2024 Attendance Predictions

[OfftheBat]

The Friday night game I saw 1 person in Nats gear, a Soto jersey.

Saturday night I saw 2. One before the game in a Scherzer jersey and 1 guy in a Nats T-shirt.

Dang, I guess these numbers will keep dwindling if the Lerners don't pay up for top FAs this Winter.

[OfftheBat]

Truist may be the only MLB park I have no desire to visit...it sounds like an absolute hellhole. At least you can escape from The Trop on foot.

I'm curious, why would you say that it is a hellhole? (I've never been btw)

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I haven't been there either, but from what I've heard and read it's got about as much character as a Powerpoint presentation and one pretty much has to drive there. 

I'm curious, why would you say that it is a hellhole? (I've never been btw)

[OfftheBat]

"PowerPoint presentation" 

[Senatorswin]

I haven't been there either, but from what I've heard and read it's got about as much character as a Powerpoint presentation and one pretty much has to drive there.

Truist is outside of Atlanta. You can see the downtown buildings from there. You have to stay in a hotel within walking distance of Truist. Driving anywhere near Atlanta is a nightmare. Once I was at the hotel I never got back in my car until I left. But you don't need to go anywhere. The Battery has everything. Bars, Restaurants, ice cream stores, clothes stores etc. It's a real party atmosphere on gamedays. I was only there over a weekend but it's a happening place. The stadium itself is connected to the Battery and is nice. Multiple big screens that tell you everything you'd want to know including speed of the ball off the bat.

I stayed at the Rennaissance Hotel. You just go across a walk bridge and you're at the Battery. I didn't see any public transportation to the Battery.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Atlanta was designed that way, but it's very suburban, was built within a bland Reston Town Center type of development.

Truist is outside of Atlanta. You can see the downtown buildings from there. You have to stay in a hotel within walking distance of Truist. Driving anywhere near Atlanta is a nightmare. Once I was at the hotel I never got back in my car until I left. But you don't need to go anywhere. The Battery has everything. Bars, Restaurants, ice cream stores, clothes stores etc. It's a real party atmosphere on gamedays. I was only there over a weekend but it's a happening place. The stadium itself is connected to the Battery and is nice. Multiple big screens that tell you everything you'd want to know including speed of the ball off the bat.

I stayed at the Rennaissance Hotel. You just go across a walk bridge and you're at the Battery. I didn't see any public transportation to the Battery.

Seems like you are saying the same thing. Truist is not an Atlanta experience. It is a suburb / planned development experience.

[Senatorswin]

Seems like you are saying the same thing. Truist is not an Atlanta experience. It is a suburb / planned development experience.

Exactly. I have no idea how Atlanta is.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

A bit like the Gaylord atrium "airboat swamp tours"

Seems like you are saying the same thing. Truist is not an Atlanta experience. It is a suburb / planned development experience.

[IanRubbish]

I've said this before, but if any of you come out to the West Coast, Petco is by far the best park to visit.  The weather's usually good, the immediate neighborhood has tons of restaurants and bars, and is "real", with decent restaurants.  The stadium area itself is great with a berm just past RF where you can sit on the grass, not unlike in a minor league game. 

[varoadking]

A bit like the Gaylord atrium "airboat swamp tours"

We were staying there once when they had someone "skydive" inside the atrium.  It was a sponsored event, not some fool on a suicide mission.  Or was he?

[IanRubbish]

Thinking the Marlins series will be really good for the W-L record, but really rough for the attendance numbers.  Doubt they get 80k for the 4 games.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Thinking the Marlins series will be really good for the W-L record, but really rough for the attendance numbers.  Doubt they get 80k for the 4 games.

1924 celebration! fireworks, bobbleheads, pennants!

[IanRubbish]

88,000 to tie last year's total with 8 to go. 

Let's see what the 1924 championship bobblehead does for tonight's numbers. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

88,000 to tie last year's total with 8 to go. 

Let's see what the 1924 championship bobblehead does for tonight's numbers. 

dude, it's the WNFF meet and greet day. About half the regular posting members show up for that. Should add 8 to 10 to the attendance.

[IanRubbish]

Clinched 23k per game.  In a tight race for 22nd with the Twins.  They play meaningful baseball this weekend, at least on Friday, but we've got Phillie fans coming in who might help us hold our spot.