[NU Sports] NU at Wrigley

[Dennis W. Brandt]

<Just the way every Yankee and Red Sox game in Baltimore is a home team for 
them.

<Many thing conspired to cause the drop in Camden Yards attendance, changes 
in the tax laws helped cut down the number of business meetings that were 
held at the yards - when the park was new you could take people to the park 
and you didn't run afoul of the various rules against "entertaining" 
government buyers.

<Had the Birds maintained a winning tradition (and maybe Cal Ripkin for 
another few years) the falloff of attendance might not have been so bad. Mr. 
Angelos' Sports Network, on every Comcast cable system in HD didn't help 
either.

<Last night, on a beautiful evening with the Twins in town, the birds drew a 
whopping 13,000 people, about a quarter of those who watched on TV.

And if the Orioles found the latest round of Brooks, Frank, and Boog and 
that marvelous starting pitching they used to have, the seats will fill up 
again.  People will not pay to watch losing teams.