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May 9, 2013We did talk briefly about the attendance, but really not much at all. We’ve both agreed that it shouldn’t dominate the headlines a second year in a row.
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Lackluster attendance and how tired we are of talking about it
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Bud Shaw’s article about the long-term project
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TV ratings and how far they’re up year over year
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You can’t get the pulse of casual fans that stopped going
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Nick Swisher truly has intangibles
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LeBron dancing and picture-taking vs. Nick Swisher’s mugging and dancing
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Grady Sizemore and Travis Hafner while great guys and decent players weren’t electric personalities
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Mike Aviles throwing sunflower seeds at Terry Francona during in-game interview
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Francona setting his own bar so very high for himself in Boston
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Jonathan Papelbon and how purely hateable he is
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Theo Epstein and how he’s disappeared into the Cubs job
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Brett Meyers, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the also-rans in the system
- Ubaldo Jimenez and how Francona is managing him
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“Nick Swisher truly has intangibles.”
“Intangibles” is truly a vacuous concept. Once you start describing these “intangibles,” they become tangible, don’t they?
Kudos for making the attendance issue a mere line item. This team has won 10 of 11—anyone who wants to make this the focal point of a narrative is either intellectually dishonest or doesn’t have a clue about the game of baseball.
I’m not sure anyone is making it a focal point. But it is an important point, and is hotly contested as it is a divisive point. Surely you can understand that if the Indians can’t draw even decent attendances when they play well, that suggests a problem with the long-term healthy of the franchise.