QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 10:52 PM)
The attendance for game 2 last year was 14,213. It was under 11,000 today IIRC from the game thread. Both days IIRC were miserable. 43° F for last year's at game time according to the box score.
I think that does suggest a very substantial erosion of season ticket sales.
Yep. I'm guessing there were about 0 walk ups today. Obviously a drop was to be expected. Even a big one. But 28% if it's around there is really damn big. Thats a very scary number as caulfield noted above.Not that this is by any means a perfect science here.
QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 11:37 PM)
I think it's silly to blame the customer of any business for not buying the product.
I certainly wasn't blaming anyone as I wasn't there.
QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 11:38 PM)
Lower your expectations.
Ha agreed.
QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 11:59 PM)
How is any of this a surprise? White Sox fans are massive bandwagon fans and the team sucked last year. Fans won't come back until we win again. The fans are the reason why we need to get the rebuild as short as possible.
Didn't really say it's a surprise but now that you mention it, it is kind of shocking when you've seen 1000s of games and this is the single lowest attendance you've ever seen.
QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 12:00 AM)
You must not have seen any of the 70's or 80's then.
Correct.
QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:24 AM)
Nope, made me laugh.
Good. I usually just make you mad. We're making progress.