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If You're There, You Can't Change The Channel When You're Bored
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Tuesday night's Tampa Bay Rays-Toronto Blue Jays game at the Trop in St. Petersburg drew the Rays' smallest announced crowd ever, 5,786, and there are always going to be explanations for it -- the park location, of course, being paramount, a long drive for people on the Tampa side of the bay -- and excuses and calls for moving the team (which is good, so that's not an explanation) to Montreal or Charlotte or Portland, but I think that baseball's attendance woes almost everywhere (have you seen the White Sox "crowds" lately?) raise a larger issue, whether baseball's become too boring, too homer-and-strikeout, too grandpa's-game, not worth the drive and ticket price. I mean, I'm a huge baseball fan, I pay for MLB.tv, but my team's in town this coming weekend and I don't think I'm gonna go; it's too much of a hassle with parking, traffic, rowdy fans (I'd be a visiting fan and that's not safe at Dodger Stadium anymore), concession and ticket prices... at what point did you decide that baseball (or any pro sport) wasn't worth seeing in person anymore? (Deadspin)
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