(10-16-2015 07:42 AM)panama Wrote:  

(10-15-2015 11:05 AM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(10-15-2015 08:01 AM)FLEagle Wrote:  

(10-15-2015 07:36 AM)soar#417 Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 10:01 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  What's to be bitter about? Braves games will be far more accessible to far greater-# of fans, and the neighborhoods around Turner Field will be much better off.

We wont get into this on here, but no, the Braves games will not be more accessible so that has to be sarcasm. The neighborhoods around Turner Field have the potential to be better off if the city makes the right choice on who should take over the land...imo that would be GSU, but we'll see. Still laughing at you thinking its more accessible in its new location hahahahahahahaha

By accessible, he means closer to the yuppies in the suberbs. I don't know any folks in the city, myself included, that will be traveling to Cobb county to watch the braves lose

AKA the people that attend baseball games. So all OTP folks that attend baseball games are yuppies, interesting? Since it perfectly ok to blatantly stereotype, is that worse than being metrosexual, ghetto or hipster? I never noticed many of that type in the crowd. The truth is the Braves got no love from ATL and the vast majority of fans come from the burbs. I really don't watch baseball so I don't care but it was a no brainer for the Braves. Will it be easier to attend TBD. But I don't see how it will not be having fans split four ways instead of 95% trying all get on 75/85 to get to and leave, not to mention a lot will just be able to avoid the interstate all together unlike now.

The Braves fan base left the building circa 1997. Once we left AFCS and the price of a beer doubled, the real fan stayed home. There are thousands of "fans" that never go to a game. They watch on TV regularly. They talk about the team. They don't go to games. It's too expensive. They will get a bump when they open the new ball park but then it will go back down to half empty because Braves games are a place to be seen when they are doing well. This is not Philly or Chicago.

This is an interesting post. I think it well defines the generalities of Atlanta's population as a whole. This was (is) one of the main issues that the Falcons, the Hawks, and the Braves have had to, and still do struggle with, and something that GT and definitely GSU have issues with as well. I believe GSU has plenty of fans...but like the pro teams above not many of them come out to actually support the team unless there has been a build up of success. So it's almost like a bandwagon effect:
winning = more fan support. It's not necessarily a bad thing depending on how you think about it.