Sub-500 Baseball
Ah…the joys of baseball in September…supporting a team with a sub-500 record.
I love the baseball attendance stats that read 41,000 when you know it’s closer to 15k. I wonder how they get away with that. Does MLB fear telling the truth? I think the league believes that if I know only 24,000 fans were at Shea Stadium instead of the announced
38000 that I might quit watching the games. As if they can fool me into thinking that more than 2300 people showed up in Montreal.
I wonder what the ratio is between actual attendance and reported attendance. I wonder how the Pirates and Brewers and Rockies actually draw compared to what we’re told. I’m sure the league would say that the important thing is the tickets that were paid for, but I’m not quite sure that holds water. If half your sold tickets go unused, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that next season those same unused tickets might become unbought tickets?
Using that logic, MLB would be fine if no one attended Expos home games just so long as they sold 25000 tickets per night. An empty stadium, but 25 grand in attendance.
I’m sure that’s just what the doctor ordered.
RANDOM FOOTBALL NOTE
What’s with the facial hair on Jason Elam and Jake Plummer? Plummer looks like a porn star. And someone send the note to Elam that kickers are supposed to be fair-skinned and clean shaven with crazy perms and look like shady Europeans. Facial hair on a kicker to make them look tougher is like getting a supercharger on your Vespa.
