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Attendance to Date: 12.5% Over 2011

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Should go over the 1,000,000 mark today, 38 home dates in (there will only be 80 this year due to an unscheduled doubleheader earlier this season to make up a rainout). Looking down the road, the O's have a Thursday-Sunday series with the Yankees on Sept. 6-9 and a Friday-Sunday series with the Red Sox on Sept. 28-30. They have a weekday series with the Red Sox on August 14-16. No other huge draws like the Nats and Phillies, but I'm reasonably optimistic they can reach 2.1 mm in attendance this year, and maybe 2.2-2.3 mm depending on how long they stay in the race.

Which begs the question: Is there really any doubt they would draw 3+ million a year if they just put a consistently competitive product on the field?

I don't think so.

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Well, I don't know about 3 Million, they still only drew 18K last night. I know that's during the week but I was hoping for at low 20s. They still require 37K a game for 3 million but at least we can somewhat debunk the theory that the DC fans were the reason for good attendance in the 90s. There were plenty of Nats fans last weekend but it was dominant like a Sox or Yanks game.

I think a consistent, good product would yield about 2.5m a year.

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Well, I don't know about 3 Million, they still only drew 18K last night. I know that's during the week but I was hoping for at low 20s. They still require 37K a game for 3 million but at least we can somewhat debunk the theory that the DC fans were the reason for good attendance in the 90s. There were plenty of Nats fans last weekend but it was dominant like a Sox or Yanks game.

I think a consistent, good product would yield about 2.5m a year.

I look at it this way -- we drew 2.6 mm in 2005, the year the Nats arrived. That was after the team had 7 losing seasons in a row. That tells me that, even with the Nats around, a consistently winning team in Baltimore would draw 3 million. The drop from 2.6 mm in 2005 to the more recent season is more a function of constant losing than it is the Nats.

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18,000 on Wednesday was not a good crowd. Nice weather and the O's still had the second lowest attendance of any team. Winning has helped this year but if they go on a skid they will be back to the usual low crowds. Winning brings the crowds out and they need to keep the fans hopes up. Attendance for the Phils and Nats on the weekend would have been close to sellouts even if the team was losing. This weekend series crowds against Cleveland should be interesting.

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18,000 on Wednesday was not a good crowd. Nice weather and the O's still had the second lowest attendance of any team. Winning has helped this year but if they go on a skid they will be back to the usual low crowds. Winning brings the crowds out and they need to keep the fans hopes up. Attendance for the Phils and Nats on the weekend would have been close to sellouts even if the team was losing. This weekend series crowds against Cleveland should be interesting.

Last summer, we played a Thursday-Sunday 4-game series with the Indians that drew 92,741. So, there's your marker. The Thursday game drew 22,780. That series was in mid-July. This one should draw better, I think, but it's a matter of how much better.

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Well, I don't know about 3 Million, they still only drew 18K last night. I know that's during the week but I was hoping for at low 20s. They still require 37K a game for 3 million but at least we can somewhat debunk the theory that the DC fans were the reason for good attendance in the 90s. There were plenty of Nats fans last weekend but it was dominant like a Sox or Yanks game.

I think a consistent, good product would yield about 2.5m a year.

DC fans weren't the sole reason, but they were certainly an input. Not only were they a component of the high attendance, they were likely a very well-heeled component with much higher than average revenue attached. Read about Jack Abramoff for about 10 minutes and it's clear that the Orioles used to be a regular destination for lobbyists from K street and their buddies. Now almost all of them go to Nats Park.

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Last summer, we played a Thursday-Sunday 4-game series with the Indians that drew 92,741. So, there's your marker. The Thursday game drew 22,780. That series was in mid-July. This one should draw better, I think, but it's a matter of how much better.

Tonight is buddy night and a T-Shirt giveaway. The buddy night might get another 5.000 in the park. We shall see how close we come to the 22,700.

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Tonight is buddy night and a T-Shirt giveaway. The buddy night might get another 5.000 in the park. We shall see how close we come to the 22,700.

Not close. 17,676. But it may be that people who want to go to a game in this series are choosing the Earl Weaver game on Saturday. Let's see what the four game total is.

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Not close. 17,676. But it may be that people who want to go to a game in this series are choosing the Earl Weaver game on Saturday. Let's see what the four game total is.

I think the terrible heat is going to hurt attendance some this weekend.

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