Cardinals attendance lowest in past 30 years

[Imperial Capitalist]

Unless they "cook the books," I question whether tickets sold in 2025 will reach 2 million. We should wait and see.

All teams report tickets sold, but it would be extremely interesting if teams dared to report actual attendance.

[Bushiro]

Went to the game on Friday. Have been a die hard fan my entire life. I have never been so bored at a MLB game in my life. This team is infuriatingly (not sure if that's a word) bad! No stars to watch. Who wants to spend $200-$300 to take your family to a game for that? Prices are out of control and the atmosphere SUCKED! Worst feeling I've had as a fan in my lifetime. Minor league games are more entertaining than that, honestly!!

Also, the fact that over half the crowd were Yankees fans was even more disgusting! Ownership should be EMBARRASSED!!!!

Yeah my buddy who is a Yankees fan went yesterday and said he couldn't believe how many seats were empty....said it was also the worst cards team he's seen in a very long time...

[Goldfan]

Went to the game on Friday. Have been a die hard fan my entire life. I have never been so bored at a MLB game in my life. This team is infuriatingly (not sure if that's a word) bad! No stars to watch. Who wants to spend $200-$300 to take your family to a game for that? Prices are out of control and the atmosphere SUCKED! Worst feeling I've had as a fan in my lifetime. Minor league games are more entertaining than that, honestly!!

Also, the fact that over half the crowd were Yankees fans was even more disgusting! Ownership should be EMBARRASSED!!!!

Yeah my buddy who is a Yankees fan went yesterday and said he couldn't believe how many seats were empty....said it was also the worst cards team he's seen in a very long time...

He’s a smart man!!

[BalotelliMassive]

Baseball is probably the easiest sport to follow on television - not sure how people can stand going to a game in the St. Louis heat. Add the price of everything up and it's just not worth it to many anymore - kids aren't exactly begging their parents to take them to the ball game these days.

[45s]

This is why you can't simply slash payroll to the bare bones

St. Louis WILL NOT support a loser Cardinals team (re: 1970's).

BDWJr is going to make a massive mistake if he goes through w/his plans to slash payroll even further in 2026.

Hello 1.5M attendance

Hello your franchise value plummeting by HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS!

NOT SMART BILL, NOT SMART AT ALL

He’s worth 4 billion….he likely knows what he’s doing..

[Rojo Johnson]

Baseball is probably the easiest sport to follow on television - not sure how people can stand going to a game in the St. Louis heat. Add the price of everything up and it's just not worth it to many anymore - kids aren't exactly begging their parents to take them to the ball game these days.

So, what you’re saying to Bill is don’t worry, raise season ticket prices 10-15% for next year since your 2025 plan knocked it out of the park?

I think Cranny must’ve been giving Ol’ Bill some advice for the ’25 season, plus the season ticket increase for ’26. It just seems so natural.

[Absolut]

Went to the game on Friday. Have been a die hard fan my entire life. I have never been so bored at a MLB game in my life. This team is infuriatingly (not sure if that's a word) bad! No stars to watch. Who wants to spend $200-$300 to take your family to a game for that? Prices are out of control and the atmosphere SUCKED! Worst feeling I've had as a fan in my lifetime. Minor league games are more entertaining than that, honestly!!

Also, the fact that over half the crowd were Yankees fans was even more disgusting! Ownership should be EMBARRASSED!!!!

Same. Add in the fact it was like 150 degrees, team sucks and I’ll I could think was I have ac and beer at home.

Concession folks were excited there were people in the house.

[mike laga]

No more public funding for updates for the stadium for the Dewits.

Coffee is for closers.

[WLTFE]

This season was an obvious "test the waters" for ownership to see if they could spend zero money, not put out a fun product and see if the baseball fans still show up. They probably have been told their entire lives that Cardinals fans will always show up no matter what or there is nothing else to do in STL than watch baseball during the summer.

Well they are being proven wrong.

+1.... DeTwit and Mo-ran (bleep) up!

[okcardfan]

I asked CHATGPT to do the research, and the last season with lower average attendance was 1981.
1981.
Not 30 years ago.
44 years ago.
FORTY-FOUR SEASONS AGO!!

[tgharris]

Unless they "cook the books," I question whether tickets sold in 2025 will reach 2 million. We should wait and see.

All teams report tickets sold, but it would be extremely interesting if teams dared to report actual attendance.

Back in the so-called day, the Cardinals did. "Paid" attendance, and "total" attendance.

[rockondlouie]

This season was an obvious "test the waters" for ownership to see if they could spend zero money, not put out a fun product and see if the baseball fans still show up. They probably have been told their entire lives that Cardinals fans will always show up no matter what or there is nothing else to do in STL than watch baseball during the summer.

Well they are being proven wrong.

Bingo hook!

I posted this Winter that this was a con game BDWJr was pulling on the fan base, lying about this being a "runway" season to evaluate the young players so he could SLASH PAYROLL!

CT has already deleted but here's what I also said in May:

Re: Do you haters feel dumb when the Cards win 5 in a row?
Post by rockondlouie » 08 May 2025 08:53 am

You mean a payroll slashing con game where they play (essentially) the same players?

[blackinkbiz]

Unless they "cook the books," I question whether tickets sold in 2025 will reach 2 million. We should wait and see.

All teams report tickets sold, but it would be extremely interesting if teams dared to report actual attendance.

I was working out of an office that looked over the stadium until a couple months ago and my estimate is the ACTUAL attendance will likely average out around 17k a game. So, maybe, MAYBE, 1.4 million through the turnstiles this season.

[Cranny]

This season was an obvious "test the waters" for ownership to see if they could spend zero money, not put out a fun product and see if the baseball fans still show up. They probably have been told their entire lives that Cardinals fans will always show up no matter what or there is nothing else to do in STL than watch baseball during the summer.

Well they are being proven wrong.

Bingo hook!

I posted this Winter that this was a con game BDWJr was pulling on the fan base, lying about this being a "runway" season to evaluate the young players so he could SLASH PAYROLL!

CT has already deleted but here's what I also said in May:

Re: Do you haters feel dumb when the Cards win 5 in a row?
Post by rockondlouie » 08 May 2025 08:53 am

You mean a payroll slashing con game where they play (essentially) the same players?

Con game? Lying? ..................................Absurd.

[rockondlouie]

This season was an obvious "test the waters" for ownership to see if they could spend zero money, not put out a fun product and see if the baseball fans still show up. They probably have been told their entire lives that Cardinals fans will always show up no matter what or there is nothing else to do in STL than watch baseball during the summer.

Well they are being proven wrong.

Bingo hook!

I posted this Winter that this was a con game BDWJr was pulling on the fan base, lying about this being a "runway" season to evaluate the young players so he could SLASH PAYROLL!

CT has already deleted but here's what I also said in May:

Re: Do you haters feel dumb when the Cards win 5 in a row?
Post by rockondlouie » 08 May 2025 08:53 am

You mean a payroll slashing con game where they play (essentially) the same players?

Con game? Lying? ..................................Absurd.

TRUTH hurts

Even Mo can't keep his story straight this season.

CON GAME from BDWJr so he could SLASH PAYROLL.

He's a fool if he tries this scam again next season, better give C. Bloom at least a $160M payroll or he's looking at 1.5M attendance.

And he's losing multi hundreds of millions in franchise value.

[YNWA2016]

good... it should remain like this until new owners arrive