THE RANGERS?! WTF?!

Didn’t they fail to sell out their playoff games?

I think I’m dumber for having read that article. They are basically saying that b/c Pirates, Rangers, Brave, etc attendance is always low then they must have some othe most loyal fans.

If you can’t sell out a playoff game, your fans suck. Period.

Cubs fans have been very loyal through the good years and the lean years. Our eternal hope always keeps us going despite our previous failings. We have still been there even through horrible seasons as well. we have not turned our back on this team when they have disappointed us, crushed us, or torn our hearts our nor have we become aloof with their success.

That was just a poorly, thought out article.

is that a poorly researched and written article.

don’t fall in either list. The Dodgers draw 3 mil per year, every year, even in a ‘drought’ of titles and they don’t rate?

The Angels ranking, does make sense.

The Rangers aren’t a team that I would have thought of, but it takes loyalty to go out in the Texas heat and watch that team every year.

Don’t they have a horrible attendance record? (Besides when they are winning of course, which isn’t very often)

The Twins have the 4th least loyal fans in baseball?!?!?! That right there is a load of crap. So what if they don’t sell out, the Metrodome is like a 60,000 seat stadium, and it sucks for baseball. I can almost guarantee that when the new stadium is built, that it will be hard to get tickets.

This list is crap, Twins fans are very loyal. They may not be the most loyal, but they are much better than 4th least.

Didn’t the Cubs add something like 2,000 seats or so just a few years ago. So compairing the attendance from the 90’s to now would throw things off.

They have trouble selling out playoff games don’t they?

And speaking from experience, the Pirates don’t belong in the top 10. People go to the games in more Steelers gear than Pirates. Pittsburgh is a football town. I can’t believe I’m even letting this site get me worked up.

And not just for the obvious (to us) reasons.

You can’t quantify loyalty based on X attendance versus Y winning seasons. You can’t quantify loyalty in any way. There may be a Blue Jays fan out there to rival the most die-hard Cub/Red Sox/Cardinal fan. There are quite a few bandwagoning Cub fans out there right now. I never saw a Red Sox cap in the western burbs before 2004.

That is what this article is.
I am going to guess that since Forbes is of more interest to the rich jet set business man, that their comentary on baseball in any way shape or form should have nothing to do with fan loyalty. If they want to approach baseball perhaps it should be from the angle of “Where can you spend rediculous money for a seat to sit in with a suit on and jabber on cell phone the whole game?” or “What ball bark has the best luxury suite in which to sip expensive whiskey while wooing some Chinese company?”

I would guess it’s pretty close between Cubs, Cards, BoSox, and maybe Dodgers fans for the loyalty title. The reason I say maybe for the Dodgers is because they still find it cool to be two or three innings late for the game and to clear out an inning or two early. Seems to me it’s more of a social function than a bunch of baseball fans.