Comments on: Worst Opening Night crowd in over ten years

By: dw

dw — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:42:33 +0000

WINNER! Greatest disparity between number of posts and worth of commentary.

Think of it as a Turn Back The Clock thread, back to the days of the Usenet and low signal-to-noise.

By: Dave in Palo Alto

Dave in Palo Alto — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:33:04 +0000

I.e., commentary contained within the posts.

By: Dave in Palo Alto

Dave in Palo Alto — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:32:16 +0000

WINNER! Greatest disparity between number of posts and worth of commentary.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:25:32 +0000

I guess that would be “deader than normal”, eh, zzyzx?

By: zzyzx

zzyzx — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:45:07 +0000

Karen – I’ve attended quite a few M’s games over the years including every opening day since 96. The crowd was dead.

DMZ – did you influence the Bugs Bunny clip being shown on the DiamondVisiony thing?

By: tangotiger

tangotiger — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:30:37 +0000

Evan, it was poorly presented by Derek and poorly interpreted by some of us.

Derek is a gifted writer, and I (as I’m sure many others did) took his presentation (the headline, the bolding, etc) with the lack of commentary as a commentary.

By: msb

msb — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:25:50 +0000

Iâ€™m hoping this is an omen. Iâ€™ve been saying for the last several years, as long as Mâ€™s fans turn out in droves for a lousy team, the owners will save money and give them a lousy team. (See Cubs, Chicago.) If attendance finally crashes this year, maybe ownership will get the message and start recruiting better players.

that is two separate issues. They spend money, they don’t always spend money on ‘better players’

By: MedicineHat

MedicineHat — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:09:01 +0000

Boycott afte one game? No, I didn’t say that, or infer it….lol. What I said was, one of the onyl ways fans have to show their displeasure of the product is not to go. Some fans show it after one game, I guess. Some after 5 years, in the case of the Cubs, they don’t show it. They keep accepting a bad product. Probably for the reasons you mention….good atmosphere and entertainment. Me, I’m not entertained by bad baseball. That’s what the Mariners have given us over the past year, year to two years. I’ll go when Felix pitches to see good pitching. I’ll go when the good clubs come to town to see good baseball. I won’t go to most games, though. Not until the product they put on the field on a day to day basis improves to “playoff contention caliber.”
The Mariners are not playoff contention caliber…and I didn’t just figure that out after one game.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:50:24 +0000

Factual does not mean clear.

No more than unclear means disingenuous.

If I say that the attendance was the worst in 10 years, that’s all I’ve said. I’ve told you nothing about the size of the variance or the significance of the reduction.

Inference is always the fault of the inferrer.

By: beckya57

beckya57 — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:42:26 +0000

I’m hoping this is an omen. I’ve been saying for the last several years, as long as M’s fans turn out in droves for a lousy team, the owners will save money and give them a lousy team. (See Cubs, Chicago.) If attendance finally crashes this year, maybe ownership will get the message and start recruiting better players.