New York: occasionally Mets-town

Here’s an article that breaks down baseball attendance over the years, and it may surprise you kids but the Mets owned this town a few times over the years.

Not for one moment would I pretend that an enormous number of “fans” that attended Shea from 1985-1992 bothered returning until the late 1990’s. We can all agree that success breeds attendance. The point is rather a questioning of the undying loyalty that is preached in New York and around the country from the vast majority of Yankees “fans”. Had the Yankee fan base truly been comprised of die-hards, the 1985-1992 attendance swoon would have never happened.

Read more in The Truth About Yankees Fans.

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