{"id":2055911,"date":"2023-10-04T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-in-100-years\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:50:48","slug":"after-tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-in-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB&#8217;s Postseason Attendance Hits 100-Year Low After Turbulent Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-in-100-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2055911&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>If a team loses \u2063in the playoffs, but nobody\u2019s around to watch it, does it actually count?<\/h2>\n<p>Obviously yes, and it\u2019s not like <em>nobody <\/em>was in attendance when\u2064 the Texas Rangers\u200b traveled \u2064to face\u200c the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Wild Card \u2064game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But when the Rangers \u2062won 4-0, the most pressing storyline to emerge from \u2064that game had to do with the number of fans in \u2062attendance \u2014 or not in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>According\u2064 to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4927303\/2023\/10\/03\/tampa-bay-rays-tropicana-field-low-attendance-texas-rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Athletic<\/a>, Tuesday\u2019s Wild\u200b Card tilt drew a relatively paltry 19,704 fans to \u2063Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n<p>That figure is the lowest postseason attendance number seen since\u200d Game 7 (in\u200c a best-of-nine) of\u200b the infamous 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the \u2062Cincinnati \u2062Reds \u2014 and that game had a number of extenuating factors working\u2063 against it.<\/p>\n<p>(Of note, all \u2063attendance figures are not counting\u200d COVID-19 era \u2064issues, when fans were not allowed in stadiums.)<\/p>\n<p>For the unaware, the\u200b 1919 World Series is often referred to as the\u200c \u201cChicago \u200bBlack Sox\u201d scandal, \u200cwherein various members of the White Sox were given lifetime bans from \u200dbaseball\u200d for betting on the series.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t any hearsay of something untoward happening that deterred fans from attending.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u2064the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), \u2064The Athletic reports that \u200dthe 1919 game\u200b only saw 13,923 \u2064attendees because the Reds\u200d had their fans buy tickets\u2062 in three-game \u201cblocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s fine\u200b for your first three home games in a series, but for the fourth \u2063game? It presented all\u2064 manner of logistical issues that stifled the attendance that game.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s game has no such neat and\u2062 tidy \u200cexplanation apart from \u200d\u201cThe Rays just don\u2019t \u200ddraw \u2014 even for the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, that\u2019s the\u2064 most succinct\u200b explanation posited\u200b by The Athletic, as the outlet notes that the Rays averaged a meager 17,781\u200b fans per game in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, the silver lining for the Rays \u2064here is that this playoff\u2064 game did \u2062exceed the team\u2019s average attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The downside then, obviously, is that\u200b it still set a century-old low.<\/p>\n<p>For MLB, this is yet another ignominious headline in a season that the league \u200cwould probably like\u200c to quickly leave in \u2064the rearview.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/ratings\/mlb-national-viewership-disappoints-2023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awful Announcing<\/a> \u2064 reported, national viewership of MLB games this\u2063 year has been stagnant and disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers,\u2063 one of\u200c the teams in this game, \u200chad a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/texas-mlb-team-refuses-host-lgbt-night-now-may-paying-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">constant negative media cloud<\/a> hanging over them because they refused to participate \u2062LGBT festivities.<\/p>\n<p>And several teams \u2062adopted polarizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americas-pastime-mlb-goes-full-commie-china-style-ballpark-biometric-facial-scans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facial scanning technology<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<p>And while those are lingering issues \u200bthat may become a massive headache eventually, it pales in comparison to the actual national headache that \u2062was the Los Angeles \u200bDodgers, one of MLB\u2019s premiere\u2064 franchises, this \u200dseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers\u200b came under intense national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mlb-legend-curt-schilling-shreds-dodgers-anti-christian-stunt-billionaires-cant-math\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrutiny<\/a> \u2063for \u201chonoring\u201d\u2062 a cross-dressing group of blasphemers \u200cknown as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/graphic-video-shows-la-dodgers-really-inviting-game-grotesque-display-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That stunt caused all manner of\u200d negative press and backlash which both the \u2063Dodgers and MLB tried to \u200bbrush under the rug as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays lost their \u2062Wednesday game and \u200care eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 just concluded, and the Rays have been eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">An Urgent Note from Our Staff:<\/h2>\n<p><em><b>The Western Journal has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-recruits-super-bowl-champ-to-be-official-spokesman-for-covid-booster\/\" title=\"Pfizer hires Super Bowl champ as COVID booster spokesperson.\">labeled \u201cdangerous\u201d simply<\/a> because we have\u200b a biblical worldview and speak \u200bthe truth about \u200dwhat is happening in America.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We refuse to let Big\u2062 Tech and woke advertisers dictate the content we share with our community. We stand for \u200ctruth.