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NY Yankees attendance - or lack thereof

Discussion in 'Sports Forum' started by Salty, Jul 2, 2013.

  1. Salty

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    According to the NY times, NY Yankees home attendance is down 6.1% from last year. In addition, the YES (Yankees) TV cable network ratings were down some 40 %.

    Why do you suppose that is?
     
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    Old team...loss of interest
     
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    Attendance is down because it's so darned expensive to get tickets!!!
     
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    Is Cities field any better?:laugh:
     
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    WAY better! I can get them for free. ;)
     
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    Really!?! I was raised a Mets (or should i say Mess) fan...lets go:laugh:
     
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    Losing team, no Jeter, No A-roid, no Texiera.
     
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    No Arod is considered a plus to NY fans:laugh:
     
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    My dad's best friend's wife works for Met's management and is constantly offering us tickets - that we don't want. If it were Yankees tickets, we'd take them in a heartbeat!
     
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    Thats OK...I prefer Tampa Bay anyway. Heard you follow the Jets though so I wont rib you too much...you have enough pain.:laugh:
     
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    Jets? LOL - Never, although I've met a number of them and they were great guys. But this house is a Yankees/Giants home, thank you very much!
     
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    Ok sorry stand corrected.
     
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    :tongue3::thumbsup:
     
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    OK....Ice Hockey....& your team is?
     
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    Do not follow ice hockey at all - but I'd go with the Islanders. :)
     
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    The Yanks just aren't a good team and nobody but Cubs fans want to pay to watch a not good team. And even Cubs fans are tired with losing teams.


    No Jeter makes a difference, but not having ARod probably makes Yankee fans like the team more and I get the feeling that they're sort of meh about Teixeira. Not having Granderson doesn't help the cause, either.
     
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    Losing team? They are 7 games above .500. If you look at the game-by-game attendance breakdown you will see that people are not coming out to watch the Yankees play teams like Houston, Arizona, Kansas City, Seattle.

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/2013-schedule-scores.shtml


    Also, attendance at Yankee games is down 9.3%, not 6.1% from 2012. Still, they are #1 in the AL in overall attendance.

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance/_/sort/homeTotal
     
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