Why aren't Indian fans attending the games?

Whey aren't the Tribe fans attending the games? Today they had about 25,000 and the stadium holds 43,000. They are in 1st place in the middle of a very exciting playoff race. There were reasons earlier this year. April it was snowing. In May they didn't think the Tribe was for real. In June there was the Cavs. In July there was Brady Quinn and the Browns. It's August now and there are no more excuses. The only games we sell out are on the weeked(sometimes)Tigers games, and Yankee/red Sox games. I know we are great fans(sold out 455 games MLB record)but why isn't anyone coming? We're winning. Fun playoff race. Dolan is actually spending some money. What more do you want?

Why aren't Indian fans attending the games?
I don't know why a Blue Jays fan would talk trash your from Canada what do you have to talk trash about, plus you have less of a shot than we do. Detroit fans I used to respect but they are about as lame as Yankees fans anymore.





White Sox fans crying about booing Thome, I actually feel sorry for your team this year.





I don't think they are that bad with seating, sure they aren't sold out but the games I went to they had alot of people in the stands sure it was against Detroit one time and the Yankees the other time, but still there are people there.





The Browns pre-season was pretty well packed too and that was a pre-season game.





It just ashame that some of the other fans on here don't know anything about baseball, and make comments showing how stupid they are, because Cleveland are the most loyal fans there are and anyone who says otherwise must have had their heads up their asss for the last 106 years.





I won't talk trash I will let the record do that for me.
Reply:Goofy question, goofier answer.





In fact, I'd wager that the same person wrote both. Report It

Reply:How is it a goofy question? It's the truth. Me and Kevin B are not the same person. Report It

Reply:The same reason that the Browns were driven to bankruptcy and out of town under Art Modell. Cleveland sports fans suck.
Reply:More people are spending time at football games and spending money there. People care less about baseball and want more action. Base ball has a long season and people are tired of seeing all the games. Also tickets and food at games are expensive. Baseball and Football of course.
Reply:because cleveland fans are idiots
Reply:Were you at the game? Maybe you should have been there to help fill the seats.
Reply:Once again disproving one of the biggest myths in sports, that Cleveland fans are great fans. And before you go and dis my answer, I live 45 minutes from Cleveland, so I know exactly what I'm talking about.





The 455 sellout came in the late 90s when the stadium was new and the Tribe were among the league elite. The Flats were booming, downtown was revitalized and heading into the city on a summer night became the "thing" to do.





But eventually the team was broken up. Albert left. Manny left. Thome left. Colon was traded. Alomar was traded. They tried to trade Omar for Carlos Guillen, but Guillen failed his physical (wouldn't you like to do that one over). The fans, instead of realizing that a small market city has to take a few lumps in order to be competitive long term jumped like rats off a sinking ship. Everybody bitched and moaned, acting like they knew better, just like Cleveland fans always do.





Shapiro said that the team would be competitive again in '06. He was off by a year, the young talent on the '05 team came very close to the playoffs. The only ones that noticed, however, were the real Indians fans, not the 20,000 who treated going to the Jake like a social event.





The team took a step back last year, but this year they're playing close to their potential (It's time to get hot, Pronk!). People are starting to pay attention again, but it's only because they're winning. I remember in the 90s you would walk into a bar on a Tuesday night in June and you couldn't play the jukebox until after the game was over because they had the game on the sound system. For the last 5 years until this year, you were lucky if they even had the game on.





The two big problems that present itself are that the front running fans got spoiled by the teams of the 90s. And now the Flats is a complete ghost town. You can always go to the Warehouse district, but it's not as conveniant and it's just not the same. When they make the playoffs this year (which they will, no Sheffield? Bye bye, Tigers) it will be the "it" thing to do in Cleveland for awhile. Just like Cavs games were this year.





And as for the Cleveland sports fan myth. In 1994, the year the Browns made the playoffs under Bellichek, I went to the next to last home game at old Municipal. This was a team in a playoff hunt, next to last game of the season. I walked up, bought a ticket on the street for half of face value and sat at the 40 yard line as the Browns beat the Seahawks 35-7. Dan McGwire, Mark's little brother, started that game for Seattle and had one of the worse performances I've ever witnessed. Point being, good team, playoff run, December at the Dawg Pound, there weren't more than 25, 000 people at that game. That game got blacked out in the Cleveland market. The "Cleveland has the bestest fans in all the world" myth is the biggest lie in sports.





edit: Oh, and Kevin B, we had our heads up our asses for 106 years. Yeah, thats how they missed all of those rocking crowds of 3,000 and 4,000 that used to show up for Tribe games in the 70s and early 80s. Here's a great example. Len Barker pitched a perfect game in 1981 for the Indians. Know how many people were there? 7,209 %26lt;------------- that's it. Barely over seven thousand people. Damn you're loyal!!!!!!!!!





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Reply:Because it's August in the midwest - the dog days of summer. If it's as hot in Cleveland as it is in KC, I can see that driving the attendance down. Plus you've got to take into account a lot of people taking late summer vacations before school gets back in session. As far as I know Cleveland is pretty good about supporting their team, so I just think its a combo of timing and weather right now. Watch, when September rolls around, everybody has their kids back in school and the weather is a little cooler the stadium will fill up again.
Reply:They have given up on their team, they know its over!





Detroit will take them out !
Reply:The same reason they boo Thome, they are spoiled! You guys had great AL Central Champ teams for like hell of a lot of years and you got spoiled from it!