Right now, the Orioles stand at 21st in attendance with four home games left. If they keep up their pace of 26,874 a game, they’ll finish just short of 2,200,000. The last time they had an attendance below even 2.4 million was 1988 and you all know what happened that year. While some people blame the fact that the Orioles haven’t had a winning record since 1997 as a reason people aren’t coming out to the ball park, the affect that the Washington Nationals have had has also been signficant.
Now, it was announced that the Orioles are closing up shop in Washington, D.C. Their outlet store, located in Farragut Square, is going to be closed when the lease expires in December. It looks like Orioles merchandise or tickets are no longer in demand in Washington, D.C. Heck, they’re no longer in demand in Baltimore.
Ironically, the Nationals are 20th in attendance, less then 100 fans per game more the the Orioles. That’s a pretty sharp decline from last year when they were 11th in the league in their inaugural season.
