I have reached rock bottom, and it is a hot bleacher in section 314 in the right-field pavilion of Dodger Stadium.More at that top link.
I am sitting here Wednesday afternoon introducing myself to everyone else in this giant section.
All six of them.
"It's sad," says Jose Haro.
"It's lonely," says Javier Casillas.
In a season of bad, it's the worst. The crowd at this midday game between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres appears to be the smallest in a season of empty.
It's the smallest crowd I've seen in my 23 years of following the Dodgers. It might be the smallest crowd in the 49-year history of Dodger Stadium.
The official attendance is 27,767, the second-lowest of the season, but that accounts for the number of tickets sold, not the number of actual people in seats.
This is surely the worst. This is surely not even close. Eleven sections are completely vacant. Most of the pavilion sections are in single digits. The left-field corner section, previously known as Mannywood, is Deadwood, inhabited by precisely 20 people.
Well, it'd be a different experience, that's for sure.