\u2062 We stand for freedom. We stand with our readers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re asking you to help us in \u200bthis fight. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We can\u2019t \u200ddo this \u2062without you<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governor-goes-around-voters-backs-signs-change-in-state-election-laws\/\" title=\"Governor sneaks behind voters, enacts new election laws.\">donation directly helps fund<\/a> our editorial team\u2064 of\u2063 writers and editors. Your\u2064 support means we \u200dcan \u200ccontinue \u2064to expose false narratives and defend traditional American\u2062 values.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please stand with us by donating today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Thank you for your\u200b support!<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u200c post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-100-years\/\">After Tumultuous Regular Season, MLB Suffers \u200dLowest Postseason Attendance in 100 Years<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2064 What factors contributed \u200cto the historically low attendance at the AL \u2062Wild Card game between the Texas \u2064Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  If a team loses in the playoffs, but \u2063nobody\u2019s \u200daround to watch \u200dit, does it actually count? Obviously yes, and it\u2019s not like nobody was in attendance when the Texas\u200b Rangers traveled to\u2064 face \u2063the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL\u2063 Wild Card\u200d game on Tuesday. But when\u200c the Rangers won \u200c4-0, the most pressing storyline to emerge from that game had to do with the number of fans in attendance \u2014 or not in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>According\u200c to a report from The Athletic, \u200bTuesday\u2019s \u2064Wild Card tilt drew a\u2063 relatively paltry 19,704 \u2064fans to Tropicana \u200cField. That figure is the lowest \u2064postseason attendance number seen since\u2064 Game 7 (in a\u200d best-of-nine) of the infamous 1919 World Series between \u2062the Chicago White Sox and the\u2064 Cincinnati Reds\u2062 \u2014 and that\u2063 game had \u2063a number of extenuating factors\u200c working \u2063against\u2064 it. (Of note, all attendance figures are not \u2062counting COVID-19 \u2062era issues, when fans were\u2063 not\u2063 allowed\u2062 in stadiums.)<\/p>\n<p>For the unaware, the 1919 World Series is often\u200b referred \u2064to as\u200c the\u2062 &#8220;Chicago Black Sox&#8221; scandal,\u200c wherein various members of \u200cthe White Sox were given lifetime bans \u2063from baseball for betting on the series. But it wasn\u2019t any hearsay \u2063of something untoward happening \u2063that deterred\u2063 fans from attending.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the Society \u2063for American\u2063 Baseball Research (SABR), The\u2063 Athletic reports \u200cthat the 1919\u200b game\u200b only saw 13,923 attendees because the Reds had \u200ctheir \u200dfans buy tickets \u2064in three-game &#8220;blocks.&#8221; \u2064That\u2019s \u200cfine for your first three \u2062home games \u200din a series, but for the fourth\u2062 game? It presented all\u2063 manner of logistical issues that stifled the attendance that \u200bgame.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s game has \u200dno \u200dsuch neat\u2064 and tidy explanation apart from &#8220;The Rays just don\u2019t draw \u2014 even for \u2063the postseason.&#8221; Indeed, \u200cthat\u2019s the most succinct explanation posited \u2064by The Athletic, \u200das\u200b the outlet notes that the Rays\u200c averaged a meager\u2064 17,781 fans \u2063per game in the regular season. Given that, the silver\u200d lining for the\u200b Rays here is\u2063 that this playoff game did exceed the team\u2019s average attendance. The downside \u200bthen, obviously, is that it still set a century-old\u200c low.<\/p>\n<p>For MLB, this is yet \u200canother ignominious \u200cheadline in a season that\u200c the league would \u200dprobably like to quickly leave in the rearview. \u200dAs Awful Announcing reported, national viewership\u2064 of MLB games this year has been stagnant and \u2064disappointing. The Rangers, one of the teams in this\u200b game, \u2063had \u200ba\u200c constant negative media\u2063 cloud hanging over them because they \u2063refused to \u200dparticipate in LGBT festivities. And several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-tumultuous-regular-season-mlb-suffers-lowest-postseason-attendance-in-100-years\/\" title=\"MLB's Postseason Attendance Hits 100-Year Low After Turbulent Season\">teams adopted polarizing facial scanning technology<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<p>And while those are lingering issues that may become a \u200dmassive headache eventually, it pales \u2064in comparison to the actual \u2062national\u200b headache\u200c that was the Los Angeles Dodgers, one of MLB\u2019s premiere franchises, this season. The\u200c Dodgers came under intense national scrutiny for &#8220;honoring&#8221; \u2062a\u2064 cross-dressing group of blasphemers known as the &#8220;Sisters\u200b of Perpetual Indulgence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the attendance at Tuesday\u2019s AL Wild Card game between the Texas Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays was the lowest in\u200c postseason history since the\u2063 1919 World Series. While there have \u2062been\u2062 extenuating circumstances in the past, the low attendance for this game can largely be attributed to the \u2062Rays&#8217; historically low fan base. However, this is\u2063 just one of the many issues that\u200c MLB has faced this season, including\u200b stagnant viewership and \u200bcontroversies surrounding certain teams. It remains to be seen how\u200b the league will \u200caddress\u200c and overcome these challenges in the\u200c future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a team loses in the playoffs without an audience, does it still count? Yes, it does. The Texas Rangers faced the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Wild Card game, with spectators present. The Rangers&#8217; 4-0 victory became the most significant narrative of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2055912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}