MLB's enormous attendance drop due to bad weather or something far worse for baseball?
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MLB's enormous attendance drop due to bad weather or something far worse for baseball?
It’s just April. Because this is baseball, that is an entirely reasonable explanation for the problem. And so, too, is the weather, the nasty, Mother Nature-must-be-pissed-at-someone sort of frigid that canceled half a dozen more games Sunday afternoon and is threatening to set records for postponements.
And yet one look at the numbers across Major League Baseball shows a grim landscape. Not in home runs (which are down) or strikeouts (which are up) but attendance. Which isn’t just down – it is down precipitously, enough that one league official expressed concern that this isn’t simply a manifestation of the weather but something deeper and more troublesome for the game.
I just scanned the article, and this may have been mentioned, but I didn't see it...my two cents, is the MLB attendance decline could actually be NFL football related.
Not every, but i think most if not certainly many MLB fans are also NFL fans. We all know the story about the shenanigans that occurred in the NFL during the past season with the kneelers, protesters, etc, which turned off many NFL fans. Perhaps these same fans just decided to avoid MLB as well? They found other things to do, and perhaps they now like doing that rather than going to a professional sports game such as the NFL or MLB.
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no need to bring the anthem into it baseball is slow and boring the games are getting longer every year and mlb refuses to act
I know the weather here in Illinois is crazy for April. It's 80 one day and 30 the next.
Maybe more and more people are looking at sports like I do. I can see it better on my big screen TV and it's free and the food and drink at my house is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper. And I can pause the game anytime I need too.
I really don't see why anyone would want to spend all that money and get less. For what it would cost to go to a game I can buy a nice Barber coin.
No NFL connection to the attendance dip. See what the numbers look like in 30 days.
Maybe it is the added safety netting that has turned off the crowds.
Or perhaps this shows that the hullabaloo from the Right wing media about the NFL decline wasn't only related to the peaceful protests by a small number of players.
Robb
only people over 40 watch baseball and a bunch dropped dead
In the case of the Marlins, they are reporting the actual turnstile count rather than paid attendance which includes season tickets. Along with the weather-
In 11 markets, affecting 13 teams, the average temperature is at least 10 degrees below the average compared to the previous four years. Three clubs have played in average temperatures that are 20 degrees lower than the average in the previous four years. Nine clubs have played in temperatures that are averaging 40 or below.
Weather. We just got 17 inches of snow here in Minneapolis.
Weather, other sports playing, boring, and pricing. Those are the factors for me.
I've gone back to the old, old, days. Am enjoying listening to most games on the radio while doing other things.