LSB 2009 Attendance Poll?

by ravscloC on Sep 19, 2009 12:29 AM CDT Comment 74 comments

As the premier destination on the web for die-hard Ranger fans, I'm curious as to how often LSBers actually get out to Rangers Ballpark throughout the seasons. It seems game-day threads are always busy, but how many go to games?? I try to get out to as many games as possible, but I think I set a new personal record this year with 14 games! If you can remember, please post the number of games you've been to this year, and feel free to count any future games you're planning to attend (vs LAA and TB).

It'd be cool to see how die-hard we all really are...

For the record, I'd love to be a season ticket holder, but between games never selling out and my sporadic work schedule, it's just so easy and convenient to buy tickets on game day at the stadium whenever I'm free.

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Unfortunately on 2

between finishing my last degree, the wedding and my knee surgery I was down by about 8 games this year

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by laxtonto on Sep 19, 2009 1:05 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Counted my stubs. I've attended 21 games this season

Most of those are cheap-seats that were never actually sat in

Didn’t get to see any walk-offs

As of now the highlight of the year is Fuckholz getting thrown out at home… and probably banging on the bleachers for the O’Day chant, which had so much promise

Low-point of the season was last Friday. Sitting through that shit just to see a ninth-inning rally get stopped by the rain

by oc on Sep 19, 2009 1:07 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Correction, 23

Forgot the two double-headers

by oc on Sep 19, 2009 1:09 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I assume the Bucholz play...

…was also Frankie’s horrible inning right?? The one where Murphy played the ball off the wall perfectly and we almost escaped with a W if it weren’t for VMart… UGH…Man that game pissed me off, don’t know if that’s my highlight of the season. Perhaps most gut-wrenching loss of the season.

by ravscloC on Sep 19, 2009 1:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That play gets extra points though because I celebrated by accidently punching a Red Sox fan in the arm,

My follow-through went clear across the aisle

by oc on Sep 19, 2009 1:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm at

a little over 60 right now – I’ll have to count stubs later. Planning to go to all the remaining home games.

We have full season tickets – I know we skipped all six Boston games, and two of the Dodgers games, plus random other games we couldn’t make it to.

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by lisa w on Sep 19, 2009 1:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Why skip the Boston games?

Tough crowd?

by oc on Sep 19, 2009 2:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The first series, yes

Second time we were out of town.

by lisa w on Sep 19, 2009 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Going to game 2 tomorrow...

Hard to make it up to Dallas from Austin, especially with getting married in June and blahblahTHEECONOMYblahblah

by fightingengineer on Sep 19, 2009 1:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Probably been to 15-20 this year...saw Face's walkoff against the Royals

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by TxStCa on Sep 19, 2009 1:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

well hell.. lets see

i;m a full season ticket holder.

this year i did better than last year i think. I went to about over 40 games… maybe more. I’d need to do the math and figure what all games my tickets went to. Over all most tickets got used i think. . then if you consider i gave some of my tickets to friends and other family members.

2010? 2011? 2012? 2013? 2014? 2015?

by hurlerhurley on Sep 19, 2009 2:08 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

now that i think about it

might be over 20 tickets that never got to the game. I need to look into this and do some math on the tickets i had this year,

2010? 2011? 2012? 2013? 2014? 2015?

by hurlerhurley on Sep 19, 2009 2:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Only 1 this year (@ NYY)

Unfortunately, I live in CT so I don’t get to many games. I would have gone to plenty more if I had the money to afford going to the new Yankee Stadium and Fenway more often.

by cmkelly29 on Sep 19, 2009 8:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

only 2

I was at the Memorial day massacre by the Yanks and the Houston game where Pudge got a standing O.

I didn't know what a mancrush was. Derek Holland showed me.

by DerekSTheRed on Sep 19, 2009 9:28 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I've been to two this year

I usually am only able to make it to 2-3 games a year.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.

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by Gdawg on Sep 19, 2009 9:36 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Two for me

Opening day and last night, which is fitting that I went to the start of the season and the game that likely ended it.

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by rentz on Sep 19, 2009 10:01 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

We live 150+ miles away

and we make 12 to 15 games each year. This year, we have made 11 and it would have been 14, but missed the Friday rainout and couldn’t wait around for the 5:05 start on Sunday for the other two games. So our daughter and husband used the tickets. I also purchased play-off tickets.

