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this A's series coming up could be one of the lowest of the year
especially with a noon start on Thursday.
most evening games that i attend are filled with 20-somethings who go for about 6 innings and then hit the Navy Yard area bars. After game lines for the bar near the Hampton Inn always wrap around the block. The bullpen, mission, and the place across from mission are always packed. The ballpark has become a destination for locals, which is good for attendance. If they had built the ballpark out in Virginia or another suburb I imagine it would be a ghost town right now.
Back over 25k average, thank you Phillie fans.
They might be happy with the score but it's miserable outside right now.
22nd per espn:http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance
1,667,285 over 67 dates thru 8/31 with a 24,884 per game average (22nd in MLB) thru 08/21, projecting to a 2,015,604 season 81 game home total.
Just noticed that. I guess that attebdabce will drop away through September, except maybe for visiting fans. Who wants to pay money to see a dead ball team? Might not reach 2 million attendance.
Need 300k to get to last year's total of 1.967 million with 14 home games remaining against the Marlins, Braves, Pirates, and White Sox. Probably don't quite get there with the Braves out of it and three other fan bases that don't travel particularly well.
When all you have left are diehards, you can bleed them dry
the new orioles ownership doesn't seem to be much better than the old.
They have a challenge in that market the Nats don't. Baltimore is too small and doesn't have the $ DC does. No one in Baltimore is paying $250+ for Terra Club. Rubenstein seems better than both Mini Me and Angelos, and I don't fault him for managing to the realities of an actual small market team. They get tons of visiting fans too. Considering they made the playoffs last year, have cheap tickets, and haven't been train wreck bad like this absolute cluster eff in DC, their attendance #'s are exceptionally bad. Given the size of their local economy and media market, the model for them to emulate is KC, not DC.
