Whether one likes what was written he's made a few good statistical posts lately. If he keeps doing that it would help to forget that angry political persona that turned dozens against him in those threads.
Come on, Merlot. What does my politics have to do with anything? Angry? Why, because I don't agree with you and others here? Politics shouldn't be discussed in the baseball thread, although I saw rumps trying to sneak it in in one of his recent posts.
The Yankees have done a great job with the difficult conditions they have faced all year. But taking out both the hyper pro and hyper anti Yankee view, there must come a time when there are too many cracks in the bridge to keep it up if they multiply to the breaking point no team can keep winning against.
..."do simple math, rumps, using your numbers, rumps, NY gets more attendance than Boston."
Boston - 37,000 * .877 = 32,475 average,
New York - 50,291 * .743 = 37,366 average.
This is a humiliating admission the author should have been wiser not to make. New York only draws a miniscule 5,000 more fans in a city that has 7.6 million more people than Boston, besides the fact the drawing numbers are still 13,000 below capacity for the Yankees, and 5,000 below capacity for Boston. It's very sad 7.6 million don't care about..."Yankee Pride".
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Merlot
The reason why New York has not drawn as many fans as maybe a few years ago, is because of a couple reasons:
1. The ticket prices at the new Yankee stadium is more, probably much more. Families don't have the $ to spend $200 to $400 or more for decent seats. Ok, there are the bleacher seats and seats on the top level. I have not been in the new stadium. I watch the games on the Yes channel or the alternative station. The last game I went to was before they tore down the old stadium. I and a few friends paid $38 a ticket to sit in Right field in maybe the 10th row from the wall. Today that seat goes for $93. You can get seats on the 3rd or 4th level, which is pretty high up and pay $42 to $57. Bleacher tickets are $13 to $21, but I remember from the old stadium they go fast and again you are pretty far out to see a baseball game. I imagine the seats that are not sold are the more expensive seats.
2. Seeing games on TV are cheap. Most Cable plans come with the Yes channel, which is the Yankee station. And the few $ per month per subscriber the Yankees get for the Yes channel probably adds up to compensate for the lack in attendance. Plus, the Yankees have about 4,000 less seats in the new stadium than the old stadium. They built extra boxes for corporations. This revenue probably more than makes up for the revenue loss in less attendance.
3. Minor League teams near Major League cities
So this harping on attendance to Yankee home games is rather lame. It's not how they are making most of their money. I bet if the Yankees did lower their ticket prices they would get more people coming to the game. By the way, the Philadelphia Phillies most expensive ticket in the entire park is $78. You can get very good tickets for $43 a piece. The Phillies probably have been averaging around 38,000 fans per game. This is even low for Philadelphia. A few years ago, you would be hard pressed to get a ticket to Phillies game. I venture to say major league baseball attendance has dropped in the last couple years because of the
1. economy
2. cable access to the games.
3. cheaper alternative of Minor League games near the cities which have Major League teams. In NY, you can travel to Scranton Wilkes Barre, Trenton, Staten Island or Brooklyn to see a minor league game.
