I say the over/under would be 15,000. I'll take the over. Saturday night. Cubbies not in town. Supposed to be beautiful weather. No Taste. NE coming in. Fire playing great. If they don't draw > 15,000 there is a problem. I think the last few games' attendance were just aberrations.
Over or under 11,000 should be the question and i'll take the under. If people are going to go to a soccer game soon its going to be A.C v Fire or the DH with Real v Chivas.
I agree, just like May, would you rather see the Fire or US v. England. The internationals are great but they HAVE to biting into attendence.
Plus - still no advertising behind this. Drawing 11k would be a 3k jump from what we've been getting lately. That's about a 40% increase. Depressing, but true. Still, it is a weekend without too much competition. I say we'll have 11,300 announced.
I predict between 9,500 and 10,500, but these may be high figures and my wishful thinking. My reasoning is that the White Sox, who hold the best record in baseball, are in town then. Their game starts at about 7 p.m. Moreover, as has been mentioned, anyone who pays attention to MLS knows that both teams will be depleted of many of their star players because of injury or Gold Cup. I also agree that potential Fire fans who have not come out are more likely to go to the Real Madrid doubleheader, for which I bought 4 extra tickets, and/or the AC Milan game. Still, the fact that it is against the best team in soccer (my opinion) on a beautiful Saturday night (as noted) will help attract fans. The evening game might be better for families who have children playing in afternoon soccer leagues or participating in other sports or non-sports functions. As a season ticket holder for the past several years, I have been lucky not to have missed more than a game or two.
But not that big a jump from our Saturday evening matches this year. The last of which, Chivas USA, drew 12,750 (of course that was with Chivas bounce). I'm putting the over under at 11,000 and taking the just under at 10,943.
I don't know, if that's the best excuse we can come up with this week, there'd better be a good 12,000+ there. The White Sox, for all their success this year, are barely on pace to draw 2 million fans. We'll probably still get around 11,200 though.
I just hope we can break into 5 digits because all this 8k shlt is pissing me off. I'm guessing 'round 10,200. I would be happy with that.
It'll be between 22 and 24,000. If our news stations bump up the previews from game day to include the day before, and the percentage of coverage goes from .003% to 5%.
If you actually look at the freakin numbers from last year we averaged 15,916 with a Median of 12,828 and we only dipped below 10,000 twice, so charateizing it as a 2 year aberrtion is hardly right. That said I predict 9,999