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Originally Posted by Mother****erJones
How many fans were there? I know why fans don't come to CWS games. We haven't been good for years. But the Indians have had some good teams and have less fans go to games than us.
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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.