The big commotion surrounding Milwaukee and the Brewers, besides their continued awful performance on the road, is Miller Park playing houseguest to the Indians and Angels. With 19,000+ Milwaukeeonians showing up for the AL matchup I think it was a good representation of our enjoyment of the game of baseball. There is always talk about how much a city is a "baseball town" or the city is a "fan of the game." By having two teams play away from their fan base in a regular season game gave us the opportunity to show that Brewer's fans are also big fans of baseball in general.
Now the inevitable debate arises; what is the over/under on how many games the Brewers will play at Miller Park and not draw 19,000 fans? Last year's average attendance was 28,000+.
Let's brake it down: 81 home games, take away the home opener because that is always sold out. Cubs (6) and Minnesota (3) games are always big draws. Three against St. Louis and San Fran (Let's boo Barry) should grab 19 K easy. Now we're down to 65. Subtract the six games on the weekend that dont' include the previous teams and you have 59 potential games. 15 times the brewers couldn't break the 19K mark last year so this year's over/under of 19,000 is 12.5 on the fact that we're averaging 7,000 more fans per home game after the same amount of home games last year and the Brewers should compete for the weak central which will draw more fans.
So we've showed we're fans of any baseball in Milwaukee, let's see how big of fans we will end up being of the Brewers.
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