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Attendance to Date: 12.5% Over 2011

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30,439 for the Sunday game, over 110,000 for the series.

It was about 35% or more Tiger fans on Sunday. It was like Verlander Day at the Yard. The attendance test will be the next four series. Tampa,Oakland,Seattle and KC. Not the best draws but should get a little bump if the O's are still in the wild card race,

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I'm pretty sure its the 15 years of utter disappointment seeping through my sub-conscious, but I can't help but think this team is about to lose 20 in a row punctuated with someone testing positive for PEDS.

#summer05neverforget

Then the new batters eye lounge collapses and Dempsey's Pub serves only Bud Lite.

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I'll be going to just my 2nd game of the year on Friday.

Thanks for going to the game. :)

I'm still extremely turned off by the fees/prime game price jack, but I'm sure I am in the minority.

I can understand the prime-game jack frustration, but the $1 fee isn't that big of a deal financially ...... I think it's more the principle. STUB-HUB has some outstanding deals, but you essentially pay a $10 fee (2 fees of about $5 apiece) when you buy tickets there. And if you take that route, you get more bang for your buck if a bunch of people go with you (the fee is the same if you buy 1 ticket, 2 tickets, or 8 tickets. It's a fee per purchase, not per ticket.)

There are ways of "fighting back," so to speak. You can buy the $10 upper reserve seats, and just walk down and sit in the box seats ...... just stay out of the infield, and you should be OK. Believe it or not, I sit there even when the Red Sox and the Yankees are at OPACY. But with all of the other opponents besides the Red Sox and the Yankees, you should have no problem doing that. Just a suggestion. :)

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Attendance still up, but at 18.4% over 2011.

That was a mediocre homestand attendance-wise. Pretty disappointing considering that the two teams we were playing are in the thick of the wild card race with us. Still, neither Tampa nor Oakland is typically a big draw for us.

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That was a mediocre homestand attendance-wise. Pretty disappointing considering that the two teams we were playing are in the thick of the wild card race with us. Still, neither Tampa nor Oakland is typically a big draw for us.

The "wild card race" is something that real, day to day fans and followers of baseball are thinking about all the time. But to the casual fan who can name four or five people on the team, it isn't really in focus yet. THe newspapers just started putting it in the daily paper after the All Star Break, and it's usually in fine print. I don't think the local 11PM news shows wild card standings as graphics on the screen; they aren't usually put up on the screen as graphics during a game. Occasionally the announcers will talk about it, but that's about it.

You have to realize that the people on this board are a very small minority of dedicated fans. Not enough to fill the ballpark. The fanbase they have to draw from includes people who can probably name about three Orioles and will take the family to a game. I'll bet that if you took a poll of fans at the ballpark, about 50% would even know there are two wild cards this year instead of one. 60% tops. And maybe 20% could correctly tell you who was in 1st and 2nd in the AL Wild Card Race.

So the fact that the opponents are close to us in the wild card race is going to have a negligible effect on attendance.

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The "wild card race" is something that real, day to day fans and followers of baseball are thinking about all the time. But to the casual fan who can name four or five people on the team, it isn't really in focus yet. THe newspapers just started putting it in the daily paper after the All Star Break, and it's usually in fine print. I don't think the local 11PM news shows wild card standings as graphics on the screen; they aren't usually put up on the screen as graphics during a game. Occasionally the announcers will talk about it, but that's about it.

You have to realize that the people on this board are a very small minority of dedicated fans. Not enough to fill the ballpark. The fanbase they have to draw from includes people who can probably name about three Orioles and will take the family to a game. I'll bet that if you took a poll of fans at the ballpark, about 50% would even know there are two wild cards this year instead of one. 60% tops. And maybe 20% could correctly tell you who was in 1st and 2nd in the AL Wild Card Race.

So the fact that the opponents are close to us in the wild card race is going to have a negligible effect on attendance.

Right. Most fans in the park know that the O's have sucked forever, but they're winning more than they're losing this year and that's pretty cool. Unless someone goes out of their way to tell them, they'll know the O's are/aren't in the playoffs if/when they happen to notice they are/aren't on TV in October. (All observations extrapolated from my wife.)

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Lousy crowds this weekend Saturday and Sunday. Ihe O's had the second lowest attendance in baseball. We beat out Seattle,who was playing KC. Even Houston,who gutted their team outdrew the O's. I don't think the average fan buys into the O's and if they fade out of the wildcard most will not care. The O's had the Kids Dugout club otherwise they would have had 17,000 on Sunday.

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