Something interesting that I was looking at yesterday actually.
Their attendance just fell off of a cliff after their great years in the late 90's. In 2001 they averaged 39,600 fans/game according to espn. They won 91 games that season, the last good season of that era for them (I'm going strictly by numbers here as I cannot recall this, maybe some of the older guys can help me out on this).

Next season (2002) they won 74 games and averaged 32,000/game, season after that they won 68 games and averaged 22,700 fans/game. The rest is history, nothing up from there from what I can see no matter how good the team is. Aside from one spike from 22k-27k in 2007-08, attendance has even been below an average of 20k/game in four seasons in the last decade.

It's like their fans just couldn't take the bad years after the good ones and all collectively said **** it.
I don't get it.

Someone else start game thread. I won't be home for start and will watch a few hours later.

I've heard there's public transportation issues but it all sounds like excuses and bs.

They lost a lot of front office personnel and also lost all the great, homegrown players that made the team so good.

Losing Jim Thome to the Phillies seemed to be a final blow for many of the fans, who just tuned out because they thought ownership was cheap.

That's some horrible ****ing game management. What the ****.