Comments on: Don’t believe the Times Union’s attendance for Saturday’s KO at the TU http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/ Kevin Marshall on MMA, Boxing, and Pro Wrestling Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:33:00 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: More on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights from the Times Union Center: the Attendance was Dreadful - Mixed Marshall Arts | Mixed Marshall Arts http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-132 More on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights from the Times Union Center: the Attendance was Dreadful - Mixed Marshall Arts | Mixed Marshall Arts Mon, 21 May 2012 18:55:47 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-132 [...] themselves look like assholes. But attendance was nowhere near 3,500 for the first event (click HERE and HERE if you want to revisit that debacle), and to say it only dropped by about fifty people as [...] [...] themselves look like assholes. But attendance was nowhere near 3,500 for the first event (click HERE and HERE if you want to revisit that debacle), and to say it only dropped by about fifty people as [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-86 Anonymous Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:32:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-86 Reply to come, but on that last part: wow. I’ll keep that in mind when wondering why I never got a phone call back from that job at the Times Union I never have and never will apply for. Because I’m not a professional journalist. "Obviously." HAR HAR HAR Reply to come, but on that last part: wow. I’ll keep that in mind when wondering why I never got a phone call back from that job at the Times Union I never have and never will apply for. Because I’m not a professional journalist.

“Obviously.” HAR HAR HAR

]]> By: Guest http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-84 Guest Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-84 http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Boxing-crowd-was-on-money-3305766.php your point refuted - and probably safe to say you won't be working for the TU any time soon. http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Boxing-crowd-was-on-money-3305766.php
your point refuted – and probably safe to say you won’t be working for the TU any time soon.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-83 Anonymous Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-83 "If you're going to accuse someone of being lazy or distracted you should get the name right." Hey, bud, your logic detector is broken! Either way, the difference is I'm on a for-free blog and he's a paid journalist for the biggest paper in the region, but more importantly his name is not nearly as important to the piece. To even try to equate a slip-up typo with reporting a ridiculously inaccurate number and important fact to a story shows you're either an ignoramus or just trolling. But fixed anyway, pal. He was still either lazy or distracted, and wrong. Point stands. “If you’re going to accuse someone of being lazy or distracted you should get the name right.” Hey, bud, your logic detector is broken!

Either way, the difference is I’m on a for-free blog and he’s a paid journalist for the biggest paper in the region, but more importantly his name is not nearly as important to the piece. To even try to equate a slip-up typo with reporting a ridiculously inaccurate number and important fact to a story shows you’re either an ignoramus or just trolling.

But fixed anyway, pal.

He was still either lazy or distracted, and wrong. Point stands.

]]> By: guest http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-82 guest Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-82 It's Wilkin not Wilkinson. If you're going to accuse someone of being lazy or distracted you should get the name right. It’s Wilkin not Wilkinson. If you’re going to accuse someone of being lazy or distracted you should get the name right.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-81 Anonymous Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-81 Yeah, that's what I stated in the above post, too. Still doesn't explain why media is representing the number as actual attendance (other than out of laziness). Yeah, that’s what I stated in the above post, too. Still doesn’t explain why media is representing the number as actual attendance (other than out of laziness).

]]> By: Chuck Miller http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/02/06/dont-believe-the-times-unions-attendance-for-saturdays-ko-at-the-tu/#comment-80 Chuck Miller Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:13:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/?p=837#comment-80 In my work with various minor league sports teams and associations, I know that there will be two different types of "attendance" figures in play. One will count the average fannies in the seats, and one will count the tickets sold or purchased or "papered" around. It's been going on at the downtown arena for the past twenty years and two name changes ago, when the Albany Choppers hockey team would announce 4,500 fans in the building and someone could count heads and estimate that maybe 250 people showed up. In my work with various minor league sports teams and associations, I know that there will be two different types of “attendance” figures in play. One will count the average fannies in the seats, and one will count the tickets sold or purchased or “papered” around. It’s been going on at the downtown arena for the past twenty years and two name changes ago, when the Albany Choppers hockey team would announce 4,500 fans in the building and someone could count heads and estimate that maybe 250 people showed up.

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