Big deal, neither Dodger Stadium nor Turner Field was at 100% or better (based on the metric they, use playoff sellouts are often higher than 100% due to seating added for the postseason) in their series for any of the games, while every other game this postseason was over 100% (except at the Trop). And if you want to talk attendance you're not exactly coming from a position of strength - Progressive Field was a league low 45.3% full this season.Imagine the difference between that and a BOS-LAD series. Now you have pretty much your best case and your worst case (from a ratings perspective of course).
Blah, blah, blah. A team should be able to sell out their playoff games, end of story.
As far as the Indians go, they had no problem selling out entire seasons before a game was played when the owners were willing to spend money. As soon as Dolan came in and decided to slash spending and become the farm system for the Yankees fans also stopped showing up.
2nd half collapses in 2011 and 2012 didn't help the case this year either.
Nor did the doubling of ticket prices for 2013 though they said they had a 20% rise in ticket revenue over 2012 when attendance was slightly higher so maybe they're not as dumb as they look.
At any rate I've never seen a crowd anywhere as worked up and passionate as the WC crowd here last week. Shame it had to end the way it did.