Posted on 09/20/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Not a big baseball fan. This isn't newsworthy. I'm not pimping a blog. I know not many people care. I also know there are more important things to talk about. Hurricanes. North Korea. Global Cooling. Healthcare. Tax Reform. Pizza...definitely pizza. Trump's Tweets - and he put out a mother lode of them today.
But I'm sitting here in a Long Island bar, Millers Ale House in Lake Grove, and they have this game on with Red Sox ace Chris Sale pitching and the stands are pretty much empty. Just thought I'd point that out.
Not a big baseball fan but I never remember a game that had this few people in the stands.
Those Cleveland Indians...they have now won 25 of the last 26 games. How amazing is that? Maybe they draw a bigger crowd.
Blech.
The seats are already sold to corporations and the little guy gets screwed
Many people don’t realize that despite being known as “America’s pasttime” (at least for propaganda purposes), Major League Baseball teams often did not have such big attendance figures until recent decades. For instance, the Philadelphia Phillies, in one of the 5 largest cities in the country, never averaged 10,000 tickets per game until the late 1940s and never averaged 20,000 tickets per game until Veterans Stadium opened in the 1970s. So even though we may think of stadiums packed with people for the World Series, etc., that has often been far from the case during the regular season, especially on weekdays and for teams in smaller markets and/or teams not at the top of the standings.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/philattn.shtml
I was a groupie at Yankee Stadium....knew all the security guards....free games...free concerts, hockey games at MSG, danced on the pitcher’s mound when the won the world series in 1978....even brought home a chunk of right field....pictures with Ron Guidry, Rick Cerrone, Jim Spencer (RIP)..and many more..Steinbrenner’s autograph....yes I made him write “to my friendly pal”....a bratty teen practically living at Yankee Stadium and what a blast we had!!!!
The Orioles have lost eleven of their last thirteen and fallen out of any chance of the playoffs. Usually when the Sox or the Yankees are in town we get a lot of their fans, but so late in the season I guess that doesn’t apply. Actually going to the game Friday night against the Rays (fireworks after the game).
When the Orioles get pitching, they don’t get hitting. When they get hitting, they don’t get pitching. They are just not very good this year.
Now I know what they mean by a “softball” question.
I’ve known a few people from Chicago who brought those out west with them. The second time I saw one the guy who had it was thrilled I knew what it was, even though I wasn’t from Chicago.
If one reviews average MLB attendance figures over the past century, many teams did not break averages of 10,000 tickets per game and then later 20,000 tickets per game until recent decades. Earlier decades typically had far lower attendance for most teams. So much of the history of MLB is of playing to mostly empty or half-empty stadiums, until recent decades when some (by no means all) teams got their averages up to 30K or even 40K per game. For instance, when the Baltimore Orioles had their tremendous teams in the early 1970s, they averaged only around 12,000 tickets per game.... this during a period when they had a bunch of future Hall of Fame players and went to the World Series 5 out of 6 years!!
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/baltatte.shtml
I’m dating myself but I well remember the Orioles of the late ‘60s to mid-70s when they went to the World Series just about every year! Those were some teams!! As a life-long Red Sox fan I dreaded playing them but had to admire them. Pitching and Hitting in those teams....
Same here.
Don't care, don't watch.
Don't care, don't watch.
The design of Camden Yards (retro-classic) has influenced almost every ballpark built post 1992. The home of the Phillies, Citizens Bank Park, is a retro-classic ballpark.
Baseball should be played in the daylight.
Oh, I remember those teams too. Bleacher seats were all of 90 cents. But even the monster teams of 69 - 70 - 71, the Os never drew a million at Memorial Stadium. They would average about 10 - 12 thousand a game. They do better at Camden Yards and have made the playoffs three times in the last four years. But not this year...
; )
Games late in the season, after the kids are back in school, for a team with no playoff chances, will get small crowds.
I remember going to RFK.
I remember lots of the guys. Frank Howard. Ken McMullen. Don Lock. Jim King. Paul Casanova. Mike Epstein. Ed Brinkman. Tim Cullen. Bob Saverine. Ed Stroud. Phil Ortega. Mike McCormick. Pete Richert. Don Blasingame. Darold Knowles. Del Unser. Joe Coleman.
Great memories.
Then you need to visit North Ave and Greenmount, Johns Hopkins Hospital area, or Mondawmin. Hard to believe, but it can get a lot worse in Balto than the area surrounding the ballparks.
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