but I find a higher % of O’s fans are actually O’s smart than most other teams (yanks, Sox, Etc). I’d imagine that this is because the casual fans have no reason to stick around when you’ve lost for 12 straight years. Maybe its hard for some people to get terribly excited about a team that is out of playoff contention before the ASG every year. They may still love the team and know the players, but it doesnt mean they are gonna be loud and boisterous at all the games, especially when they are meaningless.

Now that being said, I lost my voice for a day after Saturday’s game, and I do in fact know what number Nick Markakis is, so my comment doesnt reflect on me.

Your last post you said you feel no connection to the O’s and now it’s us fans? Wow, every game I have been to this year I have cheered and so has pretty much every fan around me. I actually find it hard to belive the most general fan doesn’t know Nick’s number when it’s on my back and thousands of other fans at the game. baseball is 9 innings and yes it’s ok to talk to your friends when at the game about something else.

Give me a beer. Give me a dog. Give me nice weather. Give me a win.

Who cares what other people are doing at the game. As long as I get those things I’m golden.

You are going to get those casual, know-nothings, at the game whether your team is good or bad.

Compared to 2008, I think that we have more fans at the Yard, and I also believe that the fans are more passionate. Baseball has been rising in popularity over the last five years. Now that football basically sells out every game, your “general” fan has been slowly coming back to baseball.

When you have a gathering of over 20,000 people, a lot of them are going to be idiots. We had over 40,000 at Wieters debut. The extra 15-20 K that went BECAUSE of Wieters definitely knew who he was and stood up and cheered for him. That doesn’t sound like an uninformed fanbase.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I personally always know the score of the game. I also always know the number to everyone on the field at a given time, because I keep score. I’ve noticed a lot more people keeping score this year, in fact. But anyway, when I go to games, I don’t ask people if they know the score of the game or if they can tell me a players number. That’s just rude. And even if they don’t know the players number and I do, it doesn’t make me a better person.

The team was good in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. When the team’s good, the atmosphere will improve.

Philly has a great atmosphere now…but they just won the world series are in first place, etc.

The Vet was not exactly a hoppin’ place in 2002 and 2003 (outside all the “end of the Vet” promotions they did), and even CBP was pretty quiet at times in ‘04 and ’05 when they were underacheiving (or maybe just not acheiving…I don’t quite remember the expectations for those teams).

But, the Orioles need to win, and they need to have a pretty sustained run of competence. Attendance didn’t seem to pick up much ’05, because no one thought it would last.

Orioles fans are still out there, and still following the team, but the team needs to convince them that it’s worth coming out more often.

On one hand, I think it’s bandwagon to only go to games when your team is good…but on the other, I think it’s pretty obvious that more fans will choose to go more often if they think they’ve got a good shot at seeing a win, or if the O’s are in a pennant race.

Loud people are usually assholes.

if you want loud and obnoxious you can get it then

but this argument is dumb. Since when did loud equate passion?

Sure, the diehards may be the only ones coming out to the park now, but that’s what happens when you lose for 10+ years. You’re complaining about an empty park now with fans with no passion, but when we’re making a playoff run, are you going to complain about all of the obnoxious fairweather fans?

Instead of worrying about an empty park (that’s the job of the front office) and the attitude of fans, just be content in your own fandom and stick to what @Johnny_S said.

I’ll throw my two cents in –
Who cares what other people are doing at the game?
Just enjoy the “event”, because everything is an “event” now , not just a game.

is that the orioles are lacking that fan motivation. Like cheer when there is two strikes on a batter and not have a score board tell you to do it. If it weren’t for the score board telling you to get loud no one would be loud at all. Not all people that yell are ass holes. We need thoughs fans like my self that when jim johnson or charlie brown in the game get to cheer for them. If you sitting by the bullpen yell out GO GET UM GEORGE OR JIM. I bet you when fans cheer them on leaving the pen they get pumped up. I was sitting out there the other day and he started to leave the pen and i belted out GO GET UM JIMMY and everyone looked at me like i had three heads it was rediculous and i mostly blame it on the losing but there is no reason why people can’t get more into the game.

All’s im saying is that the orioles are lacking that fan motivation. Like cheer when there is two strikes on a batter and not have a score board tell you to do it. If it weren’t for the score board telling you to get loud no one would be loud at all. Not all people that yell are ass holes. We need thoughs fans like my self that when jim johnson or charlie brown come in the game cheer for them. If your sitting by the bullpen yell out GO GET UM GEORGE OR JIM. I bet you when fans cheer for them when they are leaving the pen they get pumped up. I was sitting out there the other day and Jim Johnson started to leave the pen and i belted out GO GET UM JIMMY and everyone looked at me like i had three heads it was rediculous and i mostly blame it on the losing but there is no reason why people can’t get more into the game.

Kids always re read what you have wrote and use spell check.