The Milwaukee Brewers weren't supposed to be in a division race on Sept. 21, not in 2017 at least, however entering Thursday's series opener they were a four-game sweep away from being in first place with one week left in the season. You'd expect that Brewers fans would be pumped to be hosting a vital late-season series against the Chicago Cubs and would pack Miller Park, right?
Not quite.
Miller Park has a capacity of 41,900, but those of us watching Thursday's game on TV saw a lot of empty seats. The official attendance was 35,114, but that includes all tickets sold not the amount of people who actually showed up. Anyway, as usual Cubs fans made the trip to Milwaukee and turned Miller Park into Wrigley North once again.
Isn't it wonderful to hear Ryan Braun booed in his home park?
Anyway, after the Cubs sucked the soul out of the Brewers, with a game-tying hit in the ninth and a two-run homer by Kris Bryant to win the game in the 10th, the following question was posed by a Milwaukee sports radio station on Twitter.
Yeah, I'm sure the Brewers can't wait to make less money by limiting the amount of people who buy their tickets after their own fans don't show up. There's a simple solution if Brewers fans want to cut down on the number of Cubs fans at Miller Park, BUY TICKETS AND SHOW UP! Apparently there's a thought that Brewers fans just don't like the atmosphere there when all the Cubs fans go to Miller Park, but again that makes zero sense because if the reason that you're not showing up is that Cubs are there then buy tickets, don't re-sell them and keep Cubs fans out by actually going to games. It's pretty embarrassing when your players have to ask the fan base to show up to home games in the stretch run of an overachieving season. Not only are the Brewers still in contention for a division title, but they're only one game out of the second Wild Card spot. These are huge games for them against a division rival no less and fans don't seem to care.
But hey, maybe Brewers fans didn't show up for a reason. https://www.sportsmockery.com/2017/09/brewers-fan-says-camera-javier-baez-ties-game-right-face/
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