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Posted By: Kyle

As shady as the Cubs scalping tickets?

In 2005, the Chicago Cubs sold 98% of all their home game tickets, averaging 38,753 fans per game, ranking 6th in Major League Baseball. Attendance on Road games was at 80% occupancy, resulting in the Cubs having the best overall Road and Home total attendance of all teams at 88.9% in MLB.

Your champion White Sox, and their "dedicated" fans supported your team by filling up your stadium at just 71%, averaging 28,923 fans per game (nearly 10,000 less fans per game than the Cubs) while having a capacity of over 40,000 (and we all know when the fans were there the most, when the team was winning at the end).

The reason? Cubs games are enjoyable, people like being there, people pay top dollar for tickets, HENCE why scalpers exist and why the fan base for the Cubs is so strong. Going to Joan Cusack Stadium is a lame experience, as the stadium is a gigantic concrete slab in a terrible neighborhood of Chicago. Transportation to and from the park is far from pleasant and overall, unsafe. The most enjoyable part of going to a Sox game is riding the RedLine to the park.


By the way, through the first three games of the season, the Cubs lead home attendance and overall attendance. Overall the Sox coming in 12th for combined attendance, and fourth for home games. In 2006, the Cubs are still averaging close to 4,000 more fan per game than the World Champions.

Sorry - I got a little Off-Topic


Cited Sources:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance?sort=all_pct&year=2005&seasonType=2
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/stadium?team=chw