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Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan
i mean that was an outlier but they do often draw less than 15,000 a game..
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early in the season during an unusually chilly "spring" like the one we're having chicago this year (15-20 degrees below normal, for fuck's sake!), that's not at all uncommon.
if you look at the past 5 seasons, the sox have averaged ~21,000/game (placing them in the bottom 5 of MLB in average attendance for each of the last 5 years in a row), and once the weather warms up in the coming weeks and months, they'll probably balance out to somewhere around that number again by the end of the season, unless they catch fire and more fans bother to show up.
the white sox are a franchise in the doldrums right now. they've finished last or 2nd to last in their division for the past 5 years in a row, the last time they even potentially sniffed the playoffs was 2010, and the last time they actually made the payoffs was 2008. i don't know when the ship will be righted, but a decade-long playoff drought tends to put a damper on fan enthusiasm and ballpark attendance.
the sox fans are certainly there in chicagoland, in great numbers, they're just a cynical bunch who won't go to the ballpark and support their team just because.
sox fans need a reason to show up, whereas cubs fans will show up just to drink and be merry in america's largest outdoor bar, even if the team on the field is mediocre.