Tag: mlb attendance

  • Attendance Check In

    Attendance Check In

    We posted about the year over year (2022 vs 2023) attendance increase in our post, titled Mind Bending Attendance Logic from this past October.  As a quick reminder, we noted in that post that MLB was celebrating the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year and attributing the increase to the implementation of…

  • Mind Bending Attendance Logic

    Mind Bending Attendance Logic

    After just concluding the season, MLB and the media are touting the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year (2022) and for the most part believe that the new rule changes were the main factors driving this increase.  The current season saw attendance top the 70 million mark for all thirty clubs, which…

  • Bad Owners Series: Cincinnati Reds

    Bad Owners Series: Cincinnati Reds

    One factor that MLB will never consider when examining their drop in popularity would be to look inward.  That would be to take a good look at its ownership groups or more importantly their failed ownership groups.  What is that old saying, “you can’t fire the boss.”  Well maybe in this case the fans should…

  • Maybe Size Matters

    Maybe Size Matters

    One of the reasons touted by MLB that the game needs rescuing are the flat attendance figures.  In 2007, MLB reached a high in its history of 79.5 million fans attending games that year.  That number slid into the mid 70 million level and further dipped below 70 million since 2018.  Of course the Covid…

  • Opening Day and Shorter Games

    Opening Day and Shorter Games

    The media is falling over itself and raving about shorter games and how they are going to transform the baseball experience after introducing pitch clocks for the first time on this opening day.  What though is actually causing a reduction in attendance levels and is that attributable to the length of the games? Were radical…