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by pro82 on Sep 19, 2009 10:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I believe I went to 15

I had tickets for that rained out Friday game last week that I haven’t traded in yet — at this point I don’t really want to.

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by Dirk Diggler on Sep 19, 2009 10:12 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i've been to 11 and plan on going on the 27th as well

i live 120 miles away. i was planning on going tomorrow but i’m too pissed at the ineptitude of offense to even waste my gas to go see them

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by dustinvandeman on Sep 19, 2009 10:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

12 for me.

"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball

by rangerdanger on Sep 19, 2009 10:32 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh snap,

plus one in Houston and one in NYY..(the middle game, the loss, of course)

"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball

by rangerdanger on Sep 19, 2009 1:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Four fo rme....

and that’s two more than my personal best.

is a fan of Derek Freaking Holland!

by ortonius on Sep 19, 2009 10:32 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

1 and going to 1 more.

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Sep 19, 2009 10:35 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I've made it to six games thus far

all have been wins, so if anyone wants to buy me tickets for the remaining 16 games, we may have a chance…

I’ve been to about 20 Cats games, though, (including playoffs) and they’ve already been eliminated, so who knows..

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by WhipSmart on Sep 19, 2009 10:45 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have 6 tickets to Sundays game

and I can’t even go. Give them away for $20 if you can come get them. I live a bit north of Austin. Included is a free parking pass.

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by rodcarew on Sep 19, 2009 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh man

I wish I could, but can’t make the trip… danke for the offer, though…

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by WhipSmart on Sep 19, 2009 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I haven’t been to a Rangers game since Sept. 26th, 2007.
And the only reason I went is because I was given free tix on the 3rd row
behind homeplate along with a free parking voucher.

by shroomer on Sep 19, 2009 10:46 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I've been to 5 this year

went 4-1. The one loss being the Yankee Memorial day game. The highlight was seeing Lackey thrown out on his second pitch.

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by sprite on Sep 19, 2009 10:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

10 games this year

"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."

"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"

by Josey Wales on Sep 19, 2009 11:30 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Along with the 10 games thru the season

I went to Spring Training for the 7th year in a row.

Caught 3 Ranger games out there as well.

"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."

"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"

by Josey Wales on Sep 19, 2009 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

12 Games this year

live 2 hrs away otherwise id have gone to way more.
was there for my’s walk off against the royals
and the whole nyy series, driving back and forth each nite was a pain , even moreso since i went with a nyy fan

last 2 times i attended games were rained out , no more games for me this year

heres to next season

by icouldusesomebaseball on Sep 19, 2009 11:36 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Do all 3 in Arizona count?

by Too Legit To quit on Sep 19, 2009 11:59 AM CDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

134

Counting all the away games as well of course.

by SaltyGoesYard on Sep 19, 2009 12:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

are you serious?

i guess you work for the team or something?

by Fireal20 on Sep 19, 2009 1:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lewin, is that you?

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by rangers85 on Sep 19, 2009 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't keep stubs.

But I’ve been to over 20; I’d say about 25. I’d like to go to more, but it’s tough to find people that want to go as much as I do.

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by FuturePants on Sep 19, 2009 12:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd say somewhere 10-15...

Pretty well made it to 2/3 or so of the Friday night games, plus a few Wednesday night games, as well as July 4 and Memorial Day.

I was also in attendance for all 3 rain outs this year, plus another game that had a 2+ hour rain delay. So I’ve sat at the stadium this year for about 10 hours with the tarp on the field.

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by rangers85 on Sep 19, 2009 1:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

7 or 8 times

The company my mother works for has season tickets, and I get them when they go unclaimed. The team’s success this year has been a catch-22 for me. Last year I got those tickets about 12 or 13 times.

That's why they call them business sox

by egriffey on Sep 19, 2009 1:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

1

Which is 1 more than the previous 2 years combined.

Suck on that Kinsler!!!

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by DaheelzCM on Sep 19, 2009 2:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Do you live far away? Is this a stance you've taken with ownership?

by oc on Sep 19, 2009 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I live fairly close

Up near Frisco. It’s a hike but not too bad if I really wanted to go. I just have no desire to go out there. 10 years of suck and what I perceive to be an owner that doesn’t give a rats ass have done that.

