Here are attendance figures for two recent events at Chase Field: 49,236 and 38,830.
One is the number of people who attended game four of the 2011 MLB National League Division Series, and the other is the number of people who attended Saturday’s Monster Energy AMA Supercross races.
Can you guess which figure goes with which event?
I’ll give you a hint: The one with more Famous Stars and Straps brand shirts in the stands drew a larger audience.
That’s right. Twenty guys riding bikes in the dirt drew almost 10,400 more fans than the Diamondbacks in their postseason game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Now, I realize there might be some outside factors contributing to the discrepancy. For example, children dragging their parents, bros looking for that special bro “gardening tool” or even the fact that Supercross is a one-time event, while baseball lasts six months.
Regardless, I still find the enormous gap saddening.
Before, I thought Arizona sports fans weren’t all that into Arizona sports. Now I realize that’s not true – they’re just not into the D-backs all that much.
Maybe if Baxter rode a motorcycle over the mound and got some air, more people would visit Chase Field to see the sport and team the stadium was built for.
