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Why MLB insists on starting games this early is beyond me and I'm sure millions of others who won't show up to early season games due to cold weather. Parents don't bring their kids to games during the week until school is out in June. This hurts everyone's attendance throughout baseball. I think this team will win back some old and bring in some new fans before the season is over.

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The reason they start in April is so the playoffs don't go into November. The only other option would be to shorten the season, and that's not going to happen.

They could also have everyone play a few double headers a year like they did years ago. That's unlikely as well I guess.

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Why would you be shocked? It was a perfect occasion to have an all-time low attendance. It's freezing, and we are playing a team that has never won 70 games in a season. Look at any mid-week early April game we've played vs. Tampa in recent years and you'll see we had terrible attendance.

Well, I am shocked because it's the second game of the season. It's Opening Night.

Maybe I'm being naive but I'd like to think we would set poor attendance records on a Monday day game in August.

I don't know, I just remember the second game being the game you went to when you couldn't get an opening day ticket.

That was a long time ago though.

As SilentJames put it: "It sucks"

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Why MLB insists on starting games this early is beyond me and I'm sure millions of others who won't show up to early season games due to cold weather. Parents don't bring their kids to games during the week until school is out in June. This hurts everyone's attendance throughout baseball. I think this team will win back some old and bring in some new fans before the season is over.

More games = more money. 10,000 tickets were sold, which is 10,000 more than they would have sold if there wasn't a game.

Boy, that sounds like something Yogi Berra might say.

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It sucks, yeah, but still... for the past few years, there have been threads every year about low attendance early in the season. Everyone knows that attendance will be lower early on due to weather/school, and in this case seemingly crappy teams. I doubt the casual Baltimorean will realize that the Rays are actually decent this year. Most probably saw us get creamed on Monday, and got discouraged.

Also, I was watching the A's/Sox game today, and their crowd looked pretty sparse as well (not nearly as bad, as they had 20k paid, but I noticed it looked empty) - though 50% were Red Sox "fans" :rolleyes:. It's not just us.

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I just watched the end of the Dodger-Giant game at Dodger Stadium on TV. (2-1 Giants.)

The place is a ghost-town, nobody's there either.

And it's a friggin' Dodger-Giants game, it's not a Florida team with stupid looking hats.

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Winning puts butts in the seats.

The Washington Capitals are a prime example. You could walk up to the box office when they were doing horribly and get any ticket you wanted, now Verizon Center is sold out for the final 3 games.

This area supports a winner.

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Well, I am shocked because it's the second game of the season. It's Opening Night.

Maybe I'm being naive but I'd like to think we would set poor attendance records on a Monday day game in August.

Well, you're not naive, just wrong. Early April is exactly the time when poor attendance records are set. Two years ago, the O's opened at home against Tampa. After opening day, they drew 16,083 and won their second straight game. The next night, in the third game of the year, they set their (previous) all-time attendance low of 13,194.

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