h2thaizzo wrote: Oh Jesus Christ

Footwedge wrote:

h2thaizzo wrote: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/cleiatte.shtml

This is what pisses me off about baseball owners, and their crying about no salary cap. Look at the attendance numbers between 1995 and 2002 when we were a solid franchise, we were going way over what the league average was for attendance. Of course we know why, but for some damn reason, the Dolans and Shapiro have no clue that winning sells more seats than losing. We were almost on par with the Yankees attendance in that era, and still, while we were winning divisions and pennants, we refused to resign our star players, and watched the team fold into what its become today. We trade away not one, but two, Cy Young pitchers, when its proven that you can't win in the A.L. without solid pitching. We also let our #3 pitcher go to a division rival on top of all that, and they are bitching that they are losing 14 million dollars? Sign some real talent, quit trading it away, and maybe you will get more than 1.7 million asses in the seats of your stadium. Sometimes I wish Dolan would croak and Mark Cuban would want to buy our joke of a franchise, at least he has the balls to spend money.

And you have nary a clue that most of baseball revenues come from the advertisement market without any legitimate salary cap.

Attendance is just one part of the financial equation.