big report that ratings are up for MLB at the start of this season and today you’re arguing attendance is in decline. I believe you know what conclusions I’m drawing from this.
April 23rd, 2011 at 12:08 AM
I went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game last week and I bet I was the only one there. Had the entire place to myself. It was when the Pens played the first playoff game vs Tampa. The Pirates lost of course but I did watch the Pens game on a tv in PNC Park in a nice bar. I have never seen the place so empty. LETS GO BUCS!