I really don't see how anyone can find baseball more exciting than football. :idunno: To each his own I guess.

I am not choosing a side to argue from here, but I am so sick of hearing about the Reds not having a sell out streak like the Bengals. I've heard it here, on the street, and on the radio.

 

The Reds have 81 games to sell out people! Some during the week and during the day while people are working. It is a whole lot harder to sell out when fans have 81 games to choose from than when they have 10 counting the pre season. No doubt attendance would rise with a better Reds team, but to even pretend they would be selling out home stand after home stand is actually laughable.

 

Sorry for my little rant, but that argument is like comparing apples to oranges in my opinion.

 

I do agree that it is harder to sell out every game for Reds, just because there are so many games. However don't most city's that are considered "baseball towns" able to sell out most of their games, or at least make it look like they have a pretty good crowds there. It seems like the only time there are good crowds here is opening day, and well opening weekend. Then the only other times it really gets a good crowd is if a team like the Cubs come to town, or if the Reds have some kind of special going on like bobble head doll day. If this is really still such a baseball town, it shouldn't be as hard as it is to get more people at the stadium. Yeah them just not being very good for a long while doesn't help. However even if they were good, I still don't think we would see the stadium get packed on most nights like other so called baseball towns. This city IMO is just not as much of a baseball town, like it use to be. This city is probably closer to becoming a football town than people would like to admit.

 

Hopefully though we will get the chance soon to see how the city would react and how many people would come if they were good. :thumb:

I do agree that it is harder to sell out every game for Reds, just because there are so many games. However don't most city's that are considered "baseball towns" able to sell out most of their games, or at least make it look like they have a pretty good crowds there. It seems like the only time there are good crowds here is opening day, and well opening weekend. Then the only other times it really gets a good crowd is if a team like the Cubs come to town, or if the Reds have some kind of special going on like bobble head doll day. If this is really still such a baseball town, it shouldn't be as hard as it is to get more people at the stadium. Yeah them just not being very good for a long while doesn't help. However even if they were good, I still don't think we would see the stadium get packed on most nights like other so called baseball towns. This city IMO is just not as much of a baseball town, like it use to be. This city is probably closer to becoming a football town than people would like to admit.

 

Hopefully though we will get the chance soon to see how the city would react and how many people would come if they were good. :thumb:

 

I think you're way off base.

 

Other cities draw larger crowds because they're bigger.

 

If 3% of Greater Cincinnati comes to a game, you'll have about 60,000. This is GREATER CINCINNATI, not just "Cincinnati."

 

If 3% of New York City comes to a game, you'll have over 250,000.

 

Also, the Reds do not draw well on "Opening Weekend", as you stated in your post. They draw well on Opening Day, and that's about it. I can't remember the last time the Reds opened on a weekend, nor can I remember the last time that game #2 had a sellout crowd. I went to both Games #1 & #2 last year. Opening Day was standing room only. For game #2, we could've sat anywhere we wanted.

I think you're way off base.

 

Other cities draw larger crowds because they're bigger.

 

If 3% of Greater Cincinnati comes to a game, you'll have about 60,000. This is GREATER CINCINNATI, not just "Cincinnati."

 

If 3% of New York City comes to a game, you'll have over 250,000.

 

Also, the Reds do not draw well on "Opening Weekend", as you stated in your post. They draw well on Opening Day, and that's about it. I can't remember the last time the Reds opened on a weekend, nor can I remember the last time that game #2 had a sellout crowd. I went to both Games #1 & #2 last year. Opening Day was standing room only. For game #2, we could've sat anywhere we wanted.

 

I also think it helps that in most "baseball towns" other than Cincinnati they have a fan base that is pretty much national. That means more people will travel there for a weekend to see their favorite team.

 

Also, some of those "baseball towns" that fill seats day in and day out have teams/stadiums with a lot of history. For example, whenever I am in Chicago I catch a Cubs game no matter what simply because I love Wrigley Field and the history there. The Red Sox are another town that benefits from this.

 

Plus, I'm sure more peoplw vacation to Boston or Chicago than Cincinnati anyway. Sometimes tickets are part of a package so simply because they have more people visit the city they will have more attendance. There are many elements to why those places have butts in the seats outside of simply enjoying baseball more than football.