Some people on here have made comments before about Pittsburgh fans being frontrunners because of the Pirates' attendance. I think after nearly two full decades of losing.....poor attendance is understadable. The Indians were on the doorstep of the World Series a few years ago.ts1227 wrote: Not that many really jumped ship completely. People just aren't going to waste their money to watch a bunch of triple A guys play major league baseball. People just understand the product and are content staying put and watching it on STO
And there IS a reason for this. Just like the Pirates, the Tribe has basically come out and said "oh...we'll field a baseball team but we really don't care if we win or not." That's why people aren't showing up. Ownership doesn't care so why should the fans?killer_ewok wrote:Some people on here have made comments before about Pittsburgh fans being frontrunners because of the Pirates' attendance. I think after nearly two full decades of losing.....poor attendance is understadable. The Indians were on the doorstep of the World Series a few years ago.ts1227 wrote: Not that many really jumped ship completely. People just aren't going to waste their money to watch a bunch of triple A guys play major league baseball. People just understand the product and are content staying put and watching it on STO
Just sayin'.
As someone who has followed the Tribe since 1974-75 the whole "Jabobs Field thing" really pissed me off. Watching yuppies on cell phones trying to get "face time" on TV because the Jake was the "place to be" kinda burned my britches.THE4RINGZ wrote: Here is what it really comes down to. The Tribe's REAL fan base is small. From 1994-say 2008 most people at the Jake/Prog were nothing but a bunch of front runners. I remember as a kid and young man 1970's - mid 1980's going to the old stadium with like 5,000 other fans on any given day during the season.
The Indian's move into the Jake and get good. Then you start seeing people getting Chief Wahoo tattoos, wearing the gear, car flags, everything Indian's. I would go talk to them about the Indian's, and they were the Tribe's biggest fans, I would ask them how they liked the Jake compared to the old municipal stadium. They had never been to the old ballpark. So what does that tell you?
Now that the team talent and expectation level has droppd to pre-jake levels you are seeing all those "Indian's biggest fans" jumping off the ship, and the only people left at the stadium are the true Indian's fans.
I think a lot of fans just got LIVID when they trade back to back Cy Young winners, Victor Martinez, Ryan Garko (at least he could hit 280 in the MLB), etc. They traded away guys who were under-paid for their talents and didnt have expiring contracts yet. They basically said, "Fuck Cleveland fans. We know we could win next year, but we are gonna gut the team to try to save a buck."killer_ewok wrote: As long as there is consistency and people aren't changing their tune now that it's going on in Cleveland as well.....I don't have an issue. FWIW, it wasn't any of you who posted on this thread who said that before. I just remember attendance being cited (by an individual) as the way to determine if fans in a particular city are frontrunners.
I remember when you couldn't give away Cavs tix. I got freebies 5 rows behind the bench in the pre-Lebron days.vball10set wrote: how quickly they fall...seems like only yesterday it was like pulling teeth trying to get tix....
And, unfortunately, after all of those trips, you STILL wouldn't know which one is the major league team.RedRider1 wrote: They had a neat deal....8 tickets...2 to Akron, 2 to Lake County, 2 to Cleveland (bleachers) and 2 to Mahoning Valley for like $75.
Works out to $9.25 per ticket.
You could throw in a 5th game with 2 tickets to Columbus for around $95 total.
