tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13652090.post4208249397024313305..comments2023-06-08T08:10:31.126-05:00Comments on Husker Mike's Blasphemy: CWS 2008: Where'd Everybody Go?Husker Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05764508184267042143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13652090.post-12235868679873752782008-06-28T12:20:00.000-05:002008-06-28T12:20:00.000-05:00If there is a big problem with attendance, then ho...If there is a big problem with attendance, then how did <A HREF="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3461259&name=ncaa_baseball" REL="nofollow">the series set its all-time attendance record?</A> Either the NCAA is inflating its statistics, or someone is blowing a few empty seats in the stands way out of proportion. (My money's on both.)Joshua Plutahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04295317631084821474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13652090.post-80053100163561413542008-06-24T08:14:00.000-05:002008-06-24T08:14:00.000-05:00Completely disagree.Although weather and gas are f...Completely disagree.<BR/><BR/>Although weather and gas are factors...this is the city's brightest shining event. Although a large contingent of out-of-town folks come to games, 85% of the series is local. <BR/><BR/>I don't think the stadium debate had much to do with it, because all but a few South O yokels were for the plan to move downtown...if anything, it would make people want to go to Rosenblatt MORE...just to soak it all in.<BR/><BR/>No, this is on the NCAA 100% pure and simple. Their Nazi-esque lust for greed and power has done exactly what they've done to every other championship event....ruined it for the sake of money and TV coverage. I've told you and others this for nearly a decade...and I'll say it to your readers again: The NCAA doesn't give a rat's ass about Omaha. They could care less about "tradition", sunshine, lollipops and Tom Shatel's annual trip down CWS memory lane, where everybody holds hands, says hello to each otehr on the street, and looks like they came out of a Norman Rockwell painting.<BR/><BR/>The NCAA will do ANYTHING to increase their earning power, and make themselves look better. Look no further than the "don't blame it on us" clause they gave Mayor Fehey back when the whole stadium debate started.<BR/><BR/>So when you look at it, it's pretty easy to see: People don't want to see the 7 of the same 14 teams every year, listening to the same songs on the organ, seeing the same people, eating the same things year after year after year. It gets old...it gets stale...and the fact that a power-hungry group of well dressed (and yet somwhow beloved) thugs is holding the city hostage.<BR/><BR/>Good thing we've got only another 28 years until we have some bargaining power back.A Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518175756747531986noreply@blogger.com