This article has not one, but TWO very glaring errors

Estil

The proofreader seriously needs to look for another line of work.

Cleveland set a Major League Baseball record in 2001 after selling out every single home game since June 1995. The tide changed that year, when it lost to Seattle in the first round of the playoffs. The team never performed again at the winning level it had in the 90’s, only making the playoffs once over the decade, losing a heartbreaking world series to the Red Sox. Attendance then plummeted even further, dropping to just 1.39 million from 3.17 million ten years ago. In 2001, Cleveland drew the fifth-most fans in all of baseball. Last year, the team had the lowest attendance. The team also set a major league record for the lowest attendance in a single game — just 9,853 people showed up to the second home game of the season.



I'll let you guys read the above paragraph and you tell me what's wrong with it. Geez, you'd think professionals in sports news would be better than this.

TheTalkingWalnut

I saw that too and thought WTF about the WS. Don't see the other error, but I'm scanning it very quickly.

mlbfan2

The 9,853 fans wasn't even close to an all-time MLB low. I think it was an all-time low for their ballpark, until they broke it again the very next game.

ymarea

If memory serves me correctly, Cleveland actually beat the Red Sox in that "heartbreaking World Series."

Dboneesq

Do you think the writer was the only one at the Indians-Red Sox World Series?

Edited to add: Click on the OPs LINK and you will see that the writer has corrected some of the errors he made.

milbroco

I think I remember a game in the 1950's with only a handful of paid attendance spectators.

57loaded

i doubt that article was all proofreading errors.