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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
In 1997 the Braves moved into Turner Field, won their division, and drew 3.4 million fans. Eight years and eight division titles later, the Braves drew 2.5 million fans. The Braves kept winning games and they kept losing fans. Evidently, fan interest in the real world is broken too.
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I would estimate that Braves fans got "spoiled" so to speak with so much success. Yes in the rest of your post, good points, it could be tough to do this excellently. It's just frustrating.
Example from right now. Cleveland has our league's two top active HR hitters (Yaz and Adrian Beltre), both with a chance to break the all-time HR number if they stay healthy in their 30s. We have a veteran SP, 5-time Cy Young winner, plus Mike Mussina with 21 wins and 3 starts to go and a 2nd-year scouting discovery who at 24 has a sub-3 ERA and 16 wins. We have the top SP and RP collection in the league and last year's Reliever of the Year closing games. We have young guns Albert Pujols, Larry Doby and Danny Tartabull. We have 8 Extremely Popular (locally) players. We are on pace for Cleveland to top 100 wins for the first time in recent history, and the team has won 12 of our last 14 games. It's 2042, and the team hasn't won the world series since 1948. You'd think the fans would be excited.
Yet fan interest has dropped from 100 to 93 in the course of this season.
