No matter how long I keep looking at the baseball numbers for a downtown stadium, they don't make sense. Attendance is now about 3,500 a game. Let's say moving downtown could increase it to 4,500. If you say, well, that would be 300,000 people downtown over a five-month period, that would be one thing. But it won't be. It will be maybe 3,000 of the same people coming over and over again and a few thousand more who come occasionally.
And look at the number of Grand Wayne visitors. If we take them at their word that expansion has increased the numbers by about 100,000 a year, aren't we talking about the same kind of numbers envisioned for the Wizards? And these are mostly different people, not the same crowd coming over and over again. If there is magic in a certain number of downtown visits, shouldn't we have seen something already?
