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Kansas City Royals. One of the smallest markets in Baseball and THE WORST team. The Royals have not even been competitive since winning the world series in 1985. They were great in the late 70's and early 80's, but we are talking about 25 YEARS since that team has done anything at all to gain an ounce of respect. I mean they have last year's cy young pitcher still throwing near no-hitters and still losing the games because he plays for such a bad team. Bad bad bad team for a long long long time. I don't even know if Boston could sustain the fan support the Royals get after 25 years of horrible baseball. When the Royals even so much as put a winning streak together, they start selling out the stadium, yet you have teams like Tampa who still can't draw people after winning a world series and remaining highly competitive. If KC had a competitive team, they would sell out much of the season.
I see a lot of opening day games around the country, many don't sell out or are full of no-shows or the opposing team's fans. Opening day in KC is a big deal and it's 100% Royals fans and it's a very difficult ticket to get even though everybody knows the team sucks and has sucked for 25 years.
Yet you still see a fair amount of Royals fans at parks across the country. I'm one of them .
Yankees? WTF????? 200 million dollar payroll and market of 25 million people (plus millions more bandwagoners). Yea right. They should be able to sell out a 200,000 seat stadium if you really drill down and compare apples to apples.
I will base this on how competitive or uncompetitive the team is over the past 15-20 years and how large the market is.
1 St Louis Cardinals.
2 Milwaukee Brewers
3 Kansas City Royals
4 Boston Red Sox
5 Chicago Cubs
Yankee fans face absolutely no adversity. Isn't it easy to be a loyal, die-hard for a team that wins the world series every four years? Not to mention, a team that buys its victories...
A lot of places don't have many die-hard fans either due to another sport being more of the focus and/or a place has large numbers of transplants. It is why sunbelt teams tend to have less support.
The teams in no order I can think of are Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, Phillies. The Cardinals can act as a much larger market team has to do with a large regional fanbase outside if its own metro area and including other cities.
A lot of places don't have many die-hard fans either due to another sport being more of the focus and/or a place has large numbers of transplants. It is why sunbelt teams tend to have less support.
The teams in no order I can think of are Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, Phillies. The Cardinals can act as a much larger market team has to do with a large regional fanbase outside if its own metro area and including other cities.
The Minnesota Twins have sold out this entire season. And it's May.
Anyway, I think it's weird to too see a lot of places not having fans. I watched a Braves game on TBS the other day and it looked like a ghost town. You're telling me in Atlanta, a Metro of 5+ Million can't put 30,000 into a baseball stadium?!? Even Yankee and Met games are empty half the time with the biggest metro and city in the USA right there. San Diego, Houston, Seattle, Oakland, Florida, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Washington are always empty. I don't get it. I know they are all pretty lousy teams, and it's only May, but come on.. You're telling me 2-6 million people metros can't put more than 30,000 into a stadium?
People in "Hamton Roads" or Raleigh or Portland, or whichever city people beg for MLB, this is why you'll never see a team. Toronto, a ginormous city can't fill a stadium. That's BS, regardless of how bad the team is. MLB baseball is the best in the world and it should be seen, and out of that many people you'd think it wouldn't be a problem.
On the same hand, live sports are becoming a rich man's hobby, like golf. I remember being 16 yrs old. Driving to Twins games to the Dome, 20 minutes away. Parking and gas split among 4 dudes = $3, School ID night half off tickets so my $8 home run porch ticket became $4. And that was a wednesday, which was Dollar Dog night x 2 = $2. So for less than $20 you could enjoy yourself to a game, watching a team in the league's crappiest stadium win one of it's 5 al central titles in the 2000s.
Now, that's pretty much impossible to do. Actually, I'd be impressed if anyone can buy a ticket for less than $20.
I have been gone from Illinois for 20 yrs now, but for me, there will never be another team that I adore like the CHICAGO CUBS. I think Cub fans hang in there thru thick & thin!!!!
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Cubs fans (like my family) are hillarious -- they have absolutely no faith in their team but root for them unconditionally, but so pessimistic!!
I don't know how the Yankees can ever sell out their stadium considering the prices they charge to see a ballgame! How is the average Yankees fan supposed to come see their team play when tickets are a grand a pop?
With the Cubs and Yankees ticket prices and payrolls, I think you have to be a die hard fan to support them since for what it cost to go to a game and what they pay their players, fans don't get much in return. The Yankees "should" win the series every year and the Cubs should at least make the playoffs every year.
Now tell me again how a city of only 2 million (Kansas City) can average 20k a game for a team that has been absolutely horrible for 25 years?
Minneapolis is a great baseball town, it's about time they got a real baseball stadium. I wonder if the Marlins will sell out their inaugural season?
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