20 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The gatekeeper thing was always the weirdest thing about being a Sox fan. First off Sox fans are extremely bandwagon. When they are bad, everyone disappears. When times are good, everyone shows back up. Look at attendance numbers and TV ratings.

It’s almost as if some Sox fans want us to perpetually be a small fanbase, low attendance, small revenue stream franchise. If you’re not from the South Side (specifically south of Cermak) or S/SW suburbs, if you haven’t been a lifelong fan, you’re lesser of a fan.

By this insular logic, we’d have the smallest market size by far in MLB.

8 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

It’s almost as if some Sox fans want us to perpetually be a small fanbase, low attendance, small revenue stream franchise. If you’re not from the South Side (specifically south of Cermak) or S/SW suburbs, if you haven’t been a lifelong fan, you’re lesser of a fan.

By this insular logic, we’d have the smallest market size by far in MLB.

And we sit absolutely last in MLB in revenue.

51 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The gatekeeper thing was always the weirdest thing about being a Sox fan. First off Sox fans are extremely bandwagon. When they are bad, everyone disappears. When times are good, everyone shows back up. Look at attendance numbers and TV ratings.

“We’re always overlooked, under-appreciated, and disrespected!”

*The Sox attract more attention and more casual fans*

“f*** off you fairweather fans, this is MY team!”

2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

And we sit absolutely last in MLB in revenue.

We were last in 2024, which makes sense. But we're probably closer to 20 than 30 this year.

12 minutes ago, chw42 said:

We were last in 2024, which makes sense. But we're probably closer to 20 than 30 this year.

You would think so, but that would mean an extra $100 million-ish in revenue, and they sure haven't acted like.

3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

I am not talking about giving up 2005, but talking about the last 20 years.

I wasn't responding to your post though. And don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating to sucking most of the time haha. I just said that I prefer 1 title to a whole bunch of division titles and nothing to show for it.

4 hours ago, Snopek said:

Right on. I hope most fans feel this way instead of being all gatekeepery.

There’s plenty of room on the bandwagon. Come have fun with us.

Yep, you see a ton of folks with Sox caps all over the place here in Texas, a lot of them are in fact former Chicagoans like me... hopefully, especially with the younger ones, they not only like the Sox hat, but also the team.

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3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

The gatekeeper thing was always the weirdest thing about being a Sox fan. First off Sox fans are extremely bandwagon. When they are bad, everyone disappears. When times are good, everyone shows back up. Look at attendance numbers and TV ratings.

That's like 90% of fanbases tho. And probably 100% of baseball fanbases. What stadium is packed when their team sucks? I can't think of a single one. Cubs I guess but they haven't really sucked in awhile, be interesting to see what would happen if they had a 100 loss season.

13 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

That's like 90% of fanbases tho. And probably 100% of baseball fanbases. What stadium is packed when their team sucks? I can't think of a single one. Cubs I guess but they haven't really sucked in awhile, be interesting to see what would happen if they had a 100 loss season.

The Cubs would draw 3 million people if they had the Sox 2024. It's been almost 30 years since they drew UNDER 2.5 million.

29 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

That's like 90% of fanbases tho. And probably 100% of baseball fanbases. What stadium is packed when their team sucks? I can't think of a single one. Cubs I guess but they haven't really sucked in awhile, be interesting to see what would happen if they had a 100 loss season.

15 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The Cubs would draw 3 million people if they had the Sox 2024. It's been almost 30 years since they drew UNDER 2.5 million.

The Cubs lost 101 in 2012 and drew 2.88M. The next year, they lost 96 games and drew 2.64M. They haven't drawn fewer than 2.64M people since 1997. The Rockies and Angels also draw well even when they're bad.

On the other hand, since 1994, the only times the Sox have drawn more than 2.5M were 2006-2008.....and they needed a 163rd game to get just barely over 2.5M in '08. This fan base can't afford to engage in gatekeeping.