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by DaheelzCM on Sep 19, 2009 4:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Damn reply

LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

by DaheelzCM on Sep 19, 2009 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i think ive been to 5

opening day, an angels game where were up 10-2 and left and almost blew it (i was with friends, i rarely leave early but they were ready) june 8th for my 21st and newberg night. also that dreadful memorial day game

i live in allen, bout the fastest we can get there is 40-45 minutes and thats if it’s on like a sunday and it’s completely empty on the highway. normally it’s at least an hour

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by studcrackers on Sep 19, 2009 5:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Went to Spring Training and caught three games (I think).

And I’ve been to around a dozen games at RBIA this season.

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by ghtd36 on Sep 19, 2009 8:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I live in Shreveport and won't make it to any games this year.

Unfortunately I took some summer classes and then free tickets from voting weren’t in good spots thsi year money wise.

Hank Blalock hasn't played in a game since Sept. 6, and is hitting just .182 in 99 at-bats since Aug. 1.

by Ranger121032 on Sep 19, 2009 8:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Around 15 to 20 games.

Opening day, all the rainouts and May 2nd when it was storming bad and people told me to come back home. We had to wait awhile for the game but we won.

by bruce182 on Sep 19, 2009 9:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

No games...

but I think I have a pretty good excuse. :)

by venturafearsnolan on Sep 19, 2009 9:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

oakand

i live in oakland and ive been to like 4 rangers game up here at the mac and i am going to the 4 this week, plus i went to spring training so it really does bother me that people living in north texas wont go to any games but will pile on the rangers for this recent skid, baseball is cheap so dont say you cant afford it

the red baron

by jp182 on Sep 19, 2009 10:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

15-20

by Brett Perryman on Sep 19, 2009 10:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I went...

to my first 5 games in Arlington this year. Good times.

Much better than going to see them in Oakland like I had for the last 15+ years.

Wish I could go more often, but the cost/time to travel makes it difficult for me. I will probably be sticking to my baseball package on Directv in the coming years. Maybe once every 4 or 5 years I’ll try and take a trip out that way.

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by slc ranger on Sep 19, 2009 11:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

15-20

by blueballlefty on Sep 20, 2009 1:00 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

about 20

I have full season tickets which I split with a few friends. Went to about 12-15 in my own seats and expect to go to 3 more, plus I went to about another half dozen or so in other seats with groups plus one game in a suite. I also have a partial Riders plan and went to about a half dozen of those so we’ve had no shortage of live baseball attendance in our household.

by Dalman on Sep 20, 2009 7:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

comment to ravscloC

If you are going to go to 14 games it’s hard to believe that you are better off buying tickets at the park on game day which is about the most expensive possible way to do it. Between the significant discount the Rangers give to season ticket holders, the exchange policy that only blacks out maybe a dozen games, and the fact that you can even use dead tickets for most games for a $1 fee, its hard not to come out ahead with a season ticket plan, not to mention that you’ll have better seats in whatever section you buy in..

by Dalman on Sep 20, 2009 7:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

35+ games gone to

Plus we were the ones that started the “o’day” chant that sent the crowd into a tizzy and tag and the ticket were all jazzed about when that went down.

Our crew is deadicated. We have about 10-15 peeps who are religious about it. We Only missed 2 $1 dog nights, next year will be even better.

I can't help it. I’m an asshole.
-brettgardner on Jul 7, 2009 10:55 PM EDT

by Jayslick on Sep 20, 2009 11:09 AM CDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

And to get down to specifics

We don’t spend a ton of $$, we buy $3 kids tickets, we use the “get in where u fit in” policy of seating, we know parking peeps so we never pay for premium game rates and carpool. We bring gameday backpacks with bottled waters, peanuts, radios and snacks. We do it cheap as shit and we do it right. It’s taken a while to learn the ropes but I think we got our system down. Veteran adventurers I tell ya.

