As I cruised through web today, I stumbled on a
Bleacher Report feature judging baseball's worst
fair weather fans. It's an easy story for the site, famous for slideshows and captions, to do. These can be fun to buzz through. This one, though, just doesn't hold up.
Sports is apparently the one business where the customers are castigated for not buying the product. If a
movie bombs or a
car doesn't sell, critics point out the deficiencies of the product. Maybe it's because teams disguise themselves as representatives of the cities they play in.
That makes it seem almost unpatriotic to not go the games. While it's easy to get wrapped in the notion, the reality is that team owners are quick to move or threaten to move to get whatever tax breaks or new stadiums they want.
And then there's the biggest problem with the thesis of the post: Somehow it was deduced that when teams had bad years attendance dropped. And, amazingly, when teams play they sold more tickets.
Sherlock Holmes would be proud.
Even the Yankees have had their problems at the gate. Back in the early '90s when
George Steinbrenner was suspended by major league baseball,
getting tickets to a game was not so difficult.
