Orioles attendance 2024

[Frobby]

39 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

I don’t disagree with anything you stated and appreciate how you articulated your position regarding the creation of a winning culture in a similar manner to the other pro org in town.

I would argue that in order to maintain a “winning” culture and the fanbase/market place’s confidence in that partly includes retaining and/or acquiring elite talent. Doing things constantly on the cheap AND not winning the ultimate prize (i.e. the Rays) will lead to some apathy eventually as fans/people in the community start to develop the notion that doing what it takes to obtain the ultimate prize (championship) is not as important to the owner as it is to them. There is a hopelessness that can set in with such a scenario. And if there is one thing that sports needs to sell it is hope.

Just win.   They won’t be that cheap.  The team’s best players are cheap for now.  That doesn’t last long. 

[emmett16]

I agree, they can’t be cheap.  They have to show the fan base the goal is to win.

 

[Frobby]

43,987 for the Friday night Phillies game.  They saw a classic.  

[Safelykept]

22 hours ago, Frobby said:

Weekday day games draw surprisingly well.  Just shy of 82 k for the Atlanta series, and possibly 120 k for the Phillies.   That would be quite a week.  

Minor correct, but it looks like 130k for the weekend, what a show by the Philly fans last night

[Frobby]

On 6/15/2024 at 8:47 AM, Safelykept said:

Minor correct, but it looks like 130k for the weekend, what a show by the Philly fans last night

I was being conservative, but it looks like you may be right.  44,555 yesterday afternoon.  88,542 for the first two games.  

Attendance passed the 1 mm mark yesterday, on the 38th home date.  
 

[Safelykept]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

I was being conservative, but it looks like you may be right.  44,555 yesterday afternoon.  88,542 for the first two games.  

Attendance passed the 1 mm mark yesterday, on the 38th home date.  
 

Could also be North of yesterday(not by much) Love that Philly fans are involved, Dont like the commentary from their Fans or announcers that the only reason its sold out is because of their fans. They are here because not only do they travel< but get a chance to see how they match against a really good team in a great StaDium. Like there really would be same crowd as Tampa last home stand( Low to mid 30,s)

[baltfan]

People can be upset but Philly fans show up. They show up at home and did here on the road. Orioles fans have been better, but the team should be drawing better than Milwaukee 

[Frobby]

9 minutes ago, baltfan said:

People can be upset but Philly fans show up. They show up at home and did here on the road. Orioles fans have been better, but the team should be drawing better than Milwaukee 

Rome wasn’t built in a day.  Milwaukee has been a playoff team for 5 of the past 6 years before this one.  Our attendance is still building up.

[Yossarian]

Did I hear Kevin Brown correctly today - did he say the average attendance across all games in the league yesterday (06/15) was north of 39K?  That is impressive,  if true. 

[Allan Bryant]

2 hours ago, Frobby said:

Rome wasn’t built in a day.  Milwaukee has been a playoff team for 5 of the past 6 years before this one.  Our attendance is still building up.

Frobby, good analysis right there . Additionally, the Angelos years have created apathy from community to the Orioles .  Let’s hope this is a beginning 

[scottbbfm]

It’s building. A few observations:

1. I had lots of people tell me they couldn’t get tickets this weekend.  Orioles fans are used to being able to grab tickets a few days before and make last minute plans. They’ll have to adjust behaviors 

2. Philly fans gobbled up a lot of the seats weeks/months ago.  This series was circled. 

3. Demand leads to scarcity which leads to more demand.   

 

[Sports Guy]

 

[Tony-OH]

4 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

 

A 35.2% increase in attendance over a playoff team that won 101 games last year is pretty impressive. With upgrades to the stadium that should come this offseason now that the lease has been signed should also help as well as having two playoff teams in a row.

[Sports Guy]

13 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

A 35.2% increase in attendance over a playoff team that won 101 games last year is pretty impressive. With upgrades to the stadium that should come this offseason now that the lease has been signed should also help as well as having two playoff teams in a row.

It’s because of season ticket sales…it’s always because of season ticket sales.

I expect another big jump next year too.

[eddie83]

 

 

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