Originally Posted by
Enscheff
Winning trumps all when it comes to attendance. Fact.
Yes, attendance would have declined if the Braves were playing as projected. To argue any other side is nothing more than being contrarian in an attempt to prove some point that nobody cares about. Southcrack does this often, usually centered around semantics, and never actually proves anything one way or the other...that way nobody can later claim he was "wrong". He then acts like he never asserted an actual point, therefore he wasn't "wrong"...yet continues to argue...semantics...over and over.
The point is the winning probably allows the Braves to add at the deadline, and allows them to project attendance that supports a $120M+ payroll in 2019. That would not have happened for a 78 win team. Period.
This season has pretty much been the "if everything goes right" scenario we sometimes see in year 4 of rebuilds, and it bodes very well for the team as long as AA doesn't screw it up by blowing resources on a SP that will break down and return zero value.