Josh Hamilton sticks it to Rangers, fans again

RalJon Maryland, home of the Washington Redskins, is an NFL town.

 

How are crowds in Anaheim since they've gotten good over the last decade, or more specifically, since they added Pujols? I would hope they stay longer than Dodgers' fans do.

 

It dropped by about 105,000 (almost 1,300 a game) last year from the year before. That's only weird because they signed Albert Pujols and brought up Mike Trout in the offseason. The peak was in 2006, when they brought in 3,406,790, second in the American League. It's gone down a little every year since, now at 3,061,770, third in the AL.

The Angels haven't made the playoffs in three years, though.

 

Boston's not much of a college town.

 

One of my favorite throwaway lines in "This is Spinal Tap."

 

First and foremost, New York is most definitely a baseball town. There's interest in the other sports and teams in the area, of course, just like there is in Boston and Chicago, but it has always been a baseball town. Hell, it used to have three baseball teams. Most cities can't support one.

 

Now Philly, that's a rock and roll town.

 

I would hope that having Hamilton, Trout and Pujols (among others) would be enough to draw well, but in the LA area, you just never know... I think the perception in the LA area is that unless you're winning, you won't draw well, and sometimes that's not even enough... Obviously, the Lakers are the exception...

 

First and foremost, New York is most definitely a money town.

 

you have to be kidding, right?

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/laatte.shtml

 

I let the attendance numbers tell me whether a market is a baseball market or not ("town" doesn't work in DFW because DFW is a collection of towns). In 2012, Texas was third in attendance, Anaheim seventh.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance/_/year/2012

In 2001, Seattle was No. 1 and Cleveland was No. 4.