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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Wild Card first game attendances:
TEX at TBA = 19,704
TOR at MIN = 38,450
ARI at MIL = 40,892
MIA at PHI = 45,662
Seems to be more of a Tampa Bay problem, not an MLB problem.
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Their attendance overall in the playoffs is up this year.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...D/attend.shtml
They are an outlier, but still show the same poor trends in modern MLB.
Playoff TV ratings are all around down this year. Being in Tampa has nothing to do with that.
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