Any way you slice it, the Padres' 4-2 loss to the Rockies before a crowd of 31,057 was disheartening for a team that severed ties with center fielder Jim Edmonds earlier in the day before going on to lose for the 18th time in its last 22 games.
There's no way that was a crowd of over 30k. I thought I saw bunches of empty seats. Anybody at the game confirm? The Official Site of The San Diego Padres: News: San Diego Padres News
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Tickets Sold
No matter how poorly the team plays, a sizeable chunk of the team’s tickets for this season have already been sold. A lot of season tickets are going unused. But I think the 30k number was in the ballpark.
by Enzo Hernandez on
May 10, 2008 6:51 AM PDT
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really?
you saw 30k? on tv it looked like less. I know they go by tickets sold, but when they’d show the infield crowd there were lots of notably empty seats.
by Dex on
May 10, 2008 9:38 AM PDT
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Paid Attendance is one thing
Actual fannies in the seats is another.
by strummer on
May 10, 2008 7:15 AM PDT
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Same attendance ESPN.com Reported
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
by sdsuaztec4 on
May 10, 2008 8:05 AM PDT
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So there's 10,000 angry Jim Edmonds fans now?
Great, guys, what’d you do that for?
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
by Axion on
May 10, 2008 10:07 AM PDT
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Did they do the "guess the attendance" game at the stadium?
I always thought that meant bodies through the turnstyles, not tickets sold. Those must have been some depressing fireworks last night.
by SD Chick N on
May 10, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
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4 and 2 were used and the woman correctly guessed lower on both for 31k fans. Late in the game they cleared the Park at the Park (as they always do for post game fireworks) and I looked around and noted that many sections of the Upper Reserved looked full. Even late in the game people were staying, well over 20k “fannies” in the seating bowl in the seventh inning, so you figure the concorses and bathrooms and I bet there were more than 25-28k last night and only a couple thousand season ticket no-shows. Though I must admit to leaving at the end of eigth, yeah I did, got a problem with that?
by TheRevRun on
May 10, 2008 11:27 AM PDT
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We were sitting like 15 rows behind you RevRun
We were in the very last row of your section. When you were sitting down I was calling out to you, but you didn’t hear me. We were stuck in the middle so couldn’t get out easy enough come down.
by jbox on
May 10, 2008 12:38 PM PDT
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I thought the crowd was much smaller than the 31K
I was thinking it was around 20K. It was really odd. Quiet crowd, nobody on the concourses, no problems walking around. The people that were there were the walking dead. It kinda reminded me of the old days at Qualcomm like in 2000 or so.
by jbox on
May 10, 2008 12:40 PM PDT
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the walking dead
hilarious analogy. sorry we missed each other, catch you next time bro
by TheRevRun on
May 10, 2008 12:49 PM PDT
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agree
I was there too and was very surprised by the Guess the Attendance number. They definitely based it on tickets sold.
by Gone Savage on
May 10, 2008 2:42 PM PDT
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if i had to guess, i’d say there were about 27k butts in the yard last night. the park at the park was disappointingly sparce compared to a usual jake friday night effort. that’s a reflection of depressed walk-up.
attendance is always paid, not bodies.
by mlb22 on
May 10, 2008 3:40 PM PDT
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I was there
That number seemed right. People definitely trickled in later than usual. It was really empty at the start of the game. The Rockies typically aren’t that big of a draw anyway. IIRC it was pretty rare for a Rockies game to push 40,000 back in the attendance glory days.
I watched all 23 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.
by Wonko on
May 10, 2008 5:38 PM PDT
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