974 Fans Attended Rays vs. White Sox

[AlaskaGuy]

Report: 974 Fans Attended Rays vs. White Sox Game at Guaranteed Rate Field

 

[Fountain City Blues]

It's cold as fuck for April and the White Sux are ass. Of course if I end up in Chicago I'll probably be there in April once a year so

 

[navamind]

how many were Rays fans

 

[calsnowskier]

Missed the record by a measly 974 fans...

 

[The Derski]

Still looks less full than that Orioles game during the riots.

 

[MarinersBestFan]

Tough day to be a scalper trying to unload tickets I bet !

 

[wazzu31]

Global warming is killing baseball

 

[JohnU]

I can say for sure, it was foo tucking cold to play ball in Chicago. The 974 were probably the folks who had to drive their kids to the ballpark so they could work concessions.

 

[Cyder]

The Staten Island Yankees (A Ball) and Brooklyn Cyclones (Mets A team) will probably outdraw these 2 teams.

 

[richig07]

Report: 974 Fans Attended Rays vs. White Sox Game at Guaranteed Rate Field

Look... I don't deny that the White Sox attendance has always been lackluster. When the team stinks, people don't care to show. It's not like on the North Side where it's a party, regardless. Guaranteed Rate is in between south side housing projects. lol

The White Sox home games have mostly all been played with windchill in the 20's to this point (up until yesterday... the first day where the temp broke 40). They've played two games played in the snow.

Games for the Rays series were moved up during the afternoon in the middle of a work week.

That on top of a lake effect snowstorm the morning of the game. You're not going to draw dick. Even the Cubs home opener had some noticeably empty seats at Wrigley. Which never happens.

The White Sox grounds crew had to do snow removal to prepare the field for that game. lol. People don't want to watch baseball in that.

 

[JohnU]

Look... I don't deny that the White Sox attendance has always been lackluster. When the team stinks, people don't care to show. It's not like on the North Side where it's a party, regardless. Guaranteed Rate is in between south side housing projects. lol

The White Sox home games have mostly all been played with windchill in the 20's to this point (up until yesterday... the first day where the temp broke 40). They've played two games played in the snow.

Games for the Rays series were moved up during the afternoon in the middle of a work week.

That on top of a lake effect snowstorm the morning of the game. You're not going to draw dick. Even the Cubs home opener had some noticeably empty seats at Wrigley. Which never happens.

The White Sox grounds crew had to do snow removal to prepare the field for that game. lol. People don't want to watch baseball in that.

Back in the day before MLB got so greedy and let the individual teams decide their own destiny, this game would have been postponed because of the weather. It's stupid to think fans want to endure this. But it yielded some interesting info -- that there are about 10,000 season ticket holders for the Sox.

 

[Carnzo]

Well Fenway has good crowds even without the Yankees.
I blame the (so called) fans

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

Well Fenway has good crowds even without the Yankees.
I blame the (so called) fans

For the cost of a ticket to Fenway you are either crazy for buying them, and even crazier not to use them

 

[JohnU]

I wonder who really does have the final call on this.
The field crew can say the field is playable, which is their only responsibility.
The umpires are OK with that as well.
I wonder why the various club trainers don't get to weigh in on it. This isn't good for the players (and I don't care what their salaries are) ... and the vendors have to open their booths for no good reason.
Are there just that many brain-deads out there who can't say, "ya know, nobody is coming here today, so do some actual work at your desk and we will play this game the next chance we get."

 

[tducey]

Poor weather seems to be to blame here and nothing else. Still if you're getting weather that cold in April why not postpone the game until the summer when it'd be warmer?

 

[navamind]

a game with shitty weather, afternoon game in April, and two mediocre teams with few recognizable players drew poorly

shocking

 

[JohnU]

The dimwit who wrote the article blames the fans for it and even goes so far as to quote an attendance figure as being misleading because the photo proves it. He clearly has zero idea how attendance is figured and did no research before pounding out a bit of "journalism."

 

[Gopherfan84]

how many were Rays fans

Probably more than show up for their home games.

 

[megalodon30]

Looks like a high school game.

 

[LambeauLegs]

I think it may be a challenge to fit all these postponed games in by seasons end. I think the full 3 game series in MN was postponed with the damn blizzard up that way