19000 fans come out with 24 hours notice and support the Indians who played in Milwaukee because of the snow in Cleveland. What other city would do this. Chicago only put up 4000 for the Marlins a couple years ago.
2007-04-11 05:23:34 · 7 answers · asked by Troy 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Milwaukee won't profit from these games, and it wasn't played in Anaheim because it is an Indians home game. These were mostly Brewers fans who came out just to watch a baseball game.
2007-04-11 05:45:14 · update #1
And we don't like Selig anyway, He spent the 90s destroying the team, Attanasio is a savior.
2007-04-11 05:46:05 · update #2
Quite a showing!!!
I guess the Brewers fans appreciate baseball! I would have gone!
2007-04-11 05:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by TedEx 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Let's understand something here. Yes, the box score says 19,031 in attendance.
But MLB doesn't count attendance as bodies in the seats. MLB counts attendance as total tickets sold. So that 19,031 includes all of the season's tickets sold for games at Jacobs Field and all of the individual game tickets etc that had already been sold FOR JACOBS FIELD for that particular game.
Without knowing those numbers, you can't tell how many tickets were sold to people in and around Milwaukee. Hat's of to the Brewers though, and to whomever owns Miller Park, for the generous offer the stadium. That offer costs the owners money, the same as it would for any Brewers games, and I highly doubt that they'll get much, if any, income from these games.
Besides, the Brewers were the closest warm weather team that was on the road for those days. The alternative would have been to move these games to Anaheim, but the Indians have to be back home on Friday to host the Chisox (another cold-weather team) and the Angels are in Boston starting Friday.
2007-04-11 07:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
being an indians fan i give a hand to milwaukee. how many fans do you think were from cleveland and how many were from milwaukee?
to the guy 2 answers down... i just thought it was because milwaukee is not too far from cleveland and other close teams were playing at home
2007-04-11 05:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by pimpjuice 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Smell the coffee... this is Selig's team -- and Selig is the Commissioner of MLB. You think he's NOT throwing a bone to his fans, his parking attendents, concessioniers, local TV advertisers, in-stadium billboard marketers etc. etc. for the national coverage (and expanded audience on On Demand, that's FREE nationwide this week?). Why do YOU think this series isn't be played in Anaheim? (again, get that coffee).
2007-04-11 05:30:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yeah, the tickets were $10 to.
2007-04-11 05:30:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah i give a hand to them. But those tickets were pretty cheap tho
2007-04-11 05:33:52 · answer #6 · answered by yankees_08wschamps 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think wisconsin in general have the best fans, and thats just a fact!!!!
2007-04-11 05:28:53 · answer #7 · answered by thesunnshynne 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