Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or fears over the economy.
is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2 1/2 months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions.
While MLB’s average attendance had fallen each year since 2015, most of the drops were by less than 2%. Average attendance was over 30,000 for 14 straight seasons from 2004-17 but hasn't reached that mark since. "If travel's disrupted, either by expensive gas prices or expensive airline tickets or just general travel disruptions, that could make a big dent," Matheson said.
"But those are factors that are common across all sorts of recreational experiences," Lindsey said. "And a lot of recreational entertainment — dining out, travel — a lot of those areas are back to pre-pandemic levels." "The group business has not returned to anywhere near normal levels, frankly not surprisingly," Schlesinger said.
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