MLB Attendance Way Down
There are a lot of reasons for attendance at professional sporting events to be down. It's expensive in terms of money and time. Fighting traffic and paying for parking doesn't help the cause when the game is on TV almost all the time. And there are other competitors for scarce entertainment dollars.
The attendance in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore has been affected by weather in April which has been less than Spring like. The term fair weather fan is more than a cliche when the season is long and drawn out. Things will improve as the weather becomes more seasonal.
Unfortunately some teams are not competitive and it takes some real effort to be enthused when it is a real possibility the home team will lose 100 or more games in the year. AL Central teams: Detroit, Chicago, and Kansas City are in a bad way when it comes to talent.
Going through the motions and not fielding a competitive team in the name of rebuilding isn't fair to fans. Maybe there are too many games in general and too many meaningless games between also rans.
And then there are the Miami Marlins whose attendance is abysmal. How you count attendance isn't that important, they count tickets sold and not those given away or sold at a deep discount. Hardly anybody is showing up to the games at ay price. They traded away all there "stars" and the results have been predictable, their AA team in Jacksonville drew more fans than the MLB team on a Wednesday night in April.
Derek Jeter is probably a nice guy, but I'm not too sure he is a showman or even a great basebball mind.
The attendance in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore has been affected by weather in April which has been less than Spring like. The term fair weather fan is more than a cliche when the season is long and drawn out. Things will improve as the weather becomes more seasonal.
Unfortunately some teams are not competitive and it takes some real effort to be enthused when it is a real possibility the home team will lose 100 or more games in the year. AL Central teams: Detroit, Chicago, and Kansas City are in a bad way when it comes to talent.
Going through the motions and not fielding a competitive team in the name of rebuilding isn't fair to fans. Maybe there are too many games in general and too many meaningless games between also rans.
And then there are the Miami Marlins whose attendance is abysmal. How you count attendance isn't that important, they count tickets sold and not those given away or sold at a deep discount. Hardly anybody is showing up to the games at ay price. They traded away all there "stars" and the results have been predictable, their AA team in Jacksonville drew more fans than the MLB team on a Wednesday night in April.
Derek Jeter is probably a nice guy, but I'm not too sure he is a showman or even a great basebball mind.
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