**PIRATES fans are an embarassment

[thetrinity]

people are there on the weekend games in the summer, thats about it.

[Wrigley]

49 cents gets you in the pirates park wed and can get dugout seats for $15 on stubhub

http://www.stubhub.com/pittsburgh-pirates-tickets/pirates-vs-brewers-9-19-2012-2468369/

[meader99]

Pirate fans are to tired to come out tonight. They stayed up late last night watching the Pirates in Chicago. Game ended at what 2:30am est? No energy left.....

[Vegas39]

49 cents

[JMobile]

I don't blame Pirate fans. Pirates playing High School equivalent baseball right now. McCutching & Alvarez are the only ones worth watching but I'm sure they get pitched around which makes it difficult for them to get a good at bat.

Padre fans also keep our Stadium empty, even on the weekend during this strong 2nd half.

[milwaukee mike]

Pirate fans are to tired to come out tonight. They stayed up late last night watching the Pirates in Chicago. Game ended at what 2:30am est? No energy left.....

Yeah but if they stayed up late they got to see this guy

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGZrk8JQDg

[paco]

Tigers have sold out every Game this season

[meader99]

Yeah but if they stayed up late they got to see this guy


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGZrk8JQDg

Perhaps after seeing that they are to scared to visit the old ballpark.....

[gregm]

tampa, jacksonville, atlanta all the same.... true sports towns do not wxist in the south unless its college football.

I agree about the college sports in the south but you dont consider St Louis and Texas part of the south? Rangers and Cardinals fans are some of the best in the country, and if you factor in other sports , New orleans is one of the best sports towns in the country. Redskin games are always packed , Ravens games are intense even if the Orioles game attendance are a disgraceful, not to mention Dallas fans. Its tough just to base things on one sport.

I just think places like Atlanta are not really cities but just sprawling suburbs but the Braves fans who are passionate about the team are really die hard. Baseball was really hurt by the strike in 95 but Atlanta is not nearly as bad as some of the empty seats in alot of places, but Mariners or Astros fans have an excuse I guess. Empty seats in Baltimore or Atlanta is a disgrace.

[You mad bro]

The entire pirates organization is a joke

[lunchbawks]

bucs fans have really come out this season... what are u talking about???

its not like you can sell out 80 home games in a city like pittsburgh

ZOLTAN

[milwaukee mike]

bucs fans have really come out this season... what are u talking about???

its not like you can sell out 80 home games in a city like pittsburgh

ZOLTAN

Not saying you need a sell out, but fighting for the playoffs with 2 weeks left and there looked like less than 8,000 people in that stadium at game time

[thetrinity]

Milwaukee u can see why no one wants to watch this team a single turns into a double. They r peanut league amazing they got to this point.

[milwaukee mike]

Yeah stolen bases all game, how were they over .500 at the break the last 2 years?

[milwaukee mike]

"pirates have to feel like the fans have given up on them"

Quote from brewers tv broadcast just now regarding the crowd tonight

[meader99]

There catcher is terrible. The Brewers ran on him every chance during the last series that they swept and obviously with 7 steals tonight, they aren't stopping anytime soon.

[beermankirk]

i`d spend the .98c a
ticket and get bleacher reserved.... It`s only 2 quarters more....

[lunchbawks]

Not saying you need a sell out, but fighting for the playoffs with 2 weeks left and there looked like less than 8,000 people in that stadium at game time

dude its baseball. noone likes baseball, dont act so surprised

[PuckIt]

Come on pittsburgh

2 1/2 games back of the wild card and the stadium is empty

tough to keep up hope after 17 years of straight losing. People don't like baseball in Pittsburgh. The only reason there are 8,000 people there tonight is that it's dog-night, or "pups in the park" or whatever they call it lol.

[CanuckG]

Baseball is a dying sport.

[Chi_archie]

15,492 paid

sounds like only half showed up.

sub 60 degrees and school night didn't help.

There is also alot less expendable income for pirates tix in September after blowing it on cases of Iron City, Wings, pierogis for the Stillers games on Sundays.

I gave up on this team about 2-3 weeks ago.

truth be told I only allowed myself to believe for about a 30 day period. Up until July 15 I wanted them to fail and be able to get some decent prospects for guys like Burnett, Hanrahan, Cruz, Garrett Jones, Grilli, Bedard. to help for the 2013-2016 competitive window

turns out the smoke and mirrors lasted a few weeks longer than 2011. and they added vets at the deadline and kept vets they have no need for

[rdegk15]

haha sound like when I went to an Astros game last year for the last game of the season. Three of us went went we paid a total of $2.25 and that included stubhub fees.

I just told my pals that I would get the tickets and the beers would be on them

[PuckIt]

Baseball is a dying sport.

I wouldn't go that far. If buccos ever top .500 I think it'll get better around here.

[CanuckG]

If people didnt bet on this sport doubt anyone would give a fukk.

I like going to a Mariners game when the Yankees or Red Sox are in town though....super cheap.

[meader99]

I wouldn't go that far. If buccos ever top .500 I think it'll get better around here.

Bring back the Killer B's.

[Chi_archie]

Bring back the Killer B's.

nah I don't want those schmucks back...

I do often wonder what became of Mike Diaz, one of the first big steroid users in MLB

[You mad bro]

Brewer fans are pussy

[face]

4860 baseball games in a season, not including playoffs.
334 nfl games including playoffs

baseball is not dying, just some games there are not a lot of people

[CanuckG]

Baseball was in its prime in the late 90s early 00's.

[InTheDrink]

Baseball is a dying sport.

trollers gonna troll

fyi average attendance is up nearly 1000 people per game over last year

and note that the bucs are up over 2000 per game

[You mad bro]

Like i said before brewer fans are pussy

This thread is dumb

[gregm]

Baseball isnt in bad shape at all, an incredible market for baseball in Asia and the numbers have been great over the last 8-10 years. Yankees, Rangers,Cardinals Giants and the top clubs are averaging over 40,000 in attendance each game, the Rangers, Cardinal world series was in the top 10 for primetime shows last year and one of the most watched shows in foxs history. Revenues are up for most teams, look at the Dodgers, bankrupt and they ended up getting 2 billion dollars for the team.

Its all about television revenues and these cable markets, and the big thing baseball learned is dont let a strike ruin your sport, baseball took alot to recover from the 94-95 strike but its in very good shape. Hockeys top franchises get half the average attendance as most baseball games, a strike can just decimate a sport for years.

[bell3724]

Tigers have sold out every Game this season

so what?

[You mad bro]

so what?

Paco thinks hes cool thats what

[ericthegangster]

They were 3 games back before tonight... and they are like 3-12 in their last 15 games. I don't blame them. Brewers fans are fickle bastards too. I have a 20 game package and a few weeks ago I couldn't even give tickets away for a game I couldn't get to.