Its pathetic really for the Reds to be done the way they are.Reds fans are loyal to the core but even they know you cant polish a turd and that's what the current owners give to the fans.Old Marge was a hard *** and she could be a hand full but she wanted to win and did her best.Its a shame that this is the product they are telling fans to pay their hard earned money for.
MLB ATTENDANCE LOWS
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Jesus. Aren’t the owners the same as the Browns? Or did I make that up?
The situation in Oakland is kind of a perfect storm of awfulness. The Coliseum is something of a dump that’s been known to flood with sewage under the wrong conditions and the fight over a new stadium has turned ugly with the team threatening to move to Vegas if they don’t get a ton of concessions from the local government. If that’s not enough, they’ve basically decided not to be competitive this year and traded most of their proven players. I would be careful trying to glean any league wide trends from that mess.
Basketball was cool and quirky but basically it was a big niche sport with a large cult following. Football was solid but it was mostly for blue collar types. MLB was king for a hundred years until it shot itself in the face with those strikes in the 90s.
All my life I’ve known very few people that pay any attention to baseball. It could disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow and I wouldn’t even notice.
Oakland fans are boycotting the team. They continuously trade away their beat players every year. I dont blame them!
That’s insane! Idk how the afford these contracts in some cities, I know NYY, Mets, Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers have good attendance but some are just ghost town. I’ve seen games going for as low as $7 to $10 online. That’s a steal. I’d check out some games for those prices.
Moneyball! Glad the Braves were able to land Olsen from them though. Even though I wish the would have resigned Freeman. He should have been a lifer.
I hope the Reds fans don’t show up at all. I hope it’s a ghost town. I would say anyone who wants to attend would be better to stay outside and protest rather than pay to watch that crap.
The one good thing about living around Louisville is I get to see a team as good as the Reds anything I want for like $5 or free most of the time. I know tons of people who always give away tickets to AAA games. It’s a good time.
MLB needs to go to like a 100 game schedule for real. Make each game count that much more. Have pitchers who can pitch longer. I can’t believe Kershaw had a perfect game going and they pulled him in the 7th on 80 pitches. Unthinkable in the 1990’s. You couldn’t have pulled Pedro, Johnson, Maddux, Smoltz, Schilling, Clemons, off a mound with a bulldozer like that.
I want to say you could get like upper deck tickets for like 10 bucks. It's not really that bad compared to other places. The parking I think I've seen anywhere between 10 and 20. The food I think was reasonable too lol.
I'm a Mets fan so I try to go whenever they are in Cincy and Pittsburgh since those are the closest stadiums to me.
To me, the baseball attendance issue is a time issue. Kids these days aren't interested in spending 3 hours at a sporting event.
Obviously don't want to generalize people but attention spans just isn't what they used to be.
Obviously don't want to generalize people but attention spans just isn't what they used to be.
Hard to expect people to go sit for 3 and half hours to see game 4 of 162. Too many games and they're too long.
I figured it wouldn’t be too much. Might have to take the dam to Cincy soon. Thanks man. How did you become a Mets fan? Thanks for not being a damn Yankee. Lol
Haha grew up in New York. Basically lived at Shea stadium for the majority of my childhood.
Cannot stand the Yankees. I'm trying to do to all of the MLB stadiums and see at least one game in each one. But I haven't been to Yankee stadium yet and have no real desire to lol.
Another option is if you guys have a minor league affiliate nearby, those are pretty good games to take kids to. Cheaper option and very fan friendly IMO. I used to take my step daughters to those games when they were younger. They don't even like baseball and had fun lol.
I know Lexington has a team tho I'm not sure if they are affiliated with a minor league team or not since I know MLB got rid of alot of them.
Fun fact, I once drove from Charleston WV to Lexington KY to see a game. When I got there the parking lot was empty. It was then I realized that the game was actually a HOME GAME for Charleston. SMFH lol.
I know Lexington has a team tho I'm not sure if they are affiliated with a minor league team or not since I know MLB got rid of alot of them.
Fun fact, I once drove from Charleston WV to Lexington KY to see a game. When I got there the parking lot was empty. It was then I realized that the game was actually a HOME GAME for Charleston. SMFH lol.
When I retired nearly 6 years ago, most of the new hires in our area of the facility didn't follow sports at all. The ones that did were mostly into the fantasy aspect of it and watched games at home or in sports bars. There are just too many other entertainment options that don't require 3+ hours of watching on television or 5+ hours if you go out to the ball park, counting travel time, parking, etc.
