Good morning, baseball fans!
We’re two games into the 2023 San Francisco Giants season at Oracle Park and there is already hand-wringing about the attendance numbers. Because of course there is.
Friday’s home opener was a sellout, with the final attendance listed as 40,711. However, Saturday was not (35,126). And the attendance police are already on patrol, pointing that out at every opportunity to shame Giants fans for not selling out every game.
First of all, I have found that any hand-wringing about attendance since 2020 is willfully ignoring the fact that a lot of people still don’t want to or literally cannot be in a crowded place, since the pandemic is still a thing.