Royal Attendance Hits Season Low Thursday Night

the royals have been consistently 13th or 14th in the AL in attendance over the recent years…

so I could see it being between 9000 and 9500 if the game was on TV. Then again, it’s not like this team does a great job telling people when games aren’t televised in the promos and the FSNKC games aired schedule is always frontloaded

And 9700 is the official number, in reality, it might be closer to 7000, not accounting for the people who just stay in the porch, rivals, or the outfield experience

at this time in the season? My impression is that it should be a bit up, but that is based on talking with an anonymous scout…

I haven’t been to a single game this year—the first time in years. Sure, I’ve been busy with various projects (ahem v v ), but staring down the barrel of another 95 losses and perhaps one or two players that might be on the 2013 World Series Team, I can’t find a whole lot of motivation to go.

The Royals are just as bad or worse than ever. Brutally hot for several home games lately. I think the attendance will continue to drop in the next few years if the Royals continue to show absolutely no life. I’m really tired of caring about this team, to be honest. I go to 5-10 games a year, but lately I feel like a rube for doing so.

That being said, if these young guys can come on in the next two years and get something going, the K will fill up in a hurry. KC is desperate for some decent baseball.

they want “baseball players” on the field like Pods, Guillen and The Spork

In the KCStar write-up of last night’s loss, I saw this sentence which stunned me:

It was crushing turnaround that snatched a victory from Davies and prevented the Royals from stretching their winning streak to a season-high four games.

Wow. That is pathetic. Not managed to win more than 3 games in a row all year. I only casually follow the team, and have no limit to my disdain for Dayton Moore and his band of misfits like Yuni, but I had a vague recollection that we enjoyed a pretty decent stretch there after Yost was hired (one or two great weeks from contention!) and figured we surely would have won at least 4 in a row in there.

The Royals really are just a terrible, terrible baseball team. It’s no wonder people don’t go see them.

The metro area may lack a ballpark+bar & restaurant scene in one place, but I think the location and setup of the K continues to benefit the Royals.

The major benefit being that Glass gets to collect his $10 per car for 2,000-3,000 (guesstimates) cars every night. Plus build in the parking costs into season ticket sales. With a downtown stadium, they would lose a huge chunk of the parking revenue from people just parking in city/non-Royals-owned garages, walking over from their offices, etc. Plus, the potenial concession/beer losses that would have naturally followed from having plenty of non-Royals owned drinking establishments so close to the stadium.

I’m firmly convinced that those issues were the deciding factors in Glass being so eager to kill any notion of a downtown stadium.

I guess the more appropriate question is… how many fans have to be in the seats to make a profit on the game?

They lost one potential ticket last night because I simply can’t do $10 by myself, considering that it’s also a 35 minute drive for me.

I think the main factor was that there were absolutely no promotions, though.

the Oakland Coliseum on a Monday night game. It makes the Royal’s attendance seem robust in comparison.

So I logged in to say something negative.

Alex Gordon blows.

I feel better already.

it could be tonight’s second game of the double header – which will probably start at 9:45 at the earliest.