I go to several minor league games a year. Love it. Get seats behind home plate, have some brats or loaded nachos, peanuts for the late innings and 2-3 beers to wash it down. The atmosphere is very relaxed.
The game is just too slow moving. Sports that last three + hours have mostly all been dealt a slow death. That's also what happened to Nascar IMO. They just had a legend that a lot of people liked with Earnhardt either as a star or a villain and once he died the sport died. If college football didn't have great tailgating attendance for it would be down more than it is. Team's like Tennessee play styles that drags it on for four hours with the current clock rules.
Does an MLB game exist if nobody was there to see it? Crazy to see major league sporting events so empty.
The sport has a definite generational problem. Its pace of play is just too slow for most in today’s short-attention-span younger generations to follow. They wanna see constant movement, not guys standing in the field mostly doing nothing until it’s time to return to the dugout.
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Bingo on the pace of the game .. who wants to set thru 3 pitching changes in a 7-2 game in the 7th , while the coaches discuss things like its as important as pressing the red button on the nuclear bomb . Ot the batter go through some " look at me being cool" routine for 60 seconds between pitches .
I try to go a couple of times here a year especially when the Mets affiliate comes into town to play. Unfortunately the team in Charleston no longer has an MILB team and they play in an independent league now. But I'll probably check out a few. Yeah......very relaxed atmosphere.
Ya gotta go to Yankee Stadium if your gonna visit them all.I guess I'm about the only Yankee fan in Kentucky,lol.
Cant help it I started liking them during the 1976 WS against the Reds.Im a Reds fan also but Thurman Munson became one of my favs and got me hooked on them.Still remember that August day in 1979 when he died in that plane crash.Derek Jeter just knew how to play the game.
Reds management is now going around to fans in the stands and making them remove their "$ell the team Bob" bags or be ejected from the stadium. No profanities, just a well deserved shot at ownership. Skin thinner than their bullpen. The **** stew just got a bit spicier...epic fail from top to bottom...time for a ceremonial manager execution and a May fire sale.
They couldn't do anything about the plane trolling overhead.
They couldn't do anything about the plane trolling overhead.
Should also stop being like the idiots at Disney. As the great Michael Jordan said, “Republicans buy shoes, too.” Pro sports have been hijacked by Obama suck ups. Sorry, but it’s true.
Sports in general are over saturated. On any given night if you have cable there are 4-5 baseball games on. College Basketball attendance has fallen off also I would guess. When I were young High School BB teams in Kentucky would have a near full gym for games. Not anymore
If we got a team in Nashville I'd go but only if prices were cheap.
I dont really go to titans or press games though. Nashville traffic blows and if I watch, rather do it at home.
I dont really go to titans or press games though. Nashville traffic blows and if I watch, rather do it at home.
Agree,but also there used to be local softball tournaments on weekends and hardly see any of that anymore.Im not even sure about rec leagues either.Id day that there are still some but not as much as it used to be.
Different times indeed.When I was a kid,my friends and I would always be outside playing ball,riding bicycles etc....
Pure joy.
Yeah back in the summer I went to a USA world cup qualifier at Nissan Stadium. Getting out of there was brutal lol.
I largely tuned out MLB during Covid-shortened 2020. I was actually jazzed up about the 2021 season before it started…..
…and on the second day of gas season MLB announced it was moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta because on the Georgia election law. That was a sh!tty dick move and I’ve been pretty much done with MLB. Their labor problems haven’t helped either.
Honestly haven’t watched any MLB at all and haven’t even kept up with the standings, etc. I find that I don’t even miss it.
St. Louis is a great baseball town. I know the Yankees have won more World Series titles, but not even they have the tradition and fan following of the Cardinals.Yea in all seriousness it’s a problem. The cardinals have done a great job of offering great promotional, fantastic food, of course local Anheuser Busch beer that people flock to ect. Went to about 5 games last year and paid 22 bucks for 4 good seats and ate free hotdogs all game.
Gotta figure it out. Some of these teams are just really poorly run.
Ballpark village has really changed the game around Busch. I think other teams need to consider expanding their idea of what “going to a baseball game” is.
answer is at least 99 innings in a row without holding a lead (don't know if they have played any extra inning games, but 11 losses in a row without holding a lead at the end of an inning)
Back to topic, style of play is not exciting, walks + Ks + occasional HRs = longer games with less action. In short, a recipe to kill fan interest.