Pittsburgh is a great city, and their sports teams have been great too. As a result, they have good fans, fans that generally support their teams. The Pirates became a hot ticket, particularly when they were a playoff team in 2013, 2014, and 2015. They had an MVP center fielder and a team around him that was winning 90 plus games every year. In 2015 particularly, they had a team good enough to contend for a World Series. Of course the Pirates didn't do enough to bolster that squad through trades and signings, and they didn't win. They began to drop off in 2016, and it looks like 2017 is a dead end too.
Which leaves them here:
The fading attendance at Pirates games isn't just presumably hurting the organization economically. It's hurting low-wage employees at PNC Park.
Dozens of ushers have been told that their services will be required only sparingly for the remainder of the 2017 regular season, as attendance is expected to plummet in September.
I guess this is the economics of the job, but think about this from the Pirates perspective- they missed the boat! I still believe they should have been in on the big pitching arms in 2015 (Hamels, Cueto, etc.), because they had the prospects to get them, and that could have won them the World Series. They didn't, and now the team is declining. Their owner was simply too cheap to go for it all. I'd be an angry fan if I were a Pirates fan.
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