I can't help it. I’m an asshole.
-brettgardner on Jul 7, 2009 10:55 PM EDT

by Jayslick on Sep 20, 2009 11:18 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

10-15

We had a mini-plan this year, but unfortunately I did not attend all of those games. Fortunately, I was able to attend a Ranger game for the first time outside of Arlington at Anaheim in July. (The only game we lost in the series)

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by Joker'z on Sep 20, 2009 11:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Three

got a homerun ball sitting under the homerun porch. Fans yelling for me to throw it back…. but I gave it to my 5 yr old daughter who was there with me

saw Jack Ingram concert after one game.

and was there for the early Lackey ejection.

by red shoe ranger on Sep 20, 2009 3:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Two

Both against Minnesota on my road trip back in August, sandwiched by a game in OK City and two more in Frisco.

Managed to catch Pudge’s return debut and performances by Holland and Feliz, though, so it was an excitement-filled 2 games!

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by DenverRanger on Sep 20, 2009 5:43 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll see my first one this year tomorrow in OAK

Too bad Millwood is pitching and Feliz pitched today. I’ll see the one guy I don’t want to see, and miss the one I do.

"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."

by NorCalRangersFan on Sep 21, 2009 12:35 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

1 - opening day

Being 800 miles away puts a crimp on things.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Sep 21, 2009 10:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wyoming is only 800 miles away?

Crazy…seems farther than that

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Sep 21, 2009 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Basically only one state in the way

It’s about 450 miles to the TX border from here.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Sep 21, 2009 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I just looked at a map to remind myself

Crazy. From my house in Arlington it’s 1,000 miles to Tempe, Az (where I went to school). Crazy to think Wyoming is closer than that.

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Sep 21, 2009 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Weird how that is

I’ve met people that have lived in Denver for decades and never driven 90 miles north to Wyoming. Which is fine since the only people I see while camping are annoying folks from CO. I’m guessing there are only 15-20 people on this board that have ever been to WY and most just went to Yellowstone.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Sep 21, 2009 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I would fall into the Yellowstone group

I’ve been to Jackson Hole as well though

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by Dirk Diggler on Sep 21, 2009 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've been to Jackson Hole

big fan of that place.

Quiet, beautiful scenery, tasty elk .. I could get used to that.

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by Chase Irwin on Sep 22, 2009 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

we were in cheyanne last year, the capital

its like twices as big as stephenville

southern Wyoming looked a lot like mad max beyond the thunderdome only with antelope. friggin wasteland, my friends. yellowstone and the actual non post apoc setting is pretty tittles though.

I can't help it. I’m an asshole.
-brettgardner on Jul 7, 2009 10:55 PM EDT

by Jayslick on Sep 21, 2009 5:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You should have called as that's where I live

In fact, I work just a few blocks from the capitol (I know – no one knows my name). Yes, I-80 west of Laramie is pretty desolate but a good portion of the state is nice. Yellowstone and Jackson are a little too touristy for my taste but that’s just me being an elitist native. I do an OK amount of tent camping in the mountains to fish so I prefer to avoid folks while on a three day weekend.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Sep 21, 2009 7:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

5

No good reasons, though I would love to blame it on Hicks. I do live a while away but that can always be overcome. Just haven’t been to as many as I would like. Going to try to double that next season but have to start early before the wife starts complaining about the heat.

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by Suicide Prince on Sep 21, 2009 11:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

live in Tulsa

this past year i went to 1 rangers game, 4 drillers games (all in tulsa)…and 1 cards game. next year i will try to get to a redhawk game

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by gossamer on Sep 21, 2009 3:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Haven't been to a game in over two years

Being a musician is not a recipe for getting rich, as rewarding as it is. I also don’t go to movies, and I haven’t been to the symphony or opera in two years. Used to do much more of all of those, but a mortgage and baby changed priorities. I’m a bigger fan of my daughter than I am of Kinsler.

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by t ball on Sep 21, 2009 11:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

About 10 games ..

Now that I’m back in the area, my attendance should double next year.

Went to dollar dog nights, saw a big W over the Rays (sitting next to Longo on 3B), saw us whip Toronto at home.

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by Chase Irwin on Sep 22, 2009 1:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

10 - got 1 more to go

so 11.

wanted to make it out more, but couldn’t for unforeseen circumstances

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by NothinG on Sep 23, 2009 11:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have been to 4

Sadly one of those was the early rain-out against the A’s late April on Dollar Hot Dog night, and calling Lubbock home, while going to school at ACU in Abilene, makes it tough.

by RangersSD on Sep 23, 2009 7:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs