In a sport where ticket prices are constantly being raised and the players are complaining that they are having trouble making ends meet, struggling on only 4 million a year, MLB decided that tickets are now not quite high enough for the few hundred people that actually still attend these pathetic games. Team owners complain that their stadiums are too old, and then hit the city up for building them a bigger stadium with more seating. Not a bigger field though, the fields are actually smaller, so the players can use their wooden rocket launchers and blast the balls half way into the upper deck riddling the empty seating, thus causing the scoring to skyrocket and changing the game completely. An average MLB stadium seats just under 47,800 people when the average attendance is in the 20K region. In 2003, attend for a MLB game was down 4.3% compared to 2002, which was down an addition 6.7% from the previous year. Since 2001, MLB attendance has dropped over 11% and shows no signs of leveling off. Now there is a true stat for MLB. I'm done, thanks for shopping.
