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He’s just the basketball coach. Why would you expect him to have any control over who plays on the basketball team? That’s just crazy talk.

But Neil Young rocks (in the free world)

They have less daylight because they are further north, but they actually have a later sunset than eastern Washington due to their location within the time zone.

Uggh. I must be the only person who thinks that is one of the worst covers of all time. It literally hurts my ears to listen to it.

Why do they have to lawyer up? Should be pretty simple to declare to the court that you have no interest in contesting the will without needing a lawyer.

Celsius. And average high. NYC’s average high is only a few degrees warmer at 29 degrees while the SF average high in summer is only 21 (84 vs 79 vs 70 if you need to think in fahrenheit).

I can’t believe how many comments I had to read to get to this. It definitely jumped out at me as I read the article.

Why can’t you just show up and buy a ticket if there are still some left? How is it different than pre-assigned seating, when you could still run into the same problem of others buying all the tickets before you got to the theater? (We used to show up hours early to buy tickets for popular shows and then return to get…

Is that paid attendance or people through the turnstyle?

I am pretty sure that is paid attendance not people through the gates. And the reason it was higher in 2017 was that was the week they played Pittsburgh. It was actually just a shade lower than when they hosted Pittsburgh in week 9 of 2016.

Of course you know best and I should take your word that the protests have nothing to do with lower attendance in Baltimore over that of the Ravens’ fans who have season tickets and have heard the complaints and have seen the open seats pop up in their section after the protests started. Those other things are…

There is definitely some truth to that when it comes to TV ratings, but less so when it comes to season ticket holders not showing up for games that they paid for. It will be interesting to see what the last two Ravens home games look like with them fighting for a playoff spot.

Thanks. That makes a ton of sense and I definitely don’t dispute that. But IMO, the article and people in comments are overly dismissive of the idea that any drop in attendance was related to the protests. I made another comment that noted that I have friends who are Ravens season ticket holders who definitely saw…

Which in turn was in response to a comment directed at the Ravens president.

I feel like I should understand what you meant with that, but I just don’t. Can I blame it on the Friday before a long weekend?

Pretty sure those are paid attendance numbers, not the number of people who actually show up to the game

How does the Ravens president control resale prices?

Are you really arguing that white folks in America aren’t overly sensitive about uppity black people? Is it really ridiculous to think that white conservatives wouldn’t cut off their nose to spite their face over some perceived slight? They did just cheer on the President for passing a tax bill that screws them over…

It is interesting that this was the one factor for declining attendance that he chose to single out, but he is not entirely wrong either. I have friends who are Ravens season ticket holders who have told me that they have seen a number of people in their section stop coming to games after the players kneeled in London…