How the hell can the Red Sox draw more fans

[Oeditpus Rex]

than Fenway holds? :wtf:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance?sort=home_pct&year=2007&seasonType=2

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. 'Cause we New Englanders are cool like that, Your Majesty.

:P :P

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. You must be really skinny, too

:P

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Hey, man, I can't speak for all of Red Sox Nation....

:P :P

[DS1]

2. Average in the fact that it's really Red Sox Nation and there's plenty

of opportunity.

[jobycom]

3. Hire Katherine Harris to count them?

:shrug:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. They sell standing room. (nt)

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Is that not included in the capacity?

ballparks.com lists Fenway's capacity as 38,805. :shrug:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. Depends on who's counting the stats, I presume.

I don't think you'll find an MLB sanctioned definition on the matter.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Giants did it in 2000 according to the same charts.

Maybe the count includes SRO tickets.

Sports statistics are weird.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Well, baseball counts sales, not the house

Maybe the Sox are over-selling. :shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Official night time capacity is around 38K. The average in the chart is under 37K

Sports stats are weird. As Vash wrote, it may depend on the definition of capacity.

All I know is that it's much easier and cheaper to watch the Sox play in the Oakland coliseum and when they do the place is a sea of red. I'm convinced that Sox fans outnumbered A's fans at some games.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I dunno if this still holds, but

a couple years ago, the Sox were the highest-priced game in both leagues. Someone developed an index for a family of four that included tickets, parking, food and souvenirs, and at Fenway it came to a little more than $200.

:wow:

[matcom]

13. same reason they cheered louder in Atlanta last night for Papi

than they did Chipper.

Red Sox are LOVED everywhere

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I love my cat

But she weighs nine pounds, and I can't stuff 10 pounds of tuna into her.

:P









On the other hand, I've never tried.

[matcom]

15. sure you can

if you stuff her ears, nose and bunghole full of tuna you can :D

that is essentially what they do at Fenway